The soundtracks to the seminal CD-ROM titles “The 7th Guest” and “The 11th Hour” by George “The Fat Man” Sanger, reimagined as industrial rock. A project over 2 years in the making, made with the full support of The Fat Man himself, and appreciative nods from the founders of Trilobyte Games, Graeme Devine and Rob...
The 1990s was a time of rapid change in the tech powering video game graphics. From pre-rendering, to ray casting, to texture-mapped polygons, it seemed that a major innovation was around every corner....
Good news, soup fans! Our reimagining of the 7th Guest and 11th Hour soundtracks — “Soup’s On: Selections from Stauf’s Infernal Jukebox” — will release digitally on Oct. 31. It will be available on Bandcamp and streaming services. Happy Halloween!...
This special performance of “The Game” from The 7th Guest features the original composer, The Fat Man himself, along with talent from San Diego’s Mid-City Community Music group making their recording debut, and an incredible solo from legendary keyboardist Adam Holzman who has performed with Miles Davis, many other jazz...
Excerpt from a well-known TV show hosted and created by Stewart Cheifet featuring George “The Fat Man” Sanger, the same year he was composing for Putt-Putt Saves The Zoo. It discusses one of his biggest contributions to game audio, “Fat Labs” certification, and Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon makes an appearance....
Join The 7th Guest creators Graeme Devine, George “The Fat Man” Sanger, and (remotely) Matt Costello as they discuss stories from creating the original CD-ROM horror classic, as well as the sequel, The 11th Hour. Led by Phantasmagoria 2‘s own Paul Morgan Stetler, you’ll hear tales about writing the puzzles, working with...
I found this cool old website for The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, and T7G3: The Collector. The author is “Bones the Caretaker”. The section of the website for The Collector says “Copyright site-design and written content by Paul van der Meer 2003”....
The Cutscenes are out of order in the Game. Here is the Cutscenes in order as told in the book, The 7th Guest: A Novel by Matthew J. Costello. Cropped the black borders with only a small loss of quality.
a lot of these are from 1991/1992 when the game was just called “Guest”, with camera angles that you can’t see in the actual game, and higher resolution renders...
This shout-out filled episode features Matt Costello on the curious craft of writing for games. A prolific novelist, his career spans the length of our industry, from the genre-defining 7th Guest to huge hits like Disney Universe and DOOM3. A peek behind the Curtain of a lesser known, but fundamental aspect of #gamedev