Monthy Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British Comedy satirizing the Arthurian Legend. In 2011 it got rated as second best comedy of all times.

I thought following around King Arthur to find the men of the round table in Monty Pythons slapstick comedy style would make probably the funniest point&click adventure you never played - so I reimagined it as a 2023 16:9 480x270 pixelart mockup, inspired by the 1980s and 1990s LucasArt adventures.

I think the movie is amazing because it works on 3 layers. The first is just funny costumes, funny voices and funny gestures even kids can understand. Then there is the layer with all the jokes, of course at this point some jokes show their age, overall it's still a lot of fun today though. But the most hilarious thing is the third layer, the historical one - It might totally fly by you, unless if you are a history nerd and that they combined it with the other 2 layers makes it in my eyes pure art.

The peasant scene is one of my most favourite ones and probably the one which visuals still has its impact on contemporary medieval movies, with the poor peasants crawling in the filth, but actually standing up to Arthur on an intellectual level. Before this movie all medieval movies were actually quite colorful.

The environment of the mockup was designed in a way that points of interests are clearly highlighted by the lighting in the scene, while not interfering with the painterly oil-like artstyle. The props are all directly inspired from the movie.
 

The sprites are huge, to allow for a lot of detail and expression. from left to right, Patsy, King Arthur, Kevin and Kevin's wife.
 

I also gave a lot of care to the UI, which I wanted to have with iconed buttons, so there are no localization issues.
I wanted to incorporate a funny hint-system - talking to the rubber-duck - a couple of programmer people might get that one.

I loved working on this and hope you'll get a chuckle out of it. Have a beautiful day.