{"id":27781,"date":"2011-11-29T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T12:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=27781"},"modified":"2011-11-29T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T12:59:58","slug":"ron-gilberts-new-game-predates-maniac-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/27781-ron-gilberts-new-game-predates-maniac-mansion","title":{"rendered":"Ron Gilbert&#8217;s new game &#8220;predates Maniac Mansion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Ron Gilbert left Hothead Games and signed up with Tim Schafer&#8217;s Double Fine Productions in September 2010, the planet was <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5646512\/tim-schafer-hires-ron-gilbert-gets-funnier\">promised<\/a> &#8221; an entirely new concept&#8221; that &#8220;fans of those old adventure games will like&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now, over a year later, Ron is finally ready to saying something more about it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so excited,&#8221; he writes over on his <a href=\"http:\/\/grumpygamer.com\/5694081\">blog<\/a> in an update featuring two pieces of concept art from omg-whatever-it-is. &#8220;This is an idea that has been in my head for a long long long time.\u00a0\u00a0It predates Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s a game that needed to be made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are two of the playable characters.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s all I can say right now, but more will follow later. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The character design is very reminiscent of Day of the Tentacle, which can only be an awesome thing, right?<\/p>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, with Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer on the same team, the awesome is pretty much guaranteed.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Grumpy Gamer\" href=\"http:\/\/grumpygamer.com\/5694081\">Grumpy Gamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ron-Gilbert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27959\" title=\"Ron Gilbert\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ron-Gilbert.jpg\" alt=\"New Ron Gilbert Game\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ron-Gilbert.jpg 699w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ron-Gilbert-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ron-Gilbert-250x183.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, he can finish taking over the world! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":27961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1133,1131,467,1129],"class_list":["post-27781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-maniac-mansion","tag-monkey-island","tag-new-game","tag-ron-gilbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27807,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27781\/revisions\/27807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}