The Legend of Monkey Island: How Sea of Thieves Is Translating Monkey Island’s Story, Gameplay, and More - an Exclusive Interview - Xbox Wire
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When it appeared in last month’s Xbox Games Showcase, we spoke with creative director Mike Chapman about how The Legend of Monkey Island came to be and what it was setting out to do. But was that enough? Of course not – there’s so much more to talk about in this landmark crossover between Sea […]

There’s some spoilers in here for those of you that don’t want to know anything…

but there’s also some REALLY good stuff in here…

for instance:

The mechanics we’ve created for Legend of Monkey Island will share technology forward to the main sandbox. We’ve overhauled our NPC dialogue system, so we can now have fully voiced characters, and there’s now AI pathing for NPC characters, so characters can move around in the world freely operating under their own brain. There’s little mechanical elements as well – like we’ve added zip lines to these Monkey Island Tales, which I’d love to see make their way to the shared world.