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[edit] Sean Clark, the only designer?

From the article: "Designer(s) Sean Clark"

The story in the game, was an original idea of Brian Moriarty. Arguably, the game itself is 70% Brian Moriarty, 30% Sean Clark. And it's not just me who thinks this way, but the people who worked in the game. You can read the interviews I conducted, right here: http://dig.mixnmojo.com/museum/interviews.html

Now. the real issue is, Brian Moriarty isn't exactly credited as a designer on the game itself. The question is: Should we in this article consider Brian Moriarty one of The Dig's designers according real facts, or just stick with the official credits of the game? --Valkian 14:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Include him with a reference (preferably in the text, not infobox), and talk about his involvement and lack of credit in the history section, no-one should argue with that. We're about facts after all. Kudos on the fantastic website by the way, I'd hoped you'd involve yourself with this article at some point :) – Quoth 23:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Science Fiction?

From the article: "It is also the only one of the LucasArts adventures that fits in the science fiction genre."

What about Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders? It's not serious sci-fi like The Dig, but I think it still fits within the genre. --Chrismith 19:09, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

  • It's not the only serious one either Pictureuploader 21:21, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] No Humor

"containing absolutely no slapstick humor or even any subtle jokes" isn't entirely true. There's the whole "Light Hearted", "Light Salad Dressing" exchange when Boston is looking at the brige of light. The game *is* pretty serious, though.

I've corrected the statement. – Quoth 01:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I've just played through The Dig again, and even the "very little" qualification is inaccurate. While not enough to qualify as a comedy, there's a decent amount of humor in the game, e.g. during Low's first incomprehensible chat with the inventor. Low's interaction with the environment frequently produces funny dialogue, such as his "jumper cables" joke or his remarks when refusing to touch the crevice or animate the inventor's pets a second time. Maggie's dialogue is full of sarcastic humor. There's also some situational comedy, usually when Low is with Maggie and/or Brink (as during Maggie's rescue).

[edit] The Book

"Furthermore, the book has scenes that were never intended to be in the book and is a fine compliment to the collection."

I'm guessing the person who wrote this meant that the book contained scenes not in the game, but I don't know the two versions of The Dig well enough to be certain. Could someone clear this up? 66.36.156.55 04:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


"There is a little controversy on this topic, but according to Tal Cohen, a computer science PhD student this information is correct." I don't understand this sentence. "controversy on this topic" <-- Which topic? That the book was written by Allan Dean Foster? The name's on the book cover, you don't need the expertise of a computer science PhD student to verify that. (I own the German translation of the book, should my name be included as well?) 84.190.235.107 03:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I concur. Controversy on what topic? Authorship of the book? Authorship of the other books mentioned? What makes a CS student an authoratative voice on literature? Has he published a thesis on the topic? Or just written a blog entry? This statement is entirely confusing and must be addressed, I'm removing it for now. --JamesTheNumberless 13:45, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup required

I have tagged 'The Book' section as unreferenced as there are little to no citations fo where the info came from. This section also needs rewriting.

I have tagged the 'Trivia' section as needing to be integrated into the article; references also required for this paragraph. Burns flipper 11:50, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cocytus

Very sure that Brink never mentions the name of the planet as "Cocytus" in the actual game, but he does in the book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.70.197.78 (talk) 22:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A Floppy Version?

I deleted the lines in the article which referred to The Dig being released on floppy. While my recollections of 12+ year old games may be slightly rusty, I am virtually certain that The Dig was only released on CD-ROM. Given the amount of work (and money) put into the voice acting and pre-rendered cinemas, it would have been insanity to try to make a floppy version. (which would have required even MORE work coming up with static screens to cover the missing movies)

There was a 30-meg or so demo released around 1994 which could have, with compression, probably fit on 12 floppies. That's likely what the editor was thinking of. If someone can come up with concrete information on the demo's release, it would be a good addition into the "release" section.


The bit about the floppy version didn't make any sense to me either, that's why I had put in the 'citation needed' bit. From what I'd read, the game was only ever released on CD. --WaterWolf (talk) 11:15, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] screenshot?

http://www.gamethink.net/IMG/gif/pc_the_dig_1995.gif

--85.10.92.127 (talk) 12:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)