ZOMG! Ron Gilbert pitching in on Penny Arcade game!
Written by Dan Zuccarelli   
Thursday, 10 May 2007 06:00
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At first, the only thing we knew about the Penny Arcade game was the title, but even that was enough to get my interest peaked... On the Rain Slicked Precipice of Darkness. It just sounds cool. I knew it was a game to keep an eye on but now it's a game I'm dying to play. How does a game go from "this should be cool" to "holy shit I need to play this game!"?

Two words, Ron Gilbert.

To those that don't know he helped create a few games you might have heard of, like Maniac Mansion , Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, and The Secret of Monkey Island. So in other words he's responsible for some of the greatest adventure games ever made (Monkey Island is my favorite game of all time).

Not only that but he's responisble for the game engine he wrote for Maniac Mansion and was subsequently used for almost all of the LucasArts adventure games, with the exception of Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island. The Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion, better known to the gaming community as SCUMM.

If you're making an adventure game, you simply cannot do better than getting Ron Gilbert to work on it. This game just shot to the top of my "most anticipated" list.


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written by gnome, May 10, 2007
At last! The best gaming news I've heard in ages! Hopefully it will be succesful enough t ofund his next project...
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written by Liam, May 10, 2007
How appropriate, you fight like a Fruit Fucker!
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written by Danny M, May 11, 2007
well i missed out on that damn Monkey game that Dans always talking about, so I guess this means I will be getting this one...
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written by Ron Gilbert gets all Grumpy in, January 17, 2008
[...] But let’s start at the beginning. The excellent Bits Bytes Pixels and Sprites blog was where I first learned of the very official and undeniable fact that Ron Gilbert, the creator of Monkey Island himself (albeit in his mortal guise), is working on the forthcoming Penny Arcade game, soon to be released in episodic format under the most impressive title of On The Rail-Slick Precipice of Darkness. Obviously, Penny Arcade confirmed the news and added some pretty juicy if not personal details: [...]

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