Monkey Island: Emotions in Monkey Island
This was a working concept demo, created during a design thinking workshop, in June 2019. The actual demo is not available.
Market
- 1.3 (b) gamers during 2018, estimated to grow to 1.4 (b) by 2021 [1]
- Estimated old-school gamers: 10%
- Remastered versions:
- Including state-of-the-art technology to increase user experience
- Sales closely comparable or exceeding those of the original versions
- Resident Evil [2]:
- Original has sold 4.92 (m) units (1988-present)
- Remastered has sold 4.2 (m) units (2018-2019)
- Targeting a gamer community engaged in new experiences of old and nostalgic content
- Weak competition in terms of emotional interaction content
Game Study
Secret of Monkey Island (1990, remake: 2009) includes a pirate dueling minigame.
Based on a set of available options, engage with an insult or comeback to the NPC.
Lose the duel after inappropriate insults / comebacks.
Emotion Aware Game-Play
- Enhanced version of the original game (powered by OliverAPI).
- Incorporate Speech Emotion Recognition in your insults.
- An insult should be expressed in an angry and strong manner!
- Players feel more emerged, capable to change the flow of the game.
- A web adapted version of the game attracted the creator of the original version (Ron Gilbert)
- An emotion enhanced version would convince him to remake it!
“It’s not always what you how do but what you say”
– Capitain Smirk
Business Plan
- 2020 is the 30th year game anniversary
- Create a stable version and publish to the game community
- Web-adapted version also available for mobiles
- Work towards increasing community awareness by utilizing game channels
- Upcoming extensions:
- Roleplay
- Characters associated with human behaviors
- Expand the character’s development
- Include new features as the game unfolds
- Multiplayer
- Enjoy a game of insults with your friends
- Roleplay
- Contact Ron Gilbert / Disney to launch a remaster version
“It’s not always what you how do but what you say”
– Capitain Smirk
Team
Team :
- Spiros Georgiladakis
- Ioakim Revythas
- Giorgos Pantazopoulos
Credits
Monkey Island is a series of adventure games. The first four games in the series were produced and published by LucasArts, earlier known as Lucasfilm Games. The fifth installment of the franchise was developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with LucasArts. A sixth game was developed by Terrible Toybox in cooperation with Lucasfilm Games and Devolver Digital.
