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jake rodkin
jake rodkin
@rodkin.online
Designer at Valve. Helped make Half-Life Alyx, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, Idle Thumbs Avatar by @michaelfirman.bsky.social
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Our Kickstarter for the “Guild of Writers” Deluxe Collection of the Myst Trilogy is NOW LIVE! 📚 Head here to make your pledge: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cya...
I talked about Monkey Island a bunch with the Quest Quest guys:
This week on Quest Quest: @bvigeant.bsky.social and I discuss Tales of Monkey Island with Project Lead @rodkin.online! It's a fascinating peek behind the scenes of Telltale's episodic entry into the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate. Listen here (or wherever): zencastr.com/z/Efy-LeJk
It’s a project on which I spent most of its production in an overwhelming miasma of self doubt, fannish uncertainty that we should even be making the game, anxiety about fitting a game known for its art onto WiiWare’s 40mb cap, and not enough time to make it, but I’m really proud of how it came out.
I talked about Monkey Island a bunch with the Quest Quest guys:
This week on Quest Quest: @bvigeant.bsky.social and I discuss Tales of Monkey Island with Project Lead @rodkin.online! It's a fascinating peek behind the scenes of Telltale's episodic entry into the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate. Listen here (or wherever): zencastr.com/z/Efy-LeJk
Tales of Monkey Island was the second game anyone allowed me to do game design work on, which was a harrowing prospect when my childhood love of Monkey Island was why I was interested in video games as a creative medium. Fortunately I was working with a bunch of people who knew what they were doing.
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It was enormously fun to serve as lead writer on Star Wars: Galactic Racer alongside Duncan. It’s a very ambitious project and Fuse did an amazing job! (Fortunately, Sebulba returned and we got to help put him in a video game)
Really pleased to finally say that Chris Remo and I were the lead writers on Star Wars: Galactic Racer. The team at Fuse are the absolute best in their field, and it really shows. It was a great project to work on and is an even better game to play. Sebulba forever
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Really pleased to finally say that Chris Remo and I were the lead writers on Star Wars: Galactic Racer. The team at Fuse are the absolute best in their field, and it really shows. It was a great project to work on and is an even better game to play. Sebulba forever
"Our newest racer has arrived. Welcome to the Galactic League!" STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™ has officially fired up its engines and is now available worldwide on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. https://starwarsgalacticracer.com/
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Pretty sure I have the career and life I do now because when I first got the web 2/3 of my life ago, the first thing I typed into a search engine was “Monkey Island” and I found the SCUMM Bar website and its community.
Today in Mojo History—30 years ago today: The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar, probably the best Monkey Island page that has happened to anyone ever, launched.
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This is as good an excuse as any to re-share the Quadrilateral Cowboy trailer I got to help make with @derek-lieu.com @chrisremo.bsky.social and @erinyvette.bsky.social a decade ago. Still proud of it! youtu.be/S_IVvhSX2tY
Quadrilateral Cowboy & Invisible Inc are in a cyberpunk bundle together! store.steampowered.com/bundle/82990... I'm a big fan of Invisible Inc, what a joy to be bundled together🙏
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Collecting all the Trial Separation of Monkey Island™ pieces in one place. You can purchase them as prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora... I'm all fan arted out after this.
Rest in peace, awesome Myst prototype
Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc
I playtested this and it was good. The best Myst stuff has this lowkey undercurrent of anxiety - that you aren’t alone, that something in the world is wrong - and you know the game doesn’t have NPCs or a world clock, so the only way to make those traps spring is to press forward through the puzzles.
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This is your LAST CHANCE to play Big Walk early! We've just opened up 4 FINAL weeks of our Big Walk Preview!! Come to the Panic office, bring some friends, and play an hour of Big Walk. It's very fun. Book now: forms.panic.com/big-walk-pre... Here's a special behind-the-scenes peek at the room:
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In a very Indy-like move, we've unearthed a never-before-seen Lucasfilm Games Indiana Jones adventure! Note that we said "adventure," not "game." For possibly the first time ever, here's Indiana Jones and the Quest for Paradise VGA, the best ten-minute commercial you'll see this week.
I was tricked by a very nice person into talking about my career, and a bunch of the amazing things I’ve been able to make with my friends over the last 25 years. If you want to hear someone ramble about LucasArts fan sites, the early years of Telltale, and Firewatch, this chat with Ron is for you:
Last summer, without any warning Adventure Gamers wiped its decades-old forum overnight and flipped to a site promoting gambling content. (kotaku.com/adventure-ga...) Fortunately the guys at Mixnmojo were sent a forum archive by the site’s prior owner and are preserving it:
News from Mojo: Adventure Gamers forum archive lives – on Mojo
Or if you care about old forum preservation, they also maintain a complete archive of the 00s megaforum LucasForums forums.mixnmojo.com/forum/778-lu...
If this sort of thing makes you happy please browse around in the archives on Mixnmojo.com and throw them a few bucks on Patreon www.patreon.com/mixnmojo
Last summer, without any warning Adventure Gamers wiped its decades-old forum overnight and flipped to a site promoting gambling content. (kotaku.com/adventure-ga...) Fortunately the guys at Mixnmojo were sent a forum archive by the site’s prior owner and are preserving it:
News from Mojo: Adventure Gamers forum archive lives – on Mojo
Also the current iteration of Mixnmojo is great. It started off as a LucasArts fansite in the late 90s and after three decades of staying alive, has shifted focus to preservation of LucasArts history and early online fansites, and extensive long-form reporting like this mixnmojo.com/tomes/sam-an...
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News from Mojo: Adventure Gamers forum archive lives – on Mojo
Last summer, without any warning Adventure Gamers wiped its decades-old forum overnight and flipped to a site promoting gambling content. (kotaku.com/adventure-ga...) Fortunately the guys at Mixnmojo were sent a forum archive by the site’s prior owner and are preserving it:
News from Mojo: Adventure Gamers forum archive lives – on Mojo
The archives are live up through 2012, with the rest coming someday: agforums.mojodb.com
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🏞️ Hot tip! If you live near Portland OR (or want to come visit us), we've JUST opened up more slots for our Big Walk Preview experience! Come place the latest game from House House early with your friends. It's a very fun hour. Now booking May 20th to June 14th: forms.panic.com/big-walk-pre...
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20 years ago we knew who we were and we don’t anymore youtu.be/H6d1dR2170o?...
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