Beyond Co-Op: Telltale Games Interview with Dave, Dominic, and Chris

Jason "OrigamiPanther" Love September 9th, 2009 at 4:35 PM  


Dave Grossman, Dominic Armato, and Chris Schmidt

While at PAX, we had a chance to sit down not once, but TWICE with a few folks from Telltale Games to talk about their recent episodic release, Tales of Monkey Island, the lessons they've learned from previous releases, and what are some of their favorite co-op titles.  In the first interview we were joined by Dave Grossman, Design Director for Telltale; Dominic Armato, voice of "Guybrush Threepwood"; and Chris Schmidt, PR Manager.  All of them love playing and talking about games so much, we didn't want to leave anything out.  So we've included the complete audio from the interview, as well as pictures taken by Rob "mightbe" Schuster during the interview, after the break.

 

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As mentioned earlier in the post, this is just the first of two interviews we had with Telltale.  In the second interview, which we'll post later this week, we sat down with Mark Darin, Designer/Programmer for Telltale Games and the director for Tales of Monkey Island Episode 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay.  So stay tuned to Co-Optimus for more from our trip to PAX 2009!

 

            


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16 Total Reader Comments

blakepro at 11:47 AM on 9.9.2009
Can someone tell me what the deal is behind the rubber chicken pulley?
 
Torg001 at 12:25 PM on 9.9.2009
Like the pics, kind of like a storyboard of the interview. You could make a comic out of them, heh)
 
Disgustipated at 12:37 PM on 9.9.2009
I'm thinking these guys will be hailed as adventure gaming's 'revival heroes'. My latest adventure game romp has been Kojima's Policenauts... I love it, but I've gotta get started on the original Monkey Island games.
 
Heretic Machine at 02:15 PM on 9.9.2009
"Can someone tell me what the deal is behind the rubber chicken pulley?"

It is a reference to a puzzle from The Secret of Monkey Island.
 
roland at 02:20 PM on 9.9.2009
What, you can think of a more useful tool than a rubber chicken with a pulley in it?!

I need to get the new Monkey Island. The remake on XBLA was fantastic, I just think I want to wait until the full Tales series comes to a console rather than play it on the PC.
 
mightbe at 03:54 PM on 9.9.2009
Glad you like the pictures.

As for the Telltale guys, they were constantly giving time to media folks from all over. Not only are they hard working, they're incredibly nice as well.
 
Mrxknown_JG at 04:17 PM on 9.9.2009
Great audio, may have to do again when I'm not busy. Seemed like it was pretty informal though
 
smurphster at 04:19 PM on 9.9.2009
these guys are definitely in the right job. i'd hate to see them develop an FPS or something. i really need to check out tales of monkey island now.
 
Tasark at 09:40 PM on 9.9.2009
you're so lucky you got to interview them! thanks for having this available to download
 
Nuhru at 11:14 PM on 9.9.2009
I have never played the new Monkey Islands but those guys seem to be really nice so maybe I'll try em someday.
 
Zonf86 at 11:44 PM on 9.9.2009


Thankfully I'm playing the game at the moment so understood the reference!
 
Etanos at 02:00 AM on 9.10.2009
Need to try out the old Monkey Islands before I do the new ones.
 
Syphous at 03:39 AM on 9.10.2009
I played the demo of Monkey Island SE on Xbox Live and decided to never buy it. Not that the game isn't great, just I've already played it and it's exactly the same but with NEW GRAPHICS! ZOMG!
 
mattism at 05:52 AM on 9.10.2009
Good interview. I will get the Monkey Island game sometime soon.
 
cave at 10:36 AM on 9.10.2009
Good interview but how do these slightly funny people make such hilarious games, you need to interview the comedy genius.
 
Biohzrd451 at 02:38 AM on 9.11.2009
I really hope they pick up some of the other games that Lucasarts did like full throttle I spent so much time playing games like the on the pc.
 


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