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RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - EirikMyhr - 02-11-2026
Horray for Blu-ray!!
And yes, please make it region free or region 2/B for us European folks!
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - mossrc - 02-11-2026
It'll be all regions/region free. We (as in CREATORVC) sell Blu-rays directly via our crowdfunding campaigns and "flash" sales, and those are of course open to people from all around the world, so it wouldn't make much sense to do region locking.
RE: Passport to Adventure: The SCUMM Story - new documentary in the works - mossrc - 03-18-2026
Update: We got three more people confirmed for interview — Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell, SCUMM programmer Brad Taylor, and LucasArts art department head (for the first half of the 90s) Collette Michaud.
Steve is particularly exciting, as besides Sam & Max Hit the Road we can talk to him about how they were putting Sam and/or Max into everything as Easter eggs, how he made character art and fed into the creative process for Loom, his memories of painting cover art and concept art for a number of LucasArts adventures, and the things he learnt about storytelling from making adventure games (which then fed into his work at Pixar).
In not so happy news, we're coming to the end of our "validation" for the project and it's not looking likely to make it. Our numbers have been okay, at 800+ signups to the waitlist/mailing list, but most of those signups came in a single week and the slow growth outside of that doesn't inspire confidence that we could get a few thousand people to drop $50-100 (or whatever price the biz guys land on) during a month-long crowdfunding campaign.
We'll see what happens over the next week or so, but I wouldn't be surprised if my exec producer pulls the plug soon.
I have been thinking about my options for a plan B, however, and I've decided that if the documentary gets cancelled then I'll pivot to telling the SCUMM story in a book — with the nice perk that I could interview a lot more people (maybe even *all* the people) for a book, since book interviews cost nothing other than time.