Secrets from Monkey Island development
Aric Wilmunder worked on some of LucasArts’ most famous classics, fromMonkey IslandtoDay of the Tentacle. He sits somewhere between sentimental and pack rat, too, having kept a ton of the original documents behind the creation of these classics. Slowly but surely, he’suploading them to his website, where he explains, “Years ago I visited the LucasArts facility in the San Francisco Presidio and brought along two grocery bags of design documents. I asked if they had an archivist and I was told that since I had kept these safe for over two decades, it was best if I just kept them together.”
Our own Handsome Holmes sent in the “completely amazing” repository, noting one particular detail in theoriginal flow documentforThe Secret of Monkey Island(then known asMutiny on Monkey Island): “no breasts.”
Wilmunder’s work should put us all onno-tits; we need as many archivists of the medium as we can get to fill the industry’s annals.Check ’em out. The good thing is, because it’s LucasArts, they’re actually funny and a light read.
