Production Crate: https://bit.ly/blackthornVFX

PLAY on Windows: https://blackthornprod-games.itch.io/piece-by-piece

PLAY on Web: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/829585

Jonas Tryoller: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonasTyroller Sokpop: https://www.youtube.com/c/sokpopcollective/videos Code Monkey: https://www.youtube.com/c/CodeMonkeyUnity

Yän: https://www.youtube.com/c/Y%C3%A4nGamedev/videos

In this video, 6 game developers spend 4 hours each making a video game without any communication! Liam began work prototyping the game, then passed it on to me, then Aran from Sokpop, Jonas Tyroller, Code Monkey, and Yän!

We ended up creating a cool spaceship building/survival experience.

0:00 - Intro 0:15 - Liam 1:03 - Noa 2:27 - Sokpop 3:58 - Jonas Tryoller 7:12 - Code Monkey 9:08 - Yän

I'm finally proud to show you this little documentary I've been making for the past two or three months for the 30th anniversary of the release of The Secret of Monkey Island - The Making of Monkey Island. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it. What an honour!

Thank you to everyone who made this possible...

RON GILBERT https://twitter.com/grumpygamer https://grumpygamer.com/

DAVE GROSSMAN https://twitter.com/phrenopolis

MARK FERRARI https://twitter.com/Mawkyman http://www.markferrari.com/ https://www.twice-the-serial.com/

STEVE PURCELL http://spudvisionblog.blogspot.com/

ORSON SCOTT CARD KRISTINE CARD http://www.hatrack.com/

ADDITIONAL PIXEL ART BY - PENNEY PIXELS https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpzHE1Jo-_Igft69WVschaA

STEVE PURCELL VOICED BY - SUNSET HOTLINE https://www.youtube.com/user/minihalo

ORSON SCOTT CARD VOICED BY - JENOVI https://www.youtube.com/user/uniject

FAN CLIPS PROVIDED BY Neil at RMC - The Cave https://www.youtube.com/user/RetroManCave Matt at The Game Show UK https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGameShowUK Dave Perry - GamesAnimal TV https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW9K53Gwvhj4lfH2RtPWvqg

QUALITY ASSURANCE Matropolis https://www.youtube.com/user/Matropolis86 The Game Show https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGameShowUK

GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE PROVIDED BY World of Longplays https://www.youtube.com/user/cubex55 MrWhitman https://www.youtube.com/user/MrWhitman Kim Justice https://www.youtube.com/user/elmyrdehory Mr Eight-Three-One https://www.youtube.com/user/legoking831 Mike Shade https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClFNfD-FN6VCw-eD8s2LGVQ Major Thriftwood https://www.youtube.com/user/thriftweeds

Renaissance by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size, means two billion different people used Facebook in the preceding month.

Monkeys have been shown to mourn a robot baby they accepted as one of their own. In a new BBC show, Spy In The Wild, the monkeys gather around the artificial creature and appear to go into a state of grief.

A few years ago I watched a David Attenborough nature doc in which he narrated a scene that took place in an ancient, overgrown jungle temple. An alpha male monkey was surrounded by females, and a smaller, cheeky, male monkey waited nearby. A scene unfolds where a particular female waits for the right moment, calls the cheeky monkey over when the alpha isn't looking, and quickly mates with him, before he runs off into the jungle. What is this scene from? I would LOVE to find it again. Thanks.

Spikey Monkey by Alison Bennett / @bennett_alison • Sound =DJ My~T~JaXx Part of the #GIFbites Project for Bitrates Exhibition L↺↻p it!

