The Making of Day of the Tentacle Remastered

Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is a mind-bending, time travel, cartoon puzzle adventure game in which three unlikely friends work together to prevent an evil mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world!
Now, over twenty years later, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects (which the original 90s marketing blurb described as ‘zany!’)
Players are able to switch back and forth between classic and remastered modes, and mix and match audio, graphics and user interface to their heart's desire. We’ve also included a concept art browser, and recorded a commentary track with the game’s original creators Tim Schafer, Dave Grossman, Larry Ahern, Peter Chan, Peter McConnell and Clint Bajakian.
Day of the Tentacle was Tim Schafer’s first game as co-project lead, and a much beloved cult classic! This special edition has been lovingly restored and remade with the care and attention that can only come from involving the game's original creators. It’s coming to Windows, OSX, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita early next year!
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[@sinancemcetin4060]

I remember when I was a kid, I got stuck in Day of The Tentacle because I was too nice to think to push an old lady down the stairs.

[@fireatwill2753]

I got stuck because I didn't know the meaning of the word "Disguise" because Im not a Native English Speaker :P

[@kalevtait7442]

Really nice to see that Skywalker Ranch archived all the old game concept art. I remember when I worked at Lionead, I had a drawer full of all the old Black and White 2 concept art that I'd collected as it was being thrown out. When I left I bequethed it to someone else, no idea who anymore, but I almost wish I'd taken it with me, especially now that Lionhead is no more.

[@warmleatherette]

Damn that convenient passing car

[@dimitreze]

I miss the docs from Broken Age. I really do. And I love to see Dave and Tim interact.

[@mmgamer9276]

+Dimitri Bitu Broken Age is on Steam for $6.24

[@AssaulteedOne]

With all those materials available for those old LucasArts games, Disney should really consider funding remastered versions of their catalogue titles to preserve these games. It's extremely rare for that many of the original source elements of a game to be in such great shape!

[@iLikeTheUDK]

I really think Loom would be quite popular nowadays. And there's a fanmade remaster of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis in the works, that the team behind which are trying to pitch to Disney, and having seen their efforts I really wish them good luck. Also, we _need_ The Curse of Monkey Island: Special Edition!

[@grayshard]

I know Tim Schafer has said publicly that he would pay Disney to purchase the Monkey Island IP, so there definitely seems to be the will for this to happen on that end. Back in the day (pre-1990 or so), Lucasfilm Games was content to license IP like Star Wars and Indiana Jones to other developers, making money without taking on any risk. It seems like Disney would be amenable to the same model with some of their properties, provided that they could be convinced the developer would maintain the level of quality they expect. I wonder if a letter campaign in support of this would help projects like Monkey Island, Loom, or Fate of Atlantis remasters gain traction. With a group of the caliber of Double Fine behind the project, I could see this being possible.

[@Phaota]

I'm so happy my favorite game has finally been remastered. Now on to "Full Throttle". Though Tim didn't make them, I'd love to see remastered versions of "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" and "Sam & Max Hit The Road".

[@iLikeTheUDK]

There's a remaster of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis in the works, actually. It's fanmade, but it's really nice IMO. The team behind it are a sort-of company that go by the (admittedly unusual) name of "Went2Play", and they're trying to pitch it to Disney and Lucasfilm. You can go check it out.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

Yup, as project lead Patrik Spacek said himself.

[@Phaota]

Nice. Hope it happens, if Disney gives it a go.

[@brittanyisaketten]

and talking about lucas arts , rebel assault and dark forces trilogy :)

[@kronisy]

+Phaota Exactly my feelings. I would add "Monkey Island: the curse of Monkey Island" which in my opinion, along with "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis", "Sam & Max Hit The Road", "Full Throttle"and "Day of The Tentacle" make the top 5 adventure games of all time.

[@rayfielding8912]

You guys are legends, thank you for resurrecting this classic and having Full Throttle not far off. Please consider The Dig and Indiana Jones if you guys can, they were gold then and will be gold in this day and age.

[@indeimaus]

Love these documentaries guys, keep doing them!

[@rick-deckard]

+Indeimaus Heck yea. I would patreon the heeeeck outta 2 Player Prod.

[@GreenEyedDazzler]

I want to work on a team as passionate as the OGs that worked on the original day of the tentacle. Tim, Ron, and Dave are legends. Absolute heroes to me

[@Tetramir1]

Great video. But, seeing the illustrations I feel the same as i did on the secret of monkey island SE: I want the original artworks as the backgrounds! They look so darn fantastic!!

