The debut of the Day of the Tentacle Remastered playable demo at IndieCade made some waves, with revamped graphics, and new info about the remake arose over the weekend.
In an interview, Double Fine VP of Development Matt Hansen stated that the original Maniac Mansion will be in Day of the Tentacle Remastered, as it was in the original 1993 game, but it won’t be remastered. The game will be exactly as it was when it was released in the mid-80’s.
Founder Tim Schafer revealed In a separate interview, ”It just felt like this was the right time to do it, because there’s a window I felt was kind of closing. All the people who worked on it were still in the industry. The archives, we knew where they were. In a few more years, I don’t really know what would have happened. That stuff could have been lost, so it was kind of now or never. We really believe in having the original creators of the original game do the remasters.”
He then teased, ”We’ll see how it goes. There’s definitely one more, my game, that I’d like to see. But I believe that the original creators should do the remasters. So if we were gonna do something like one of the other games, it would only be if the original creator wanted to work on it with us.” The one more game could either be Maniac Mansion or Schafer’s biker classic Full Throttle.