So a little while ago, the stars aligned and Adult Swim (Williams Street Records actually) decided to make an Off The Air style music video for Dan Deacon's 22 minute USA suite, to coincide with the release of an Adult Swim Dan Deacon single, which he created from a folder of Library songs that we've used in Space Ghost, Aqua Teen, and Perfect Hair Forever. For me, it's almost too much to comprehend. Perfect worlds colliding, so on and so forth. But here's the video, and see the links below for the single, and the talented people we used to help put this video together. HUGE thanks to Jason DeMarco (@Clarknova1)for thinking this was a good idea. The Dan Deacon Single video.adultswim.com/music/singles-2013/ Williams Street Records video.adultswim.com/music/ Video Contributors iStock.com Andrew Benson - pixlpa.com El Hombre Y La Tierra - rtve.es/television/30-anos-sin-felix/ Eric Hines - vimeo.com/erichinesphotography NASA ISS Crew Observations - eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/ Groosland Ballet - mezzo.tv/en/our-programs/groosland-maguy-marin-het-nationaal-ballet-amsterdam Adam Bruneau - vimeo.com/user853456 Prelinger Archives - archive.org/details/prelinger Lior Ben Horin - vimeo.com/liorbenhorin Islands & Rivers - islandsandrivers.com Korduroy.tv - vimeo.com/11714524 Reel Water Productions - vimeo.com/56298775 Alan Steadman - vimeo.com/user6847830 Cody DeMatteis - codydematteis.comCast: dave hughesTags: Dan Deacon, USA, Off The Air, Adult Swim, Datamosh, Dave Hughes, Million Monkeys and whoa

The insult swordfighting from LucasArts' Monkey Island series is now available as a standalone browser game.

A new method may help to overcome some of the difficulties in comparing the human and monkey brains. To test the method, researchers scanned the brains of humans and macaque monkeys while they watched Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Their results, published in the journal Nature Methods, reveal a number of surprising differences between the functional architecture of the human and macaque brains.

The increasingly sophisticated blending of different species to create chimaeras is pushing biology into a new ethical dimension. Last year, scientists used new stem-cell technologies to create a mouse with a functioning pancreas composed entirely of rat cells. So might it soon be possible to create a monkey with a brain composed entirely of human neurons? And would it think like a human?

Such an animal might be useful to researchers studying human cognition or human-specific pathogens. But it would be ethically unacceptable and should be banned, argues a government-commissioned report from the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, a body that promotes medical research.

The document, Animals Containing Human Material , says that genetic and stem-cell technologies are now so advanced that the creation of such animals is already on the horizon. But no country has yet devised a broad regulatory framework for the research.

In an influential article in the Annual Review of Neuroscience, Joshua Gold of the University of Pennsylvania and Michael Shadlen of the University of Washington sum up experiments aimed at discovering the neural basis of decision-making. In one set of experiments, researchers attached sensors to the parts of monkeys’ brains responsible for visual pattern recognition. The monkeys were then taught to respond to a cue by choosing to look at one of two patterns. Computers reading the sensors were able to register the decision a fraction of a second before the monkeys’ eyes turned to the pattern. As the monkeys were not deliberating, but rather reacting to visual stimuli, researchers were able to plausibly claim that the computer could successfully predict the monkeys’ reaction. In other words, the computer was reading the monkeys’ minds and knew before they did what their decision would be. The implications are immediate. If researchers can in theory predict what human beings will de

About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh myself on the puzzles and dialog.

I know this will come as a shock to many of you, but I don't spend my evenings playing through Monkey Island. It's probably been 15 years since I sat down and really played it.

Much like the experience of watching the Maniac Mansion Speed Run, it bought back a lot of memories and little tid-bits of facts, so I started keeping notes and in celebration of all things Monkey Island, I thought I'd share them.

Before we begin, a couple of points:

1) Some of this I've written about before, so I apologize if I'm wasting your time. 2) I was playing the VGA version that was released after the original EGA version. The original original version used 16 colors and the inventory was text only.
4) These are only "some-what" in order. 3) You may disagree with me on some of these, and that's

Ron Gilbert (Wikipedia) recently sat down with his game, The Secret of Monkey Island, and wrote a commentary track detailing the design, secrets, and cuts made in creating the game. (via)