[@davidm2364]

Thanks for posting this, very informative. When I first saw the DOTT remastered screenshots, I was disappointed that the art had been upscaled and traced, rather than going back to the original paintings. But now I can see that the paintings were drawn in a way to make them read well at 320x240 back in the day, so that wouldn't have worked now. Can't wait to play this all over again.

[@TheBroz]

Just purchased on iOS. DOTT was the first game I ever bought for PC and is still one of my favourites.

[@Hedeltrollo]

Thank you so much.

[@GreatLokeOfMoonRoad]

Just bought it. Time to relive some good old adventuregame-memories again. :D

[@SquirrelMonkeyCom]

The best remake ever made. It improved and honored the original version. The programmers couldn't have done a better job.

[@jpfaraco]

This game is a big part of my childhood. I am so excited to play it again, in full res, as I remember it from the day! The extra content is fantastic. Thank you Tim and Double Fine for all the fun, and now this warm nostalgia. You guys are legends.

[@ThomasMink]

A fantastic game. I LOVE the art upgrade and such.. and the options to use classic things like music and the verb bar. All it's missing is an option for classic sound effects. I don't mean that as a knock or anything.. but.. when I first heard the tentacles 'walk', it was kinda off-putting. I miss those sounds in particular way too much because hearing the tentacles slowly unpaste and paste themselves as they moved around were my favorites as a kid. :)

[@ZombieOrgasm]

+ThomasMink Same. You can tell a lot of labor and love went into this project though, so I was able to quickly look past that. But... I won't lie the first thing that I noticed was the tentacle walk sound not being the same. Haha. Oh well.

[@spock84]

If that original art ever comes up for sale, I'll be very broke.

[@DoomKickTV]

You guys killed it on the DOTT remaster! Great Job!

[@EdvandoJunior]

Wow, I love this game!! I need to buy again! Please, remastered "THE DIG" too. Thank you guys

[@Umbrella2]

God! Double Fine have quite a few classic and amazing games under their belt!

[@ronbaldwin6382]

Awesome to see y'all together! Wow! Larry, Peter, and Clint too! Was that Mike at the right end of the table with y'all? Keep having fun!

[@nefrone]

The only thing I wanted more from Remastered was commentary. Otherwise I loved it. Thanks everyone.

[@jimmysgameclips]

This is a total gem of a thing for people like me who were sad when the DF Documentary ran out of episodes to watch

[@RMJ1984]

Awesome documentary :) love these behind the scenes of the making.

[@PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath]

just found your channel... ugh the feels. this was a great minidoc.

[@shevek161]

This is so amazing and so awesome. Thanks Double Fine

[@TheThagenesis]

awesome!! I bought it blind on day1 because I trusted you guys with this and it was a really pleasant surprise that all the scenes have been redone in 16:9 this must've been an awful lot of work(but it's worth it when I compare it to my 14" CRT back then). I'm only a few hours in but I remember SO much stuff - it's great

[@psychoflashdrive4564]

This video just makes me wanna rewatch the Double Fine Adventure series. I love these types of videos.

[@millicent1990]

amazing game, it would be fantastic if they made another one.

[@wedgantilles]

Great making of. I surely look forwardthe remaster of Full Throttle too, and I really hope other games like Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig and Sam & Max could get the same treatment as the data seems to be here in the archive that would be so nice. Even if they are not Tim's games in the way DOTT, Grim and Full Throttle are there are still so great games from Lucas Arts era, and I sure would definitely like to see Dig come back just loved that game :D

[@BennSimonn]

You and the clown were having a party? You and the clown were having a party?

[@jotarodotcom]

9:53 I find it reassuring that the assets from the Indiana Jones games are being handled by top men.

[@mariusfinnstun]

This is awesome! Thank you!

[@jimmysgameclips]

*{50 years from now}* "So yeah this remaster of Broken Age is gonna be tricky because it was all originally *hand drawn*! 2D! What an age... So now we have to convert this all to 4D so that we can play the game in alternate realities and if someone wanted to complete all 10 hours of it within 3 minutes on their lunch break at work they can. Unfortunately the 'head of Tim Schafer in a jars' bionic telepathic brain implants are playing up so we have to use this old fashioned 'quantum space email' technology to ask him any questions we have whilst he's away at his vacation in the Andromeda Galaxy"

[@averagefez]

Are people still mad about this?

