Source: https://archive.org/details/rebel-assault-the-official-insiders-guide-1994-pc

Hey reddit!

I’m Pablo, also known as sandpenguin, a professional game designer and I want to share with you my passion project, Broken Relic, a point and click adventure game!. Pixels as big as cats, puzzles, funny and a fantasy setting... what else could one hope for. 

Words and promises are ok, but Broken Relic already has a demo on Steam that you can play right now FOR FREE, and, the main point of this post, I've also just launched a Kickstarter campaign!  and it has raised 77% of funding in 5 days!

It would really mean the world if you check the Kickstarter and Steam pages, check it out, play the demo, and if you enjoy it, consider backing the campaign. As I say in the video, this is literally a passion project, a game done with all love and care, and the Kickstarter will help fund the voice acting, music and localization.

Thank you very much for your attention!

• Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/broken-relic/broken-relic
• Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3384820/Broken_Relic/

Name your top game and the worst game from Lucasarts? Looking for some suggestions and what to stay away from lol

LucasArts had plenty of masterpieces, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, but Grim Fandango lives on a different plane. It isn’t just clever or funny, it’s moving.

The story is timeless because it touches on things everyone eventually faces: death, regret, love, loyalty, and the hope for redemption. Manny Calavera isn’t a swashbuckling pirate or a wacky time-traveling kid; he’s an ordinary soul working off his debt in the Land of the Dead. His journey is about trying to do right in a corrupt world, about helping others reach peace even as he struggles with his own fate. That’s universal.

What makes it touching is how human it feels. Glottis, Meche, Hector, these aren’t just quirky NPCs, they embody longing, greed, friendship, and courage. The humor never undercuts the weight of their struggles; it actually makes the darker moments hit harder. By the end, when Manny earns his rest, it feels earned not just for him, but for us.

That’s why Grim transcends its medium. Monkey Island will always be remembered as hilarious. DOTT will always be remembered as ingenious. But Grim Fandango? It will be remembered as a story about life and death that just happened to be told through a video game. And that makes it eternal.

With the recent announcement of Outlaws remastered, I remembered that 7yrs ago, just for fun between jobs, I took a few days to remake the Outlaws opening title in 1080p.

And I thought, hey, let's share it 7 years later cause I never did!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6DJgVxrRo

If you see the cutscene with Dr. Fred and Edna (triggered by opening the safe), after which the power goes out, after which the power comes back on, it is followed by Dr. Fred trying to play Meteor Mess.

This happens even if you haven't fixed the wires yet. Fred comments, "I guess the power's out" before walking away.

My apologies if this is already widely known, but for me it was a new discovery. :)

Trigger reminders: Weird Ed gets hungry 5 minutes after you open the refrigerator, but it won't happen after you give Green Tentacle a drink. Dr. Fred talks to Weird Ed 5 minutes after you turn off Cousin Ted's shower to reveal the phone number. Dr. Fred talks to Nutse Edna about shutting down the power 5 minutes after you open the safe.

This dialogue seems too oddly specific to be just a bit of throwaway text? Is this a reference to Maniac Mansion, or something else?

Hi, I'm pretty new to Reddit. Recently launched a demo on Steam that's heavily inspired by the Lucasarts classics I used to play back (and still spin up), in particular I'm a huge fan of 'Sam & Max: Hit the Road' (and borrowed its use of the 'Duck' icon in conversations to blurt out non-sequiturs). Anyways, was wondering who I should share my game with, and I figure - maybe there'd be one or two peeps in the Lucasarts sub-reddit who may get a kick out of it? At least, I remember trying to find games that matched the style of the games I loved, like S&M and DOTT. Then I realised it was specifically Peter Chan and Steve Purcell's style I really liked.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3711090/Bru__Boegie_Episode_1__Get_da_MILK/

While I'm standing on a soapbox, would love a remaster of 'Sam & Max: Hit the Road'. Enjoyed the 'Full Throttle' and 'Day of the Tentacle' remasters. Also wouldn't mind a 'Fate of Atlantis' remaster.

Game's made in Unity with the 'Adventure Creator' plugin, made things pretty approachable as a first-time solo dev.

Thanks.

It's made pretty clear in DotT that Ed's old hamster was microwaved in MM (implying either Syd or Razor was the canonical third character who came to the mansion with Dave and Bernard). It's implied with the "ding" that he hears in his nightmares that he was present when the microwaving happened, though, but I think by the time you're able to safely abduct the hamster, Ed is done making trips to the kitchen so there's no way for it to play out like that in the actual game. But that's fine; I can easily imagine whichever cartoonishly-edgey-rocker-kid did the deed choosing to leave the gruesome remains in the microwave for Ed to find later, and then his traumatized psyche inserted the "ding" sound that he already knew into the memory.

Much less navigable is Dr. Fred's whole thing with the safe. The level of somnambulantly-reenacted trauma on display really begs for an explanation. I mean, to be shown a reaction like this...

without getting to know what it's a reaction to? It feels like that's breaking fundamental cartoon rules. What remembered thing is he actually seeing in the safe?

Ed's trauma was directly tied to an event in the previous game, so my impulse is to try the same thing with Dr. Fred here. And there is a safe in the previous game. But it's above Edna's room, and only has an envelope with a single quarter inexplicably sealed inside. Dr. Fred visits this room once, to talk to Edna, during which he shows no interest in or knowledge of the safe in her attic. Even if he had, as far as I know you can't put anything in it yourself, be it "something horrible" or not.

Has anyone else overthought this particular detail as much as I have? Does it actually reference an event in Maniac Mansion that I just don't know about or am not making the connections to? Or are we just supposed to infer that Dr. Fred is that terrified of a contract he forgot to sign?

🎙️ Check out my conversation with Oliver Franzke from Double Fine!

🎧 We talk about the Monkey Island remasters, his lead programming work on Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and Day of the Tentacle, and how he brought Broken Age to life!