Gilbert: The Walking Dead is "Proof of the Mass Marketing of Adventure Games"
Monkey Island creator believes the genre isn't dead.
If there's just one person to ask about the state of adventure games, Ron Gilbert is your man. And the creator of the classic Monkey Island series says that the genre is far from dead, pointing to the success of TellTale's The Walking Dead as proof that adventure games can appeal to the mass market.
"Things like Sam & Max are wonderfully fabulous games, but they’re a little nichey in a way," begins Gilbert to PC Gamer. "But I think The Walking Dead really proved that there’s a large number of people out there who, if you build a game that’s accessible to them – build an adventure game that’s accessible to them – they will just flock to it.
"I think, with The Walking Dead, it’s kind of proof of the mass marketing of adventure games."
Things have been a bit rocky for the genre in the last decade or so, before TellTale's digital revolution. But Gilbert believes that adventure games will never really die, because "there’s a whole lot that is really cool and neat and interesting about those," and that some people like "visceral moment-to-moment gameplay."
Gilbert's latest project is The Cave, which is being developed at Double Fine and published by SEGA in January for PC, Wii U, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Via VG247
"Things like Sam & Max are wonderfully fabulous games, but they’re a little nichey in a way," begins Gilbert to PC Gamer. "But I think The Walking Dead really proved that there’s a large number of people out there who, if you build a game that’s accessible to them – build an adventure game that’s accessible to them – they will just flock to it.
"I think, with The Walking Dead, it’s kind of proof of the mass marketing of adventure games."
Things have been a bit rocky for the genre in the last decade or so, before TellTale's digital revolution. But Gilbert believes that adventure games will never really die, because "there’s a whole lot that is really cool and neat and interesting about those," and that some people like "visceral moment-to-moment gameplay."
Gilbert's latest project is The Cave, which is being developed at Double Fine and published by SEGA in January for PC, Wii U, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Via VG247
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