The Secrets of Monkey Island – On a Pirate Tour with Pixel Pirates!

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“Do whatever you want, but do cool stuff!” – George Lucas on May 1, 1982.

That was the only goal that George Lucas set for his twenty young, ambitious, funny and badly coiffed game designers as a framework for the development of their own computer games. Lucasfilm Games™ and later LucasArts™ subsequently became a legendary game developer, also through the release of The Secret of Monkey Island™ in 1990. The most famous point'n'click adventure owes its legendary reputation to its wonderfully anachronistic world full of colorful pirates and its Monty Python-inspired humor, but also simply to the fact that it revolutionized an entire genre.

“The Secrets of Monkey Island - A Pirate's Tale with Pixel Pirates!” is a tribute to the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood™, mighty pirate. But it also wants to tell you in great detail how Monkey Island became a milestone in video game history through its unique storytelling. In addition, it offers the opportunity to look back at the turbulent history of LucasArts and Telltale Games, discover recipes for voodoo grog, learn interactive pirate reggae songs, shine at a sophisticated party among 40-year-old geeks and explore sayings that are as sharp as a cutlass (useful for duels or birthday parties).

From the content

• Foreword by Larry Ahern™: Meandering on Monkey Island
• Prologue: The Adventure According to LucasArts™
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Lucasfilm Games™
• Chapter 2: From interactive narrative to Point&Click™
• Chapter 3: Game Engine SCUMM™
• Chapter 4: Reinventing the Adventure™
• Chapter 5: The Secret of Monkey Island™
• Chapter 6: From Lucasfilm Games™ to LucasArts™
• Chapter 7: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge™
• Chapter 8: iMUSE™! Interactive Reggae Music, Man!
• Chapter 9: The End of an Era™
• Chapter 10: The Curse of Monkey Island™
• Chapter 11: Curse of Monkey Island: The Movie™
• Chapter 12: Escape from Monkey Island™
• Chapter 13: The Adventure Game is Dead!™
• Chapter 14: Telltale Games™
• Chapter 15: Tales of Monkey Island™
• Chapter 16: Monkey Island Special Edition™
• Chapter 17: Life and Death of LucasArts™
• Chapter 18: The Secrets of Monkey Island™
• Chapter 19: The Legacy of Monkey Island™
• Chapter 20: Ron Gilbert vs. Disney™
• Chapter 21: Return to Monkey Island™
• Chapter 22: Ron Gilbert reveals the true secret of Monkey Island!!!™
• Chapter 23: Finale: So long…™
• Appendix 1: Insult Duel
• Appendix 2: Mojo Credits
• Appendix 3: Plank of Love

product information

Book, bound, hardcover, 280 pages, 16x24 cm, German. Publisher: Look Behind You.