Ron Gilbert, creator of the beloved Monkey Island series of adventure games, admitted that making a new one would be “really complicated” because of all the companies that would have to be involved. That’s part of why he eschewed the traditional game-publisher system for his next adventure game, Thimbleweed Park 2.
Bloomberg interviewed Gilbert shortly after the announcement of Thimbleweed Park 2, and asked about the possibility of getting another Monkey Island game in the future. The last game in the series to be released was 2022’s Return to Monkey Island, which Devolver Digital published and Disney (who owns the rights to the series) was heavily involved with. Gilbert admitted that the fact that so many companies would need to be involved in a new Monkey Island would make it complicated to bring the series back.
“Now there’s Disney involved, and it’s not that they were bad — they were a good partner, creatively. But Disney, just because of the way they are, they like to work with large companies,” Gilbert explained. “They would not work with me directly, which means there would have to be somebody else like a Devolver in the mix for the whole thing. It just gets really complicated.”
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