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Just seen this!

http://www.geeksnack.com/2015/10/23/day-of-the-tentacle-special-edition-to-receive-new-details-screenshots-later-today/

New screenshots will come later

This is a good news for me, because that’s one adventure game I never got to play! (ouch, please, stop with those rocks! :p) I was more into the Sierra games at the time.

Ah! I wasn’t aware of it, sorry for starting another topic in that case

Let’s hope that the game does actually look like how it’s on that picture: an actually upgraded version of the art style that was good to begin with. It would be a damned shame if they’d manage to f-up the same way the devs did on MI1 remake (on a side note though, I like MI2 remake quite a bit.)

Caliburn - 23 October 2015 11:02 PM

Here’s some screenshots:

http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/23/9605322/day-of-the-tentacle-remastered-screenshots

Edit: Oh, and this Eurogamer article describes some of the features:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-10-23-day-of-the-tentacle-remastered-debuts-screenshots

This restoration will feature all new hand-drawn, high-res artwork along with remastered audio, music and sound effects.

There will also be a commentary track by the game’s original creators: Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Larry Ahern, Peter Chan, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian.

As was the case with the Special Editions of Monkey Island 1 & 2, Day of the Tentacle Remastered will allow you to toggle between the new and old artwork at the touch of a button. It will also feature an optional new UI should you want to play with a verb dial rather than a grid of commands at the bottom of the screen.

Just like the original Day of the Tentacle, this restoration will contain the entirety of Maniac Mansion as an in-game bonus.

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Schaefer and Double Fine also plan to bring out more beloved Lucasarts games in the future.

hmm, that a clear unannounced announcement of Full Throttle…

I’m excited for this!

Man, that looks very nice. So nice in fact, that it made me wonder if they found the original artwork from somewhere and re-scanned it, as it seems to be pretty much 1:1 with the original.

Here’s the comparision pic in fullscreen: http://apps.voxmedia.com/at/polygon-day-of-the-tentacle-remastered/?initialWidth=662&childId=polygon-day-of-the-tentacle-remastered__graphic

So, so nice.

after a brisk nap - 24 October 2015 03:19 AM

They’ve probably just run the backgrounds through VectorMagic or some similar program and then cleaned them up a little by hand. That should work well enough given the art style. I think I can even see a couple of vectorization errors they didn’t catch in that comparison screen.

I asked about this at DF forums and got an replay that states that all the background art is re-drawn from scratch. So any vectorizarion errors you think you see, are not that.