Idle Thumbs 9: The Confestabaloo

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🗓️ 10 December 2008

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Our co-hosts sedated themselves a bit this week in deference to special guest Chuck Jordan, Telltale designer and veteran of Grim Fandango and Curse of Monkey Island. Amidst discussions of Disneyland and ARG-based PR, we start to plan for Games of the Year and indulge in some pomposity about Game Narrative.

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0:00.0	It's December 10th, 2008, and I fear this transmission has been compromised.
0:03.7	I'm going to make this quick.
0:05.0	This is Idlethums 9.
0:06.2	And I'm Chris Reymo.
0:07.2	I'm Nick Bracken.
0:07.8	I'm Jake Roddkin.
0:08.9	And today we are joined by Chuck Jordan of Tell Tell Games.
0:12.0	Hello, internet.
0:14.0	It'd be welcome.
0:16.0	So yeah, Chuck, you, I guess if you wanted to sort of talk a little bit about what you do at Telltale,
0:22.0	and then also you go back to LucasArts
0:25.5	where you worked on as I recall Curcome Monkey Allen and Grim Fandango.
0:28.4	That's right.
0:29.4	Yeah, he's very what you want.
0:30.3	Lucas working on Curcum on Geeallin and then G then Grim Pandango like you just said and
0:36.0	then idle stint at a spin-off company from achak, Lucas Arts employees.
0:44.0	Is that infinite machine?
0:45.0	That was an infinite machine with Justin Chen and Yan Wang.
0:48.0	They started that.
0:49.0	And then, uh, yeah, electronic arts for a few years working on SimCity and Four and Sims, and then Disney and
0:58.9	Imagineering for a while.
1:00.2	We did a really cool cell phone game at Epcot and then...
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