The Intersection of Puzzle and Story (with Ron Gilbert)

Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!

Your nice hosts welcome famed designer Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island, Thimbleweed Park) into the clubhouse to discuss the virtues of inexperience, friction for its own sake, how it's all about story, and it's puzzles all the way down.

The Intersection of Puzzle and Story

Game Design

Narrative

Production

Return to Monkey Island will have a hint system because the internet exists now

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Joshua Rivera

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Polygon

Verdant Skies

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Steam

Classic Game Postmortem: Maniac Mansion

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GDC

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YouTube

The phrase "confederacy of dunces" derives from a Jonathan Swift quote.

Examples of movies that feature a poorly-received genre twist include Serenity (2019), Remember Me (2010), and Safe Haven (2013).

Ron Gilbert

Guest

Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.

External link

Mastodon - @[e-mail]

Blog - Grumpy Gamer

Studio - Terrible Toybox