Graeme Devine talks about Uncle Henry's Playhouse, the cancelled 7th Guest remake, and T7G3 angielski

In a thread on Bluesky about Uncle Henry’s Playhouse, Graeme says…

I’ve no idea where the “only 27 people own this game” thing came from. We sold a bunch of copies, unfortunately it was the same month/quarter we were going out of business (Trilobyte) and we didn’t recoup against our distribution advance from EA.

EA gave us a large check to distribute both Clandestiny and Uncle Henry’s Playhouse (and the doomed 7th Guest III). Both those games together did not make that advance back. In retrospect we were foolish to break from Virgin and I should have trusted Martin Alper.

But I was young and foolish in those days and mistakes were made that cost me, and everyone at Trilobyte, the company. It’s a shame since we were almost done with 7th Guest Deluxe which was a remake of 7th Guest with 11th Hour technology. UHP uses some of those puzzles from that version.

While Uncle Henry’s Playhouse was a commercial failure, I wish people would celebrate it as a unique artifact of the time and a precursor to games such as “The Room” which would years later improve on the design and be a mega hit.

So I’m not going to watch the video, but I really appreciate you taking up the mantle and calling it out.

SQH asks: No problem. Hey, I wasn’t aware you guys were remaking T7G at Trilobyte. Does that mean you had the video redigitized in 30 fps and stuff? 'Cos that would have been awesome.

We were done with a bunch of the remake, and it looked great with the 11th Hour tech, 24 bit color etc. The biggest issue was actually going through and getting the old assets, both finding them, and then making them work in a significantly improved 3D Studio.

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