With the intention of speaking with former LucasArts employees to craft Passport to Adventure, a documentary about the history of the game-changing SCUMM engine (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) that powered the point-and-click classics of the late 80’s and into the 90’s, a new documentary is being developed by Melbourne based writer and historian Richard Moss and producer Daniel Richardson. The doc will be speaking with Ron Gilbert (Creator, SCUMM and Monkey Island), David Fox (Designer, Zak McKracken), Tami Borowick (Co-writer/Designer, Monkey Island 2 & Freddi Fish) and Mark Ferrari (Artist, Monkey Island, Loom, Zak McKracken), and is sure to be of great interest for anyone familiar and nostalgic with that great gaming era.
Passport to Adventure will peer behind the troop of three-headed monkeys and into the world’s largest ball of twine to discover the inner workings of both the games and the engine that revolutionized a genre and ushered in a golden age of point-and-click adventures.
Guided by interviews with key figures from the LucasArts SCUMM era, the film will be a joyful and in-depth retrospective journey through the travails of SCUMM development, the litany of influences and Easter eggs, the magnificent art, and the best (and worst) moments of the entire lineup of games made with the SCUMM engine — including the first three Monkey Islands, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Maniac Mansion, Loom, and many more.