The creator of Monkey Island is preparing a pixel rogue-like game

American indie studio Terrible Toybox, founded by the famous designer, LucasArts veteran and father of the Monkey Island series Ron Gilbert, are definitely not among the most famous and notable creative groups. At the same time, he has already managed to offer us more than one wonderful thing.

It all started in 2017 with a great retro point and click adventure game. Thimbleweed Parkfollowed some time later by Gilbert’s free experimental snippet delores foxglove park mini adventure. But the best thing happened last year in the form of the excellent adventure game Return to Monkey Island, which offered us a brand new, modern, but honest pirate adventure of the legendary Guybrush Threepwood. AND we now have some idea of ​​what Terrible Toybox has to offer next.

Through a vacancy for a pixel art artist and the Tiled tool, Terrible Toybox showed that is currently developing a top-down, pixel-art rogue-like/lite game led by Ron Gilbert.. The name of the game and other details will have to wait, but it looks like the developers are going to take a break from point and click adventure games, but at the same time there will be a return to the art style of the game. Thimbleweed Park and Delores.

Let’s also not forget that since the announcement of the adventure game Return to Monkey Island, part of the Monkey Island community has stated that it welcomes pixel art in the spirit of the first two parts of the 1990 and 1991 pirate series. Instead, we were treated to a rather idiosyncratic and not always acceptable visual rendering, but Now all indications are that the work of Terrible Toybox and pixel art will continue to go hand in hand.. So perhaps the combination of a proven art style and a different genre and concept will result in another successful novel.