{"id":1417212,"date":"2025-12-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zHLA569NWqDzqTW2utkdBU"},"modified":"2025-12-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:00:00","slug":"monkey-island-creator-ron-gilbert-isnt-interested-in-returning-to-making-2d-adventure-games-when-were-all-dead-it-probably-wont-be-the-kind-of-thing-that-survives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/monkey-island-creator-ron-gilbert-isnt-interested-in-returning-to-making-2d-adventure-games-when-were-all-dead-it-probably-wont-be-the-kind-of-thing-that-survives\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert isn’t interested in returning to making 2D adventure games: ‘When we’re all dead, it probably won’t be the kind of thing that survives’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monkey Island<\/a> creator Ron Gilbert isn’t interested in making another 2D adventure game, despite having brought the series back in precisely that form only a few years ago.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Ars Technica<\/a>, Gilbert compared “use verb or noun”- style adventure games to black and white silent movies, expressing that making games like that now would feel similarly dated.<\/p>\n

“You do get some younger people that do kind of enjoy those games, but I think it’s one of those things that when we’re all dead, it probably won’t be the kind of thing that survives,” he explained.<\/p>\n

It’s a little surprising to hear from Gilbert, considering the recent output of his studio Terrible Toybox. Two of the studio’s last three games\u2014namely Thimbleweed Park<\/a> and Return to Monkey Island<\/a>\u2014were classically-styled adventures. But Gilbert believes there are more innovative and interesting ways to make adventure games today, pointing to games like Simogo’s Lorelei and the Laser Eyes<\/a> as an example: \u201cI think games like that are kind of the future for adventure games,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Indeed, should Gilbert ever get the chance to make another Monkey Island game (the rights to Monkey Island are held by Disney) it would be closer to something like Lorelei than the 2D games or yore. Gilbert envisions an adventure where players “go around in a true 3D world, rather than as a 2D point-and-click game”.<\/p>\n

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