Artist Jón Kristinsson has started a Tumblr dedicated to his beautiful illustrations of point-and-click adventure games like Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle.
Has Tim Schafer changed the gaming industry? It’s a question I’ve seen on more than a few message boards and Twitter feeds over the past 24 hours, following the Grim Fandango creator’s announcement that his company Double Fine will use crowdfunding website Kickstarter to finance a new point-and-click adventure game.
Double Fine head Tim Schafer is just as baffled as the rest of us at news that Markus “Notch” Persson wants to fund a Psychonauts sequel.
I caught this over the weekend when our friends at Rock, Paper Shotgun posted it — some folks have been dilligently working on putting together an HD “Deluxe” version of the beloved Tim Schafer/Lucasarts adventure gaming classic Grim Fandango. They’ve posted a video that, sadly, isn’t in-engine, but it does give a good sense of what their finished product might look like.
The fine folks over at Adventuregamers.com have taken on one of the most herculean tasks in video-game-list-writing: They have assembled a list of not the top 10, not the top 20, but the top 100 adventure games of all time. It’s a really good list, too.
British rapper Dan Bull has put his rhyming skills to work and produced this fantastic Skyrim rap.