Grim Fandango puzzle/design document released

[Thrik]

Pretty awesome if you liked Grim Fandango and/or would appreciate a glimpse into a true classic's creative documentation. To quote myself:

Tim Schafer has just dropped a pretty awesome surprise on our laps to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Grim Fandango: the original Grim Fandango puzzle/design document.

Written in 1996, this mostly-complete document details the cut-scenes and puzzles in the game. What makes this particularly fascinating is that it's packed with concept art and descriptions of scenes/puzzles that were cut from the game, giving us an insight into a slightly different Grim Fandango.

http://www.mixnmojo.com/php/news/showfi ... asartsnews

BTW if you want to be awesome and highly approved by Thrik, Digg this: http://digg.com/pc_games/Grim_Fandango_ ... t_released

[Chunks]

Awesome.

Somewhat related; there is a design doc of the napolean level from psychonauts in this book : http://www.amazon.com/Level-Design-Game ... 104&sr=8-1

It is an interesting read, and luckily my favorite pyschonauts level.

[Sa74n]

how fucking awesome is this?!

THANKS!

[Bic-B@ll]

dugg it. i never played the game, when i attempted to a few months ago it wouldnt run on my pc. awesome art in the document though and interesting to see, i love the very end "to protect this document please restrict your fallen tears of joy to this box -->"

[JohnC]

Kustom Kulture in a video game? I'm stunned. Someday I'll play it.

[Mazy]

Its brilliant! I'd love to see design docs from more of the old Lucasarts games~

[Chunks]

Hey, does anyone still have this? Looks like it is no longer public. I upgraded to vista and apparently forgot to put it with all my other back-up stuff.

[General Vivi]

yes indeed.... it looks like they took it down. Anyone have a copy dled? I would love to see it.

[Furyo]

I do. Send me a PM with your email address if you want it.

[skdr]

Send it to me, I can host it so you don't have to send multiple emails.

arttum at gmail com

[Meotwister]

Man I landed on the Doublefine website when reading up on this and I spent like 3 hours on it looking at random random things.

[Furyo]

Send it to me, I can host it so you don't have to send multiple emails.

arttum at gmail com

I could host it too, I just wanted to respect their own decision not to mass distribute it anymore

[Sindwiller]

Send it to me, I can host it so you don't have to send multiple emails.

arttum at gmail com

I could host it too, I just wanted to respect their own decision not to mass distribute it anymore

That is lost knowledge That's like releasing one single print run of a book, which is a decision that must be respected, which however does not mean that you can't lend the book you've got of that exact print run to friends or something.

[Taylor]

If you're inclined, you can find it just following the update link in the article...

[⌐■_■]

although that particular link is down, this one isnt:

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resource ... ll.pdf.zip