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Tim Schafer in Plaboy with a very tasteful photo shoot.
dontstaylong \| 10:01 AM on 11.07.2007	6 comments

For all you Monkey Island and Full Throttle fans out there (and that damn well better be all of you), Playboy just did a pretty fantastic interview with one Mr. Tim Schafer as a part of their Geniuses at Play series of interviews with game designers.

There's a really vibrant fan community for adventure games online. And now people are making their own adventure games because the industry has not produced much for them, so this void has been filled somewhat by the fans making their own homebrewed games, which is great.

I'm glad to see that people in the industry realize how big of a fanbase adventure gaming still has. He does have a point, sadly, the audience for adventure games did not grow as quickly as FPS or other audiences did, and that's why it was largely left behind.

Regardless, it's a great read, check it out here.

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6 comments | showing # 1 to 6

MaxVest

He says when Monkey Island II came out it sold 25,000 copies?!?! Travesty!

Nice find, thankfully NNSFW.

MechaMonkey

Playboy is slowly becoming a gaming magazine...

king3vbo

Thank god he aint naked

Upgrayedd

@MechaMonkey: Hopefully their reviews will be better than Maxim's then.

Anyway, that is a great interview. I really love all the stuff about storytelling and general in industry insight.

blehman

Did anyone else see the playboy interview with Kane from Kane and Lynch? They put it in the magazine like it was the real interview. Cheesy, but fun.

Eschatos

Goddamnit, I wanted him to have a centerfold.

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