Penny Arcade

But before we even talk about- I know where you're

going, but did you notice Penny Arcade in the credits?

Yes, I did.

For illustration design? So we have a four-person art team.

Senior Director Bob Collin, Art Director Jason Babler, Graphic Designer Tina Huynh, and illustration, just Penny Arcade.

Okay.

I actually, in my first flip through and jumping around to the different places I wanted to touch on, And no Penny Arcade art, like Gabe art, caught my eye.

So maybe on my second flip through, our flip through here together live, we will see where that is.

It's good that I'm on a podcast to talk about it.

Uh, I remember being, I think it was at PAX, the Penny Arcade Expo, which is in Seattle.

I think we were at dinner in the Space Needle when it still had a restaurant.

I might be conflating things, but I remember being in a conversation where someone in either the marketing or management, uh, sort of team at Telltale said, "Hey, we're talking to Lucas about doing a new Monkey Island game." And if memory serves, and, uh, Dave Grossman, if you ever hear this and I'm lying right now, please feel free to yell at-

There's a, there's, like, three video games starring these guys." And then they end up diving down basically what to them seems like a lost media rabbit hole of Sam & Max.

So we, we learned that, like, Poker Night at the time, I think, was an aspiration in cross-media synergy, and it ended up instead just being, like, a kind of funny poker game.

But its existence inside of modern algorithmic video is totally crazy because it is this weird cross-franchise switch track where you come in on TF or Homestar Runner or Sam & Max or I guess Penny Arcade, but probably not a lot of Penny Arcade video, um, or with Poker Night 2, you come in through Venture Bros. Portal- Oh, yeah ...

Army of Darkness or Borderlands, and you come out the other end, and both Poker Night 1 and 2 sent people out, uh, the Sam & Max chute a lot of the time.