GAMESPOT INTERVIEWS RON GILBERT

Ron Gilbert, creative mind behind Guybrush Threepwood and Grumpy Gamer, was the first interviewee for Gamespot’s new “Designer Threads” feature, where they basically talk to a famous game designer and pick his brain on just about everything they can.

There are a lot of topics discussed in the online interview (which can be augmented with an even longer podcast interview), but what I want to focus on are two things that Gilbert mentioned in the interview;

First, Gilbert mentioned that he’s currently working on a game that he describes as a mix between a RPG and an adventure game. Here’s to hoping he finds a publisher for it, as it’s been too long since his humor has been seen in the gaming world.

Secondly, he mentions that he KNOWS the Secret of Monkey Island, and had originally planned on revealing it in the third game in the series. Unfortunately, when he left LucasArts before the game was made, the secret was lost forever… unless of course, he were to get a chance to make another Monkey Island game;

“I had definitely planned on doing that in the third game, yes. There’s no question about that, but, you know, and then when Jonathan and Larry made Monkey Island III, which is a great game…I think they did a fabulous job on that. They didn’t know what the secret was. I told nobody. So, you know, they weren’t really able to kind of reveal that, but I would love to make another Monkey Island game. If I could make another one…I have this whole story mapped out in my head for how I want to tie it all together with the other two games, kind of bring it all back to the original thing, and that would just be a dream of mine.” -Ron Gilbert

While I’d love nothing more than to see Ron Gilbert and Monkey Island reunited, the realist in me just doesn’t see it happening. Damn you LucasArts!

Check out the full interview and podcast at this link and join me in the Scumm Bar for a mug of Grog ™ when you’re done. You know… sometimes at night, I can still hear the monkeys.