A couple of months ago, I conducted a pretty lengthy interview with adventure gaming legend Ron Gilbert (The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, Maniac Mansion, etc.), and for various complicated reasons it was only just published yesterday on Gamasutra. We discuss Gilbert’s recent projects, including his own title DeathSpank and its Diablo influence (yes), how he feels about the game industry these days, and the merits of the Hollywood production system.

It was nice to see Gilbert a whole lot more cheerful about the industry than he was the last time I interviewed him, then alongside my colleague Jake Rodkin–although something that didn’t change was my vaguely embarrassing tendency to start asking four-paragraph questions toward the end.

As before, he was a good sport about it.