Retronauts Episode 250: Loom

Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As Lucasfilm Games began to refine their philosophy of fairness, designer Brian Moriarty doubled down on this concept with his idea of a video game expressly designed to be completed. This would eventually take the form of Loom, an adventure game far different than anything that would come before or after it. With no inventory, no verbs, and music as your only means of interacting with the world, Loom stands some 30 years later as an interesting evolutionary dead end for the genre. On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey and Kat Bailey, and Duckfeed.tv's Gary Butterfield as the two explore one of LucasArts' less remembered adventures.

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0:00.0	Scoop up your pudding's perfect partner with Maccase Real Day-Eye Scream,
0:04.5	made with fresh milk and cream, using their own wind and solar power.
0:08.9	Traditional honeycomb, strawberry swirl.
0:12.0	All these are resistible flavors leave me with one question.
0:15.6	Do I have one scoop or two?
0:18.4	All of Maccase Real Day-Eye Scream is made on the family farm in Scotland
0:22.9	and available nationwide at a supermarket near you.
0:26.1	Mmm Maccase, making simple, delicious.
0:30.0	This week on RetroNots, you could ask us about loom.
0:55.7	Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of RetroNots.
0:58.1	I'm your host for this one Bob Mackey, and today's topic is the 1990
1:02.6	Lucasfilm Games Adventure Game Loom before I continue whose
1:06.5	are special guests for this episode.
1:08.4	It's me, Gary, and then my last name is a part of a sewing machine that I had to look up.
1:14.2	I'm not familiar with sewing terminology, I think I learned it all from loom.
1:17.8	Yeah, we could ask about sewing terminology.
1:20.2	I read it on a popular button.
1:21.6	Popular button.
1:22.8	Was it a singer?
1:25.6	Yeah, probably, that's one.
1:27.9	You know, I grew up around sewing machines.
1:29.2	I can't tell you anything about them other than to stay away from them
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