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Retronauts Episode 250: Loom

2019/10/4
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Retronauts

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As Lucasfilm Games began to refine their philosophy of fairness, designer Brian Moriarty doubled down on this concept with his idea of a video game expressly designed to be completed. This would eventually take the form of Loom, an adventure game far different than anything that would come before or after it. With no inventory, no verbs, and music as your only means of interacting with the world, Loom stands some 30 years later as an interesting evolutionary dead end for the genre. On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey and Kat Bailey), and Duckfeed.tv's) Gary Butterfield) as the two explore one of LucasArts' less remembered adventures.