"I never stop thinking about adventure games," Monkey Island legend Ron Gilbert says, but as his roguelike nears release he doesn't want to make another point-and-click simply "for nostalgic reasons"

The Secret of Monkey Island.

I love Monkey Island, and while I'm several steps short of being a full-on roguelike hater, I generally find myself immune to that 'one more run' compulsion. That's why I was a little disappointed that point-and-click legend Ron Gilbert had moved into the roguelike mines. Gilbert, however, hasn't given up adventure games – he would just prefer to do something new with the genre.

"I never stop thinking about adventure games," Gilbert says in an interview with Cressup on YouTube. "Matter of fact, probably a year ago or so, I put together a little design for Thimbleweed Park 2 that I thought, well, it's kind of interesting to make that. So I never stopped thinking about it. But I do feel with adventure games, if I do another adventure game I want to do something that is really different and interesting."