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Original Grim Fandango design document released [pdf]

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Ah, the one game that should've had a sequel but did not. I would've traded Monkey Island 4 for GF2 gladly.

PS The tears of joy box on the very last page was a great touch.

How would they do a sequel? By the end of the game, everyone's dead.

At the start of the game, everyone's dead.

The good old adventure game genre, seemingly dead today except for perhaps Psychonauts, but the home of so many great games.

My favorite is Star Control II; perhaps a bit more action-oriented than a "pure" adventure game, but still in many ways true to the concept. And, like many adventure games, brilliantly hilarious at times (Zoq-Fot-Pik, anyone?)

SCII is legendary! One of my all-time favourites too.

And I forgot to mention, for those who don't know already, you can get the game for free for a modern computer as The Ur-Quan Masters ( http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ ), due to the open-sourcing of the original game's code. It runs natively on Windows and Linux (and I assume OS X), and comes complete with all the audio of the 3DO version, too.

I discovered it not much time ago and it resulted in a sleepless night... very good game

The best game ever created.

Fantastic game. I actually thought Psychonauts was even better. Tim Schafer is a very rare gem.

http://www.google.com/products?q=grim+fandango&btnG=Sear...

It looks like the game is still selling for $30+ in retail. I thought it would be a lot cheaper by now.

I must be apart of the minority, but I still need to play this game. Added to my list of "things to do after I've made bank".

this game changed my life

How?

I never played the game, but this design doc is truly fascinating. Def in my top 5 HN finds.

nostalgiastart

I was into Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle but I never bought GF.

/endnostalgia

Day of the Tentacle was one of favorite adventure games ever, but there was really something special about Grim Fandango. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other game that combined superb art direction, music, ambiance, story and memorable characters to the same extent as Grim Fandango.

I don't think it's too much hyperbole to say that Grim Fandango was the swan song of an entire genre.

Now I'm getting sad :(

I spent so much time on Maniac Mansion but I never got into Day of The Tentacle (I don't remember why). Was it good?

THE greatest game ever.

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