How is Monkey Island Written?

DeLuca

Okay so a book goes:

On a dark and stormy night Guybrush walked up to the lookout station and said "lo there stranger, you're beard is long and might catch fire. Also I am fancy."

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And a movie goes

SCENE: The lookout post atop a mountain. A sheer cliff looks out onto the empty Caribbean Sea at night. LOOKOUT stands watch in a dark clothes and a sweeping white beard.

GUYBRUSH enters from the stairs.

GUYBRUSH
Lo there strange, your beard is long and might catch fire.

He pauses.

GUYBRUSH
Also I am fancy

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But how is a game written?

Visstix

I think it's the same way as a movie.

Kroms

I remember Tim Schafer mentioning he writes his dialogue in Excel. I would assume it's less of a traditional screenplay and more of a flowchart with dialogue written-in (aka something like Excel).

DeLuca

For the specific dialogue trees yes, but what about the game as a whole? It has to be some sort of script showing how the story goes, then trees and separate files for each character or item you can interact with.

JedExodus

Ideas and storyboarding at the start maybe. Then key dialogue and dialogue trees....maybe