In 2008, I wrote a business proposal that established a framework and dedicated team at LucasArts called "Heritage" that focused on redeveloping and reintroducing our classic library of award-winning games and IPs. It still exists to this day.
A year later, and now, shockingly,…
I don’t know about you, but this summer at the movies has been pretty special so far.
And we likely won’t get these two in their iconic roles on a big screen again, so let’s enjoy it while we can!
#IndianaJones
#TheFlashMovie
Go see
#IndianaJones
this weekend! I’ve seen it a few times now, and it gets better with each viewing!
Time to play some Indiana Jones games this weekend too!
Thank you,
@Neil_Druckmann
, and to all the developers, press, and fans that have shown support, offered kind words and cheered on this project and team. It's a shame these things happen, but I love how our industry always stands up and supports one another.
Wow! Even wholesome adventure games aren’t safe from toxic “fans” who know better than the original creators?!
Ron (and team), y’all keep making what YOU believe in! It looks gorgeous! I’m there day fucking one!
This is art. Fun, silly art.
Makes me want a whole series of music videos in the middle of famous
#StarWars
battle scenes.
Or, you know, carbon-freezing chamber dance battle scenes. 😊
Somehow, Monkey Island returned!
I’m going radio silent for the day, but I’ll be reading and watching your reactions throughout. Be kind and don’t spoil anything!
This has been a labor of love for us all, and I sincerely hope you enjoy the game. See you on the other side.
I’ve have dedicated a good part of my career to getting a NEW
#MonkeyIsland
game off the ground AND releasing something on International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
On September 19th, both are finally realized, when Return to Monkey Island sets sail for PC and Nintendo Switch! ❤️
#IndianaJones
and the Great Circle!
Uncover one of history's greatest mysteries in this first person, single-player adventure from
@MachineGames
and Executive Producer Todd Howard, releasing in 2024!
@noobde
Here's my theory on the "spinarooni":
Skad has one natural eye and one "moded" eye, which means he has limited depth perception. To compensate, when under fire, he quickly spins 360° to create a panoramic LiDAR scan of all immediate threats.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk
Finally found the
#ReturnToMonkeyIsland
cover issue of PC Gamer in the wild!
I bought two copies. 😍
More impressive, though, is it’s 2022 and Monkey Island is on the cover of a magazine. Let that sink in.
Pulled a few things out of storage to celebrate today’s launch anniversary of
#MonkeyIsland
SE and TOMI while preparing for the journey back to Melee Island in
@SeaOfThieves
next week!
Friday night garage cleanup.
Found my
#LucasArts
new employee packet from 17 years ago (Jan. 2006.)
Crazy how much time has gone by, but I just can’t get rid of these things.
“I've been looking for this all my life.”
If you had told that nine-year-old boy back in Detroit, watching Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time, that one day he'd be part of Lucasfilm and credited in an
#IndianaJones
movie, he wouldn't have believed it.
Absolutely…
Deep in the Caribbean, the worlds of
@SeaOfThieves
and Monkey Island unite.
Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island begins July 20th with the first of three exciting and hilarious new Tall Tales, released monthly!
Today, I completed my Monkey Island collection by paying more than 20 bucks for a computer game—the Limited Run classic Lucasfilm Games boxed version of Return to Monkey Island!
With this piece added, it wraps up the culmination of a 16-year journey, reviving and crafting new…
Welcome to
#MonkeyIslandMonday
and the first chapter intro from the game!
How great is it that we get to have our own hashtag and own the day? Let’s get this trending!
LOTS of retweets coming today…
Return to Monkey Island | Original Video Game Soundtrack. Now available at these fine retailers:
iTunes:
Apple:
Spotify:
Pandora:
Amazon Music:
YouTube…
Fourteen years ago, I devised a plan to revive the Monkey Island franchise with the Special Editions and remaster our back-catalog library. However, everyone knows that the real goal was to get Ron & the band back together to make this game.
Did you know that Monkey Island 2: SE’s audio commentary was the FIRST for a downloadable console game ever released?
We’re in the Guinness World Records for it!
Here’s the mock-up I made to develop the feature, presenting it as a MST3k-styled pop-up, plus me with the guys.
