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The Curse of Monkey Island
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November 25, 1997 |  |
When I was assigned to The Curse of Monkey Island, I was quite excited. I mean, who wouldn't want to be involved in the third installment of the greatest adventure game series of all time.
My first goal: play Monkey Island one and two. So, I played the originals (yeah, the life of a tester is a hard one) and after numerous hints and tips, I was done and ready to test away.
Quick call to Chris Purvis and Chuck Jordan, the Curse programmers:
"I'm ready to DESTROY...uh, I mean play your game!"
"Sure, Dan. We're just about to burn the first version. You'll get a disc right after lunch."
Later that decade, I received my version and embarked on the newest adventures of Guybrush Threepwood. Granted, it wasn't much to look at. The art was all temporary, made up of pencil sketches and character animations stolen from The Dig and Full Throttle, but at least I was playing. Then WHOOPS! I found my first bug. I made another quick call, this time to Jonathan Ackley, one of the Curse project leaders.
"Uh...Jonathan, The Curse of Monkey Island just initialized my modem and is using my credit card numbers to order several expensive cheese platters and a hardbound edition of Alfred Hitchcock's Diet Secrets."
"Oh, my. That does sound serious. I'll be sure to fix that in the next version."
"It seems they're to be delivered to your home address."
"Welljustlookatthetimegottagobye."
So a few weeks later I have my team of testers. We're playing and breaking, playing and breaking. Nothing's better than being on a project from the beginning - you get all the cool bugs. Examples: Bug #57: Guybrush's head is on backwards. Bug #84: Guybrush's head is on forward, but now his body is on backwards.
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