Monkey Business
Robe Gilbert
What was your favourite Easter egg?
I don’t know if you’d call it an Easter egg, but certainly Guybrush dying after spending ten minutes underwater. I don’t know how often that happens to people or if they figure out the puzzle within ten minutes – it certainly wasn’t meant to be a super hard puzzle.
When you were writing jokes, did you have any particular audience in mind?
I didn’t really think about, ‘Oh there’s this type of person I want to appeal to, so I should make these kinds of jokes, but not make these kind of jokes.’ The team was just entertaining ourselves making this game and we were all laughing at it.
How did you decide who would write what?
When I would look at a section of the game, depending on the humour that I wanted for it, I would decide which of the three of us was going to write that. Dave Grossman has a very sophisticated, slightly sarcastic type of humour to him, so if there were scenes that I thought called for that, I would have Dave work on those.
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