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Saturday, August 12, 2000

My Resignation From Mixnmojo & The Community
Posted by Narrative @ 20:34 BST ( Comments 2 )
Because of some recent events in my life (online and also offline) I have decided it'd be best for me to tender my resignation with my position in Mixnmojo (and the community affiliated with it like The Scumm Bar) for an un-known period of time.
I have decided that it'd be for the best.
I have also decided it'd be best to have a break from the LucasArts community, and so I will have a leave of absence from input into the community as a whole.
What this will mean is I will, infrequently, be working on future features, posting news article, discussing on the message boards, participating in IRC DalNet or any other participation with the community. This includes Scumm Bar along with Mixnmojo.
As for the length of this time of my resignation, I am not sure to be honest. Until I feel that I could contribute to the community in a proper and appropriate fashion and that the time is right, I may return.
This doesn't mean I'm going into a cave, becoming a hermit or joining a Big Brother house for a year! I will still be following the news, keeping an eye on everyone and replying to my mail, but I shall not be inputting into the community like I have been.
I shall be online IRC in #monkey-island (DalNet) for most of tomorrow night (Sunday), so if you have anything to say to me, then I shall be online.
I'm sorry for any problems this causes towards the community (Mixnmojo & ScummBar).
I'll be back :-)

Thanks for any support,
Fair well...

Matthew Shaw
AKA Narrative

In the words of Arnold Rimmer:

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast...

New Magazine Preview for UK Fans
Posted by invisibelle @ 5:05 BST ( Comments 0 )
UK PC Gamer Magazine has published a 6 page EMI preview in its August issue. No new pictures, but lots of information.
Unfortunately, UK PC Gamer isn't available in the US... hard luck for Americans. If you're dying to read it, you can download the scanned text here (762 kb). Thanks to Mort-Hog for the news and the scans.

Friday, August 11, 2000

New LEC Stuff
Posted by Narrative @ 21:31 BST ( Comments 0 )
LucasArts have updated their web-page with some cool EMI stuff!
As well as the poll mentioned by Emma, there is also a new featured screenshot of Escape from Monkey Island and it's of "The Tumbling Termites", which incidentally contains the clippet from last week's main poll.

New MI poll at LEC
Posted by Emma @ 21:04 BST ( Comments 0 )
LEC has yet another poll associated with EMI. This time it asks, "If you could hold your breath for 10 minutes like Guybrush (Monkey 4), how would you use this rare talent? " So get along to the LucasArts website and vote!

THE EMI COVER IS OFFICIAL!!!!!
Posted by Pedgey @ 18:53 BST ( Comments 5 )
This is the response I recieved from amazon.com about the EMI boxart that is currently on display on their page:

Thanks for a great question. While we don't have any information about the actual artist who rendered the "Escape from Monkey Island" cover, you can rest assured that the cover art was sent to us by the manufacturer.

On those occasions where we haven't been given an image of a product,
we simply supply all the information we can, without a picture.

So... there you have it... the cover WAS supplied by LEC.

Monkey Impossible 2
Posted by Skyfox @ 13:18 BST ( Comments 1 )
You have got to see this... I remember this! Amiga Power (A UK Magazine from years ago) They once had an article called Monkey Island in the style of John Woo. Are you interested? hehe.. view the scan here! Many thanks to Silent Bob for emailing this to me!

Thursday, August 10, 2000

Confusion Over Cover Art
Posted by Narrative @ 7:58 BST ( Comments 1 )
There has been some confusion over the Escape from Monkey Island cover art, as posted below.
By the look of it, it does look amateur produced compared to the normal standard of box-art. This has mainly been because of several flaws or features, like the way the art is made of the in-game low polygon models and that things like the TM & Copyright marks are missing. Also, the slogan is the same as CMI, among with many other irregular parts.
Some people have said it's the final box-art, some have said its a fan-work, and others have suggested it's something else.
Looking at it, chances are it's a very early draft of the final box-art from LucasArts that was given to Amazon just so customers can pre-order the game and see what the cover looks like.
So don't fret, chances are the final version will look different and a lot better!

Wednesday, August 9, 2000

EMI Box Art
Posted by Skyfox @ 17:26 BST ( Comments 4 )
Amazon.com appears to have a picture of the EMI box art! Nice eh? It also says that it will be released on the 15th November 2000... but I would not take this date as 100% certain at this time. Thanks goto Remi Olsen for the news!

