Return to Monkey Island

That's a big, big piece of work.

Derek and I just started working on a brand new particle system, which is a little bit based on the one we did for Return to Monkey Island.

This game probably won't be very heavily particle-focused, but it's nice to kind of do a new system.

So just started working on that.

And I think having at least two levels of difficulty was a major one.

So if you want to do it more casually and not get, you know, if your frustration tolerance is a lot lower, you just go with the easy mode and then come back later with a harder mode if you want to try it again.

I was talking to somebody a while ago, and they were playing, this was Monkey Island, or Return to Monkey Island, and they were just playing the game through the hint system.

They would just use the hint system continually as they played the game.

Yeah

... you know, uh, Return Monkey Island? Because like, uh, Return has a ton of like the close-ups, and it has kind of a, like some kind of, uh, like kindness ideas and design.

Mm-hmm.

And I mean that is...

I, I had a really good experience, Michael.

I don't re- I don't remember if you've played this, but the Return to Monkey Island.

Did you play that one?

Yes, I did.

So, David, what have you been working on?

Well, first of all, getting used to the code again, since it's been, what, four years since Return to Monkey Island.

And it's a similar code base, but slightly different in terms of commands.

And just trying to get my muscle memory back and typing the commands and having them just come up the way that they should.

But I am really enjoying kind of the feeling of getting back into it because this feels very, you know, it's very reminiscent of when we started previously.

The main difference is Ron has got like puzzle dependency charts that are like, you know, huge compared to when he first started because I think he's kindly figured out the whole puzzle dependency chart thing.

Yeah, that really blossomed in Return to Monkey Island because I do pretty detailed dependency charts, so I've kind of learned a lot more.

I'm assuming you got really into that on Return to Monkey Island.