Recently, Day of the Tentacle Remastered came out (which, by the way, you should go buy if you haven’t done so already). Believe it or not, we’re tangentially related to this, because during the development wrap party over at Double Fine, the Remastered team sat down to watch our old Day of the Tentacle movie!!!
While this is not the first time that the film has been viewed by Tim Schafer and co. (the first viewing we know about was at a book-release party for Rogue Leaders: A History of LucasArts in 2008), it’s always weird and exciting to have one of our films bump into one of the source material’s original creators. It’s doubly weird when it comes to our Day of the Tentacle movie, because these days it feels like sharing an old family home movie, rather than a film calculated for Internet consumption. Our Day of the Tentacle movie was made in total isolation from the rest of the world (we had no idea YouTube even existed until a few years later) and we made it solely out of love for this adventure game that was hugely influential on our sensibilities as storytellers. To see it make its way back to Tim Schafer is mind-blowing and something we never dreamed could ever happen over a decade ago.
To commemorate the long-awaited re-release of Day of the Tentacle the game, we decided to provide you guys with all our Day of the Tentacle movie-related bonus features! Previously, these were all only available on our Day of the Tentacle DVD, which has been discontinued. But now, you can enjoy this little glimpse into our chaotic, blooper-ridden way of making films back in 2005, as well as our stilted, awkward reflections from 2009 when we put the DVD together. Hopefully these videos will be good for a laugh if you’ve watched our Day of the Tentacle movie and liked its homespun charms. Enjoy!