Indie Retro News: Gilbert Goodmate

If you happen to fancy some unreleased goodness to check out in your Amiga, then be sure to take a look at the newest sport of Gilbert Goodmate aka Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria, by Crystal Interactive. An unreleased Amiga Monkey Island impressed graphic journey sport that did later made an look on the PC. To coincide with this information story, we have got some particulars in regards to the sport which has been sourced by way of our good associates GamesThatWeren’t, in addition to some gameplay footage from Saberman.

And briefly this is the newest from the web site which incorporates due to Tony Aksnes! “Our subsequent entry is for a Monkey Island impressed graphic journey sport known as Gilbert Goodmate which was finally launched on PC, however was resulting from have a launch on the Amiga too. The sport began out initially as a pastime mission in 1996. It obtained picked up initially by Alive Mediasoft, earlier than being picked up by Crystal Interactive with plans for launch in 1998. Evidently this was one other casualty of a fading Amiga market on the time, and so the main target was switched to the PC version – which finally noticed launch in 2001, printed by FastTrak Software program”.

There have been plans for:

35-40 superbly hand drawn areas.
15-20 protracker modules.
Not less than 4000 frames of animation. (Gilbert himself is made up of over 200 frames).
Digitized speech for each character showing within the sport.
A really intuitive user-interface.
Stock close-ups of sure objects.
A very entertaining storyline.

Additional Notes : “Lately in Might 2025, one of many builders – Daniel Edfeldt posted on-line in regards to the title, and shared some uncommon screenshots from the Amiga model that haven’t been seen earlier than. These may be discovered beneath within the gallery. It’s hoped that resulting from these screens, a way more full model exists that would some day be preserved”