Classic Game Postmortem: LucasFilm Games' Loom |
|
In July 2021, YouTube set all unlisted videos uploaded before 2017 to private (unless the channel owner had opted out). In the weeks leading up to this change, Archive Team archived many pre-2017 unlisted YouTube videos. If this video was uploaded before 2017 and has gone private, there is a chance that a 360p archived version can be viewed on archive.org via the site's Wayback Machine as follows: 1. Enter the YouTube URL in the Wayback Machine form or click on the following link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210000000000*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1aVDael-KM 2. Right-click on a blue entry in July in the calendar. 3. Click 'Copy link address'. 4. Paste the copied link address into your web browser's address bar and press enter.
Description: Brian Moriarty, the trailblazing author of influential Infocom games like Trinity and Beyond Zork, delivered a Classic Game Postmortem at GDC 2015 looking at the making of LucasFilm Games' groundbreaking 1990 graphic adventure game Loom. The much beloved game, a remarkably mature fantasy with an innovative musical interface, is a tour de force, and Moriarty's explanation of is creation is no less so. 
|