[@khaledzaidan]

@@averagefez

[@sannakarppinen4163]

I M HAPPY that the day of the tentacle is coming to the xbox game pass this month

[@fireaza]

Games really need more of these behind-the-scenes videos made by the people who were involved. You're doing God's work, DoubleFine! Now, how about Sam & Max remastered, eh?

[@lkamenicky]

Ever thought of making some sort of "Art of" book? Since you have an access to such a huge amount of all this amazing artwork. Maybe combining art from both the old LucasArts times and also the more recent Double Fine days? I would definitely buy a book that would feature concept art and some insight into the development of all those great adventure games plus Psychonauts, Brutal Legend or say Broken Age.

[@travellerinthedark]

+Lukáš Kamenický I know an Art of Broken Age book is coming to stores in May/June. And there's an Art of Brutal Legend book on the DF website store.

[@hannibalsolo4409]

I hope me buying the remastered edition makes up for my friends pirating the original back in the day. My friends. I am not legally obligated to incriminate myself. Best game ever, though.

[@christophermelby7868]

+Hannibal Solo, I'm replying to your thread, because my comments aren't showing up! I still own the original games and have bought them again and again.

[@peacefulcello]

6:24 any lipreaders around?

[@sonofbeardman]

Looking forward to playing this (and remastered Full Throttle whenever that comes out) for the first time! Plus it keeps my fingers crossed regarding the old LucasArts adventure games that I grew up playing (e.g The Curse of Monkey Island) potentially being remastered, as well as the first two Monkey Island remasters from a few years back being re-released on modern consoles so I can play them again :)

[@galten7361]

If a Maniac Mansion 3 follows a pattern set by Day of the Tentacle then it'd follow Hoagie or Laverne with different parties.

[@toxicrhythmz3718]

best game ever

[@TheDeadPickle]

5:00 Imagine if the stitches in your clothes were sown so that they would make jokes, then you would have clothes of the same magical quality as a (double) fine game developed by Tim Schafer and his team.

[@ivansexy182]

Awesome Job, Please remake the others point n click classics, Sam & max, full throttle,etc

[@tetepeb]

I would love to look around at the Skywalker Ranch archive, the adventure games from Lucasarts is my favorite games of all time.

[@IamYuto]

Love it! Can't wait for the Psychonauts 2 documentary.

[@jesustheres]

You had the original background paintings and you didnt use them for the game?

[@grayshard]

I think they do a pretty good job of explaining their reasoning for this at about the 10:00 mark. Peter Chan points out that the original art was optimized for display at 320x240, incorporating lessons learned from Monkey Island 2. The remastered version uses artwork upscaled from the final digital art to improve the display quality while maintaining fidelity to the original game. Also, if you want to see the background art, there is a concept art browser in the remaster.

[@nicandbrendan]

Please remake Zak MacKraken and the alien mindbenders.... I never completed it back then.

[@garrettbenson8925]

Tim they never made the mouse pad for commercial use but I vividly remember having one as a kid. I can't prove since i don't have it anymore but yeah. Also great game.

[@LeonardGr]

I want see remastered version of Maniac Mansion

[@BennSimonn]

+LeonardGreenland Check out Lucasfan Games' Maniac Mansion Deluxe. They also made a sequel to Zak McKracken and would have made a Raiders of the Lost Ark point and click adventure game had they not received a cease and desist letter from LucasArts.

[@LeonardGr]

Who's Ron?

[@positronalpha]

+LeonardGreenland If that was a serious question: Ron Gilbert.

[@zissou6928]

DF is a Happy Engine

[@Kschreck]

Where's Day of the Tentacle 3? Lol. I hope it's something you guys eventually make. :)

[@rubenthehuman]

Graphics Gems, nice books

[@ubima]

What's the name of the third game!

[@writeforanimation]

Now please do INDIANA JONES AND THE FATE OF ATLANTIS!

[@Gpalmer16]

Woot woot!

[@tocram83]

Next one is Full Throttle right? And then Full Throttle 2, am I right?

[@grayshard]

Yes and no. The Full Throttle remaster releases April 2017. The sequel was at one point in production but was canceled. And very unfortunately, the voice actor for Ben (Roy Conrad) has passed away, which makes it more difficult to complete a sequel.

[@lepourceletbarthelemy6555]

Now just imagine if we could have made a movie from this game with Woody Allen as Bernard, Louis de Funès as Dr Fred, and Sébastien Rassiat (a famous french youtuber who made "attic player" with Frédéric Molas) as Hoagie. Feel free to answer with your own castings.

