A snippet from LucasArts book: Rogue Leaders
Recently, that fancy ass game development company, LucasArts put out a fancier book describing their famed past. In this book, there’s a ton of history you can learn about LucasArts and you get to see how cool they USED to be instead of the Star Wars loving, no creativity having beast that they’ve become. I mean, seriously. These guys had the best adventure games ever made and now… well, now it’s all crap.
But that’s besides the point.
The book, Rogue Leader: The Story of LucasArts, makes George Lucas look even more cocky, doesn’t it? But it does give us, the mere mortal human, an insight to some of our favorite adventure games of yore.
Check out the book summary:
Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts — In 1982, George Lucas saw potential in the fledgling videogame industry and created his own interactive-entertainment company. Twenty-five years and dozens of award-winning games later, LucasArts has earned a prestigious place in the industry and in the hearts of gamers everywhere. Rogue Leaders is the first substantive survey of a videogame company—a deluxe compilation that traces its history through never-before-published interviews. In addition, more than 300 pieces of concept art, character development sketches, and storyboards have been lavishly reproduced to showcase the creative talent behind such videogame classics as The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, as well as games that were never publicly released. A thrill for millions of videogame and LucasArts fans around the world.
Gamasutra, being the bad assed website that they are, has an excerpt from one of the chapters in Rogue Leaders that will give you a bit of a feeling as to what the book is about. I mean, why spend the $60 on the book if one chapter is crap? You can read the excerpt here. It’s about one of their first adventure games, made in the mid 1980s (when LucasArts was LucasFilm Games) called Habitat. I haven’t even heard of this game before. It’s a good thing there’s a book excerpt out there…
