Ron Gilbert is something akin to PC gaming royalty, having worked on all-time greats like The Secret of Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion—he also designed the Mona Lisa of edutainment, Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds, so he's good in my book. You might think such a resplendent back catalog would mean publishers are tripping over each other to offer Gilbert the chance to make whatever he likes, but not so; he had to cancel his last project, a Zelda-inspired open world RPG, in part because he couldn't get the resources he needed.
In an interview with Ars Technica, Gilbert talked about why the project was scrapped: “I just [didn’t] have the money or the time to build a big open-world game like that."
