MinnMax Interview - Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Stadia With Noah Falstein (Patreon)

In this MinnMax Interview, Ben Hanson talks to Noah Falstein about his over 40-year career in the game industry and how his journey designing arcade games led him to working with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas on Indiana Jones video games, becoming Google's chief game designer, and eventually to Return to Monkey Island. This interview is a follow-up to The Deepest Dive on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, so we hope you enjoy Noah's stories! 

You can watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/kW2ANwXvN-g

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00:00:00 - Intro 

00:02:14 - Introducing Noah Falstein 

00:03:48 - Noah's most recent work 

00:06:49 - Returning to Monkey Island 

00:10:59 - Spoilers for the original "secret" of Monkey Island 

00:12:42 - Consulting on Return to Monkey Island 

00:14:18 - Designing modern adventure games 

00:19:37 - Working on arcade games like Sinistar 

00:23:33 - Working at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch 

00:36:16 -  Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks Interactive 

00:44:21 - Creating Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 

00:55:05 - Indiana Jones' future 

00:58:13 - Google and the origins of Stadia

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