
LucasArts and the rationalist tendency in videogames
The legacy of Grim Fandango is broader than you think.
The legacy of Grim Fandango is broader than you think.
The greatest adventure game ever made returns from the dead.
Asking questions of a game about exploring the unknown.
There is one game of note that Tim Schafer had nothing to do with.
Grim Fandango, Tim Schafer’s stone-cold-classic first-ever 3D game, will also becoming to the PC, Mac, and Linux. First announced by Sony during E3 as an exclusive, Schafer has revealed that the not only will the game come to the home computers, but will do so on the same day as PS4 and Vita. Schafer hasn’t gotten to spend much time with Grim Fandango in the 15 years since he left LucasArts and founded Double Fine. “As soon as we brought these two crazy elements together, film noir and mexican folklore,” he says in the making-of below, “it was just one…