A Vampyre Story: A Bat's Tale interview – Bill Tiller & Šarūnas Ledas

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As you may have heard, Bill Tiller, The Curse of Monkey Island's lead background artist, has finally got the sequel to his 2008 adventure game A Vampyre Story off the ground, with the help of the Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit development team Tag of Joy. I wanted to find out a bit more about how they're all working together, what we can expect from the new game, A Bat's Tale, and what details have stayed from the original, so I set up a live Q&A with both Bill and Šarūnas Ledas from Tag of Joy. We also delve into Bill and Šarūnas's thoughts on AI in the games industry (very interesting from both sides!) and Bill's views on Return to Monkey Island's art style, and how he'd love to redo the art in Curse to a higher degree if he had the chance. As always, feel free to check out my Twitch for these live Q&As as they happen, and enjoy the interview below!

Chapters

00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:50 – Why did the sequel take so long?
00:02:55 – Remind us about the original
00:07:11 – Tag of Joy's involvement
00:11:20 – Bill as inspiration
00:16:20 – How similar is the sequel to how you imagined in 2008?
00:21:00 – Can people who didn't play the original enjoy this straight away?
00:23:50 – What's feeling new about the mechanics?
00:28:30 – Mysterious writer (LucasArts?)
00:31:40 – Curse of Monkey Island - Jokes that QAs didn't get
00:32:49 – Murray in CofMI
00:36:00 – Thoughts on AI and art - useful tool or not?
00:47:17 – Music for the sequel
00:49:50 – Searching for a publisher
00:51:15 – A Vampyre Story A Year One - will we also see this?
00:57:30 – If you could remake any game in your style what would it be?
01:05:10 – Curse HD proof of concepts
01:09:10 – Have you been enjoying any games?
01:12:01 – Fav Choc Bar 
01:15:39 – Release date

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