I keep ringing but they keep telling me there is no Mr.Gilbert on that number. Perhaps I wrote a wrong one...

Was it 4435? or 4453?.... I simply don't know...


Anyway, I guess I'm not a Monkey Island fan.... I'm just another Steve Purcell's back covers fan.

Any luck yet?

I'm surprised that this artwork isn't in LucasArts vault...

It's very standard that artists own the original art unless there is a buy-out.   I think Steve agreed to paint these for a lower fee if he retained ownership.

If only LucasArts didn't still own the copyright to the image. We could collect all of Purcell's artwork, re-scan them and do a Monkey Island 2 - "Hi Res Edition" :)

Ron: There's quite a big difference from the innocent charm of the first MI game to the cynical, bitter tone of the second one. Was the tone of the second game a reaction to the pressures from LucasArts to do go back and do "the same", but this time make it "bigger and better"?

Sorry, I don't know why I just asked that. Ignore me!

What's the obsession with high-res? I love the quirky low res graphics. :P

High-res isn't everything, but it's better. And if you asked some MIfan from those sites of we-don't-have-nothing-to-do-of-our-lifes-so-we-create-mifan-games-allday type of guy forums, and give them the idea, they can do it. You just have to ask the pictures for purcell. If the game remake is free and made for "educational reasons", LA has nothing to do with it. I believe that purcell has all the artwork at home, if not the original at least a copy. A game like this could feature some of the arworks that even went up on the final version of the game. A game like this could feature also, the cut-scenes that didn't end up on the game...


Well, I can dream, can't I?

Monkey Island Redux!

If it was in LucasArt's vault, they would probably be shoved to the back, and eventually crinkled by some Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Display, or they would be sold to fund a new Star Wars MMORPG.  LucasArts blows...I mean...come on, did anyone see this Thrillville?!
But...I am looking forward to seeing this rumored game for the Wii, which will probably be developed by some other company and only published by LucasArts (which is probably best anyway, all the good Star Wars games aren't even develped by LucasArts).

Sorry, rant over.

Lucas Arts didn't make Thrillville either. Frontier did. They also did the last RollerCoaster Tycoon and Thrillville is an pretty good attempt to get a tycoon game working on a console. Now if Braben will only announce Elite IV we'd be set.

But it belongs in a museum!

If by museum, you mean my front room by the rest of My Scumm collectables, then yes definitely ;)

Wow thats nice. Any idea if its available in poster form or would that dilute its value?

So no luck on that game yet? :(

This is a sad day for gaming (although a great day for Steve Purcell, haha - I love that guy).

I had never seen that painting. Look awesome. Wierd compass in the corner though; was it inspired by an existing one?

I love Purcell's paintings! It's a shame the graphical restrictions of the 1990's didn't let you fully appreciate the full quality of them!

I wonder for how much the front cover would sell...

I'm wondering how much I'd pay for the front cover.

I came second in the bidding :(.

Well hey ... if it's just $4550 you need for your next project, we can talk about it :D

And they say there is no market for adventure game? Look at how much a cover made!

What happened to scummbar.com?

It doesn't exist anymore, but you can visit the new Luabar.com !

so funny :(

Also in the news, USC is opening a new game lab with research interests in storytelling and character emotion expression. http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/13394.html

Monkey Island 2 was one of the best Christmas presents I ever received because of Steve Purcells artwork (and of course the game itself). It was a pleasure opening it and seeing the box and its lovely screenshots (they don't make backgrounds and characters like that anymore). Not only that but the voodoo piracy wheel inside was a little gem. All this before I put in the first of the 11 floppy disks. G'aah, why did I sell my amiga and all its games?

I'm afraid you're wright, I'm a wealthy aristocrat and also a huge Monkey Island fan, and I would like to finance your RPG/Adventure project. Also, I plannig to revive the humongous entretainment, and I'm already mananging to buy the Monkey Island rights from Lucas Arts, for you to make a MI3 or a MI5.

Send me an e-mail and we'll talk about your game, I hope you have a demo, a license atached and a development group!

Dude, don't kid around with something like that.

Come on, don't play with our feelings, it's serious matter we're discussing here mate :S

lua bar is big! meciê! goooooofaahh! gorba is the primnister #%@*9812

Lua bar > Scumm > wii > ps3 > guybrush ! Ron gilbert is a stupid and I know the scret of monkey island!

I DONT WANT TO SAY IT AGAIN ASK STEVEN JOBS TO BUY THE MONKEY ISLAND LICENSE MORON

Funny you should say that...

Word is that Apple are (again) looking to bring games to the Mac platform.  Maybe they're serious this time, maybe they're not.  Either way, I'd love to see them invest in something a little different from someone like Ron.

Apple are always keen to promote themselves as 'innovative'.  I'd love to see them get together with Ron and try something really new...

Exactly, how much does Ron need? i would mind financing him with 20 grands, of course i will need some kind of warranty, and some of the royalties if the game is a huge success

I was about to ask the same thing.  I would love to throw some money down.  Anything I can to get Ron's game off the runway

That's a nice piece of artwork.  Steve Purcell is definitely one of the most talented artists to ever work in the game industry.

He's at Pixar these days, isn't he?  I remember hearing that somewhere..

Yep. At Pixar.

Honestly, you should pioneer by opening an internet fundraising of some sort. That would set a milestone in the game business...

Idea N°1 = sell shares of your future company on e-bay at $20 each

Idea N°2 = pre-sell copies of your game two years before actual publishing

Idea N°3 = make your game open source and use people from this community to make it.

Well, that might sound stupid, but it is better than selling homemade lemonade on your frontyard...

Hell, I think I am tired...

As far as publishing goes, have you tried Mike Wilson's new company "Gamecock?"  From what I understand they have already managed to secure publishing deals with your old "pals" at Crackpot Entertainment... oh wait... those were the MI3 guys, my bad.  Regardless, they (Gamecock) seem to be passionate about publishing indie ventures as opposed to cut & paste properties (ala Activision & EA).  Sure, it is the same guys who published Rune... but at least they're trying.  One cannot say that about the overwhelming majority of Video Game publishers (as i know from first hand experience).

The MI3 guys are:

#1 pretty awesome
#2 co-leader/designer Larry Ahern worked on MI2 :)

Also GOOOO GAMECOCK! Although they should go for something less risky, too.

I'm not really suprised about "Gamecock" as their name.  If you've ever been privy to "The Promised Lot", their "booth" for the E3 back when they were G.O.D., you'll know what I'm talking about.  Wilson and the boys have always been rather risque, hell, G.O.D. Games worked out of an old church in Dallas.  

Off topic?  

Yea.

wish the buyer was rich