Tuesday, August 8, 2000

Remember this?
Posted by Skyfox @ 9:27 BST ( Comments 0 )
Tell you what... I'll just let type what The World of Monkey Island had to say about this one.

You might remember that back in 1998 Iris Dragt started to create a comic based on The Secret of Monkey Island and I was lucky enough to be able to host the comic exclusively at The World of Monkey Island. The comic was extremely popular and she made 13 pages before deciding to concentrate her work on another comic and the upcoming adventure game, The Masters. (http://masters.adventuregamer.com/)

Therefore, I am happy to report that Iris Dragt has decided to continue her work on the Monkey Island comic. However, since her drawings has improved much over the years, she has decided to start over from scratch and it is with great joy that I present page one of the new Monkey Island comic!

The drawings are truly superb and she puts a lot of work in creating them.
I hope you will check out the new comic and see what a great artist she is.

I'm really looking forward to this one.

Monday, August 7, 2000

New Screenshots
Posted by Skyfox @ 3:13 BST ( Comments 0 )
La Aventura es La Aventura has sent word that they have scanned new screenshots from EMI that were printed in Xtreme PC Magazine. Just visit La Aventura es La Aventura and click on the 'Se sabe que' link.

Saturday, August 5, 2000

New Wallpaper
Posted by Skyfox @ 21:55 BST ( Comments 1 )
Nethernia Wallpapers has sent word that they have a CMI Wallpaper... it's a real nice one too! You can grab it here!

Project Leaders Interview
Posted by Skyfox @ 14:20 BST ( Comments 0 )
The Clearly Unoffficial Escape From Monkey Island Website has a (very funny) interview with the EMI project leaders - Mike Stemmle & Sean Clark. Methinks you should go read!

Gamepen Preview
Posted by Skyfox @ 11:55 BST ( Comments 0 )
Guess who's back... go on, guess! Well.. down to work. Gamepen have a new Preview of EMI. Be sure to check it out... thanks to the Editor and kermIT for the news.

Friday, August 4, 2000

LOL Project Terminated
Posted by Narrative @ 12:55 BST ( Comments 5 )
The fangame project Legends of LeChuck, which incidentally was started by me, has been suspended indefinitely due to a legal notice from LucasArts themselves.
This is a grim day for the LucasArts fangame community for which this spells certain doom, especially projects like FOMI2 which is close to completion of Chapter 3 and the Indy fangame project FOA2 which shows immense potential.
For a full explanation of what LucasArts summoned ShawArts (my organisation setup to create fangames) to do, visit the official site at Http://www.shawarts.co.uk.

Thursday, August 3, 2000

Cool EMI Stuff!
Posted by Narrative @ 18:43 BST ( Comments 0 )
The Monkey Island fan site The Legend of Monkey Island has lots of really cool Escape from Monkey Island Icons.
You can have Barkeep, Ghost Pirate LeChuck, Carla, Elaine or Ignatius on your desktop now!
They also some other cool unique home-brewed stuff like the Animated GIFs and Cursors (Especially the animated ones!) based on all Monkey Island games.

Tuesday, August 1, 2000

MI 2 Selected into Hall of Fame!
Posted by Dingy @ 21:17 BST ( Comments 0 )
The highly appreciated sequal to SOMI has been elected into the Gamespy Hall of Fame. Here's a little of what the site says about the game: "What was so innovative in Monkey Island 2 is that, for the first time, puzzles were 'layered', far more so than anything up to that date. For example, you'd find you needed to get to place B, but to do so you needed first to open door A, and that required both key C and grease glob D, both of which were attained through entirely different puzzles."

Source: Mercatfat

Skyfox Lives!
Posted by Skyfox @ 14:41 BST ( Comments 4 )
Hey All... Skyfox on Holiday here! Don't ya just love internet cafes? Anyway, glad to see the others are taking good care of the site! Seeyas all in few days, take care!

EMI pictures and story in Computer Magazine
Posted by Dingy @ 9:51 BST ( Comments 2 )
EMI has been featured in the Septembers issue of Computer Games Magazine Computer Games Magazine
Take my advice and buy the magazine when it arrives at your news stand. It covers the most about the game we love.

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