Glottis and Manny on the Bone WagonĪlthough the control scheme and game engine were new to the genre, Grim's core gameplay remains much the same as previous LucasArts adventure games and primarily alternates between navigating humorous dialogue trees and completing inventory-based puzzles in order to advance the plot. Grim Fandango's minimal presentation was praised for its cinematic qualities, but it was also criticized for being unwieldy compared to a more traditional point-and-click adventure game interface. As Manny walks through the environment, his head will turn to look towards certain important objects or characters players may examine, pick up or use the object Manny is looking at with the appropriate keyboard commands. Grim Fandango moves away from the point-and-click interface of the SCUMM engine used in preceding LucasArts adventure games it instead makes use of the GrimE engine, which allows players to directly manipulate the movements of 3D characters using keyboard tank controls. Grim Fandango was the first LucasArts adventure game to feature 3D polygonal characters moving and interacting in a pre-rendered 2D world. Many of Grim's characters including Manny are voiced by Hispanic actors, and the game's script is peppered with Spanish words and phrases. The game's story and setting primarily draw from aspects of Hispanic culture, Aztec mythology, and film noir cinema. Players take the role of protagonist Manny Calavera, a travel agent for the Department of Death and grim reaper, as he travels through the Land of the Dead on a quest to reach the Ninth Underworld and his eternal rest. In 2013, Bajakian received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Game Audio Network Guild, and in 2012, the Outstanding Alumni Award from The New England Conservatory.Grim Fandango is an adventure game directed by Tim Schafer and released by LucasArts in 1998. Ĭlint Bajakian was the first vice president and co-founder of the Game Audio Network Guild and is a member of Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. In October 2013 he became VP of Development and Composer at Pyramind Studios, contributing original music to Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, among other projects. Bajakian joined Sony Computer Entertainment in 2004 and headed up the music production group in original scoring as Senior Music Manager until 2013. Recently, he has ventured into working with other publishers as well as writing the score for a short film, The Upgrade. His company changed names to The Sound Department, and finally to Bay Area Sound.
After quitting LucasArts he formed his own sound production company, C.B. While there, Bajakian received fame for his Ennio Morricone-influenced score for 1997 western shooter Outlaws which received a Special Achievement award from Computer Gaming Magazine. He has worked on several classic LucasArts games, where he gained much of his fame with Michael Land and Peter McConnell, LucasArts' other principal composers. Bajakian worked for LucasArts from 1991 until May 2000.
Īfter that, he joined LucasArts under invitation of a good friend of Bajakian's and his co-player in rock bands Michael Land.
Then, Bajakian enrolled in the University of Michigan, earning a Master of Music degree in Music Composition. He has studied music at the New England Conservatory, earning degrees of double- Bachelor of Arts in Classic Guitar Performance. In middle school, Bajakian played in marching bands, and also played in a range of rock bands from 1977 to 1984. He was linked with music since age of eight. Bajakian was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
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