I owe a lot to a guy named Rob Cowles who had been in Marketing at LucasArts and had rescued the sound department backups when LucasArts was acquired. Finding the people who knew which inner recesses of the archives might contain the data was a job in and of itself. What condition were the original audio files in when you got your hands on them – did you manage to recover everything from the original game?įrom a musical point of view I like to call Grim Remastered “Grim re-arranged, re-voiced, re-orchestrated, re-recorded, re-mixed, re-mastered and – most of all – retrieved.” Getting that data actually took months. It’s truly amazing how many “friends of Grim” there are out there. Some of these people had worked on it, some had grown up with it as a favourite game. Then it turned out I was wrong – it turned out that there were folks at Disney, at LucasArts, at Sony and of course at Double Fine, who wanted to revisit it, too. But I had long given up on the idea that it could ever happen. Well I had always wanted the opportunity to revisit Grim because, while the original jazz music came out great, the “orchestral” music was all done with 1997-era samples and didn’t come close to what I imagined it could be like. How did you feel when you realised you were going to get the opportunity to remaster the soundtrack? Was that always part of the original remastering plan? I couldn’t believe it! How often in life do you get a do-over of something you really care about? You’ve continued to have a great working relationship with Double Fine Productions and Tim Schafer – do you remember when you first heard the news about Grim Fandango Remastered? Zombies: Garden Warfare, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Costume Quest and Grim Fandango Remastered. Since then I’ve been lucky to work on a bunch of cool projects: Broken Age, Plants vs. What have you been up to since we last spoke in 2012?Īt the beginning of 2012 I was just finishing Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. Hello Mr McConnell, thank you for your time and welcome back to Alternative Magazine Online!
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