The Secret of Monkey Island

Yeah.

That's something that, like, I would learn about and then experience for fun in, like, the first Secret of Monkey Island game, for example-

Yes, yeah

... which may only have one, or there could be more.

The SCUMM engine stands for Scripting Utility.

for Maniac Mansion that was eventually used in many, many different games, including The Secret of Monkey Island and others.

Speaking of The Secret of Monkey Island, Ron Gilbert was also the man behind that and Monkey Island 2 LeChuck's Revenge.

Um, another member of the team, the other co-designer was Gary Winnick.

He did the scripting of the art and the animation.

Yeah.

Or, you know, the, uh, the literal red herring in Secret of Monkey Island.

You know...

So here's the thing, is that I don't think there's, uh, I don't think there's anything that you, you shouldn't have in an adventure game.

I guess vivid violence.

Comparing it to The Secret of Monkey Island, for example...

The whole first big chunk of that game is you need to become a pirate and you have to do these three trials to become a pirate.

So it's very straightforward.

On this most... sacred one matter this one's tough for me i like it i really like the game a lot i don't like this game a lot we don't have do we have a point and click in our exemplar we do not currently we have despite having covered two point and clicks three three wait three ten twenty forty all of we've only played we've only

played

um no we covered uh i'm just thinking of the secret of monkey island which we we chucked it yeah that in the bin you know what i stand by that actually i do too um we played through it hurt to throw it in there but i stand by that choice Maniac Mansion we put in the Preservationist Collection, which I do...

That feels good.

So the book was optioned as a movie and I spent some time in development hell, as you said.

At the same time, LucasArts develops The Secret of Monkey Island, which this book explicitly is cited as an inspiration.

the character of LeChuck, the ghost pirate captain, and his zombie crew.

That all comes from this book, right?