"I was born to make DeathSpank!"
Ron Gilbert on 3D, Monkey Island and what's next.
I think it can be. The things you mentioned - more of the casual stuff and the party games - those are the easy things to do. It's not surprising those are the first things we'd see. It's going to be when designers and developers can really start to explore those things and do exactly what you said, which is apply that stuff to more of the hardcore games. But, it's going to take a little while to figure out. Hopefully those devices are around for years to come, so people really can explore those things. I think there could be.
Well I didn't see the 3DS, so I can't tell you about that specifically. I know that I hate 3D movies. I find them disturbing. Although I did see a demo of somebody playing World of Warcraft in 3D, which I thought was pretty cool. So I don't know. I haven't had enough experience with it and the games to really know. I do know wearing a pair of glasses as you play a game is going to be a big problem. Maybe, down the road, when TVs can do 3D without glasses and all of those things, I think that's when you might see it become popular. But I think wearing the glasses is always going to be a problem.
[Laughs] You know I think it's wonderful that they're re-releasing them - on a lot of levels. I personally don't mind the graphics. I know some people don't like them. Even if you don't like the graphics and the games, you really have to commend them for re-releasing those games 20 years later, and introducing a whole new audience to adventure games, really. I think we should all cheer those things.
Right now I'm just taking a vacation.
No, I'm just sitting round the house doing absolutely nothing, which is something I haven't done in the last two years. I'm just relaxing for a while.
You know I'm just having fun playing with the iPhone and the iPad games, just doing some programming stuff, but all that's just hobby stuff. So no, I don't have any hard plans yet.
Yeah, very much. I think those are absolutely wonderful platforms.
Well, you can play Monkey Island on them already.
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DeathSpank will be available for download beginning 13th July on the PlayStation Network for $14.99, and 14th July on Xbox Live Arcade for 1200 Microsoft Points.