Congratulations to Ron, Dave, and the teams at Terrible Toybox, Devolver Digital, and Lucasfilm Games for creating a true masterpiece of its genre that I'm sure will be played, discussed, critiqued, and studied for years.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition was released 13 years ago today. Crazy.
I’m so thankful to everyone that believed in the vision and our talented team. Proud to have this art in my office too.
The long
#ReturnToMonkeyIsland
journey is nearly here. What a ride!
September is
#MonkeyIsland
month! 🏴☠️
Show us your art, share your stories, wear your fancy pirate cosplay, and celebrate all month long with us.
This month we're marking the 1-year Anniversary of
#ReturntoMonkeyIsland
!
Plus, we're unveiling the third and final Tale Tale of…
September is Return to Monkey Island month!
And to celebrate Imma share things I love with doodles
Let's start with the narrative design, I loved the multiple endings and giving me the agency to decide which one lives rent free in my heart ❤️
Monkey Island Shenanigans ~☆
Return to Monkey Island just won the PC Game of the Year at the 40th Golden Joystick Awards!!
Thank you to all of the fans, voters, friends, and industry colleagues, that have supported and cheered on the return of this beloved franchise!
This one is quite special.
Like its creators, the game is charming, witty, introspective, absurd, and sentimental. I'm so happy that Ron finally got his chance to tell this story and to have played a part in its development.
Truly a dream gig.
It’s pretty great to see Monkey Island on the Lucasfilm website. Thank you, Lucas Seastrom, for chatting with us about
#ReturnToMonkeyIsland
.
"The Creators and Team behind Return to Monkey Island Talk Storytelling and Game Design"
Return to Monkey Island, the game we surprised you all with on April Fool's Day, then released on Talk Like a Pirate Day last year, is NOW AVAILABLE today on National Coney Dog Day!
Check out the game Touch Arcade says "rules," and that Rock Paper Shotgun says is one of their…
Ahoy! Just got my hands on the coolest developer t-shirts from the Monkey Island team at
@RareLtd
!
Huge shoutout to
@ChappersChapman
,
@JoeNeate1
, and the entire 'Legend of Monkey Island' team for their incredible work last year. We will wear these proudly!
And, of course,…
September continues to be
#MonkeyIsland
month!
To continue the celebration, the Official Soundtrack for
#ReturntoMonkeyIsland
is now available on all your favorite streaming platforms!
Go play the game while you’re at it!
I use a variation of this Top Ten list from the original
@LucasfilmGames
team for all of my projects. It’s timeless and in the DNA of all the games I create.
Excited to share and finally announce this game we've all been working really hard on. It's a TON of fun, a little quirky, and really different than what you might be expecting from a Star Wars game. The teams have been nailing the concept and we can't wait to share more soon!
@Laserschwert_
True story: I started every meeting by saying “The SECRET of Monkey Island is that NO ONE knows we’re making it. Don’t talk about it.” You know, loose lips sink pirate ships.
The thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
Return to Monkey Island gets the Limited Run treatment on 1/20 with physical releases for Switch, PS5, Xbox & PC! Learn More + Wishlist:
We developed and released Monkey Island: Special Edition nearly 12 years ago, and it's still going strong!
I'm proud of our team's work and excited that fans have a chance to still discover and play this seminal adventure game from Ron Gilbert and Lucasfilm Games.
Relive the swashbuckling humorous misadventures of the wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood! From re-imagined art to new game features, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is now available on
@Primegaming
!
I'm looking for an artist that can make custom video game covers/boxes for titles that were digital-only releases, canceled, or were never made (I have some Mandela Effect games in my head.)
Any recommendations?
Lean in and I'll share "a" secret about
#MonkeyIsland
...
In the Special Edition, thanks to the team and Dela Longfish, I'm Pirate # 5 and can be seen walking around Melee Island from time-to-time.