[@date2077]

This is the best game!

[@vinniciusrosa8284]

9:43 First and final version of The Dig "I suppooose".

[@sloppynyuszi]

fascinating commentary, but I'm not a fan of the art remaster, it looks like you guys just used line trace on all assets in illustrator. I just play it in classic mode, and I'm just happy to have it on my iPad whenever I am on a long flight and not trying something new. A high res scan of the original backgrounds and maybe a redraw in the style of Monkey island 3

[@BennSimonn]

I thought Loom's 1992 re-release was the first LucasArts "talkie," followed by the re-release of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

[@stephenaceituno]

This game scared the crap out of me as a child why would you bring it back 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@JJiG]

I cannot wait for this remake. I've played the original so much. I wish they would remake Monkey Island games like this, and not the terrible cartoon remakes on steam.

[@rick-deckard]

i want more :'(

[@daggusmaximus177]

I really like the part about all the original concept art being kept in good quality. Would be soo cool to get hi-res scans of that, even if its not the original... Its a shame that the same standard wasnt kept for the other big adventure game company Sierra, which art was all just dumped in boxes in janitor storage closets and random rooms of all things, stacked up without any care, then when the company went bust was just thrown away en masse in big dumpsters.

[@grayshard]

Not sure what resolution the scans are in the concept art browser, but should be good enough to really appreciate the work that Peter Chan created.

[@godlikecat]

I NEED FULL THROTTLE REMASTERED NOW FOR GOD'S SAKE

[@bigmikebjsr]

THIS GAME IS FREE ON PS4 THIS MONTH WITH A PLUS MEMBERSHIP. I JUS DOWNLOADED IT AND CANT WAIT TO PLAY. SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS

[@carrottoponcrak]

So......who can read lips and discover the title for MM3? 6:25

[@14Lokas]

🙏

[@StamatisStabos]

we want HERCS ANDVENTURES remastered pleeeeaase!!!

[@svm8298]

They´re like middle age bernard and hogie

[@sillkthashocker]

The Dig Remaster? 🥺

[@jim0_o]

Full Throttle next? that game really had that complicated source art issue and could benefit of the upgrade. Since (I assume) you have the scaffolding for upgrading a SCUMM game now its the perfect time for it?

[@Truubits]

They are already working on it!

[@BlueFlashProductions]

+Jim R. Didriksen I thought they confirmed they're doing Full Throttle next at PSX.

[@armandogavilan1815]

Do a sequel, the tree main characters on another planet or whatever

[@feature-creature]

Any lip readers figure out what the sequel would be called?

[@Solinaru]

Frog Fractions 3

[@nitebone]

+gregallagher I want to know too... It looked like he said "I Love ..."

[@rick-deckard]

+Solaru C Giant Bomb?

[@SpacePirateRidley]

+gregallagher "Day of the Animal", maybe?

[@blueplanet9917]

Indiana the Animal

[@panda_paw4976]

The one guy with the red hair has a sailor moon hoodie on.

[@robertpaulson2043]

Day of the Tentacle 3 when???

[@spicym7669]

They should remaster full throttle

[@matthansen7249]

We did

[@savinprivtemike]

what about battlefront 3 is that in there some wear

[@drydessert4198]

Mac OS X planned?

[@warmleatherette]

+Dry Dessert it's out now, on os x too store.steampowered.com/app/388210

[@drydessert4198]

Thank you. When GOG announced their Pre-Order, Mac was missing. Now they have added it. Very happy to see that. A classic truly worth the fresh polishing. :)

[@sepixsound]

Any lip readers out there, able to make out the title?

[@ced214]

I'm here because of the vita version

[@kendoWTL]

3:39 "Code Complete" Your developers have damn good taste in reading material. Also, how do you get the old source? Is it locked in vault somewhere on a floppy or did you have to reverse engineer the game from assembly? Either way I assume you rewrote most of the legacy code. You are using Visual Studio so I am assuming C# or CPP for your backend. Probably CPP because I have never seen that kind of syntax in C#.

[@DustinKoski]

Why don't you guys monetize these!? It's dozens of dollars going to waste!

[@battlesix2]

+Dustin Koski because they are cool

[@DustinKoski]

+Battlesix There's nothing uncool about being compensated for quality videos.

[@sonic23233]

Didn't Disney own this

[@maxwell_edison]

Dark Souls remaster team, take note.

[@GUSTA99X]

Android?😥😥😥