Loom (video game)
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Loom is a 1990 fantasy-themed graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games for MS-DOS. The project was led by Brian Moriarty, a former Infocom employee and author of classic text
Cover art by Mark Ferrari
LucasArts adventure games
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From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, LucasArts was well known for their point-and-click graphic adventure games, nearly all of which got high scoring reviews at the time of their release. Their sty
Loom (video game)
…to use the SCUMM adventure game engine, and the first of those to avoid the verb–object interface introduced in Maniac Mansion. A departure from other Lucasfilm adventure games in many senses, Loom is based on a serious and complex fantasy story. With its experimental interface, it eschewed the traditional paradigm of graphical…
The LucasArts "golden guy" logo, used during the company's adventure game golden years
Maniac Mansion (1987) introduced SCUMM, the engine behind most of LucasArts' adventure games.
The user interface was redesigned for Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993) to dedicate more space to visuals.
The cartoon graphics of The Curse of Monkey Island (1997) marked the pinnacle of SCUMM development.