I have immense respect for these incredibly talented individuals and their work across all three Tall Tales. 👏🏼
Some weren't even born when Monkey Island launched, yet they're here, full of respect, love, and admiration for the franchise while driving us towards its future.…
Part three of our Deep Dive into the making of Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island is here, including lava-filled catacombs and the second-biggest known monkey head of the Tri-Island Area! Enjoy a final wave of insights into the creation of this iconic collaboration:
It’s odd that
#MonkeyIslandMonday
happens every 7 days. There must be some hidden pattern here. Any ides
@phrenopolis
? I’d ask Guybrush but he seems busy at the moment.
George Lucas will receive the Honorary Palme d’or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
“Cannes has always held a special place in my heart,” he says. “I was surprised and elated when my first film, 'THX-1138,' was selected to be shown in a new program for first time directors…
Wow! Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of the
#MonkeyIsland
fans worldwide for helping us reach this extraordinary milestone and so many others with this brilliant game. Humbled and proud.
Now, THIS is podracing! We're pleased to be working with Lucasfilm Games to release definitive Collector's Editions of classic
@StarWars
games and more.
#E32019
Return to Monkey Island is amazing! Easily one of the best adventure games ever made! Somehow lived up to my crazy high expectations. Huge congrats to
@grumpygamer
and co.!
(And thanks for the early code! ♥️)
Why
#TalkLikeAPirate
when you can have the Legendary Guybrush Threepwood do the talking for you? 🙊🙉🙈
Happy First Anniversary to
#ReturntoMonkeyIsland
, and look for the exciting conclusion of
@SeaOfThieves
The Legend of Monkey Island coming soon!
Take a deep breath and enjoy part one of our Deep Dive into the making of Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island!
Join the core crew
@RareLtd
to hear their affection for the
#MonkeyIsland
series and learn about how they adapted the classic adventure game to the…
Announcing the boxset of every mighty pirate's dreams: the Monkey Island Anthology for PC! Including all five games in the Monkey Island series and many beautiful works of Guybrush art, this anthology sets sail on Friday, October 30th. More details later this month!
Be sure to catch
#gamescom
Opening Night Live today at 8p CEST/7p BST/2p ET/11a PT, for a
#ReturnToMonkeyIsland
World Premiere.
📺 YouTube:
📺 Twitch
They have the meats!
Congratulations to
@DigitalEclipse
on the announcement for The Making of
#Karateka
, Jordan Mechner's martial-arts masterpiece.
It’s one of my favorite games, and a prized possession in my games collection signed by
@jmechner
In Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992), once you enter the dark Algiers dig site, you start to distinguish more things as time passes, meaning Indy's eyes are getting used to the darkness.
@POStudios
@lucasartsfans
@LucasArtsMemory
#lucasarts
Maniac Mansion was the first title that LucasFilm Games both developed and published on its own.
Official trailer for the EGA enhanced version of Maniac Mansion 1989 via
@Ludophilia
#retro
#retrogame
#retrogaming
Big week for me and my team. We announced
#MonkeyIsland
today and great reviews are pouring in for
#LegoStarWarsTheSkywalkerSaga
!
I’ll recap soon, but for now, I want to say THANK YOU to all of you! Such a long, winding road I’ve been on, so seeing this love means a lot!
So, let me get this straight.
@netflix
took a risk on adapting a beloved pirate adventure story about an optimistic boy wanting to become a pirate, kept all the weird, made it live-action, and stayed (mostly) authentic to the source, and now it’s a HUGE hit!? 🤔
#onepiece
After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal for just a brief moment in time.
Visiting my game collection and forgot I had this signed by you,
@SkilletDoux
!
Can’t wait to get a full set of signatures for all my goodies at the
#ReturnToMonkeyIsland
launch party later this year.
Bethesda reveals its new 'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' video game and EW can exclusively confirm 'The Last of Us' star Troy Baker is voicing the adventurer.
Wonderful to finally meet you,
@Nicozilla_FR
! Who knew you could go to Paris, talk
#MonkeyIsland
over espresso, and get an amazing copy of your book!?
Rescue Guybrush Threepwood, complete The Three Trials, join the Circus, zipline using a Rubber Chicken with a Pulley in the Middle, and Fight like a Dairy Farmer when Insult Sword Fighting and more come to
@SeaOfThieves
: The Legend of
#MonkeyIsland
in ONLY TWO DAYS on August…