How did Telltale get the Monkey Island license?
It’s been a while since there’s been a new Monkey Island game. Dave Grossman: It has been quite a while since there’s been a new Monkey Island game. Really, as long as our company has been around, we’ve been pinging LucasArts about the possibility of doing Monkey Island or some other franchise they own. You know, we did Sam & Max, but we didn’t actually go through them to do that, because that belonged to Steve Purcell. There was always somebody over there who was interested in that, but not always the right people at the right places at the right time. This is fortuitous that we asked the right questions and they had the right answers at the right particular time. They’re also doing their own revamp of The Secret of Monkey Island, and I guess they thought the idea of having some new games coming out at the same time would be good, so all of the sudden there was some agreement. It just became legal wrangling from that point. Telltale always works on an accelerated development schedule,
