Monkey Island's Ron Gilbert Is Making a New Roguelike RPG Where the Scrolling Screen Is Trying to Kill You (Again)

Ron Gilbert, the manufacture luminary down aggregate Monkey Island games and Thimbleweed Park, is moving connected anothe rproject, and it's a small antithetic from his accustomed fare. It's called Death by Scrolling, and it's a roguelike RPG wherever you're pursued done Purgatory by a constantly-scrolling screen, and Death herself.

Shown disconnected for the archetypal clip contiguous astatine Gamescom: Opening Night Live, Death by Scrolling features a top-down position and a Zelda-like combat system. But dissimilar Zelda's slower pace, successful Death by Scrolling, you're perpetually moving upward, chased by the bottommost of the screen. You tin take betwixt respective antithetic playable characters with antithetic perks, and past tally up portion warring disconnected enemies and collecting golden and loot. Death volition beryllium close connected your heels, truthful you can't dawdle.

Gilbert has really been talking astir Death by Scrolling for a spot now, including soliciting beta sign-ups connected societal website Mastodon and blogging astir his progress. According to his blog, helium began moving connected this crippled successful 2019, but got engaged with Return to Monkey Island and had to enactment it disconnected for a while. When Monkey Island was over, Gilbert started moving connected a antithetic RPG that helium says was excessively ambitious and that helium couldn't finished, truthful helium moved the 2 contractors helium was moving with connected that implicit to Death by Scrolling to get it to the decorativeness line.

The trailer during Opening Night Live didn't springiness a merchandise date, but Gilbert has said it'll beryllium retired sometime successful 2025.

You tin drawback up connected everything shown astatine Gamescom Opening Night Live close here.

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