This mockup is quite the what-if

I enjoy a good video game mockup every now and then, and this one is too rich of an idea not to share. Just imagine: John Carpenter’sThe Thingas a LucasArts-style point-and-click adventure game.

Here’s the final version of my LucasArts style#TheThing#adventuregamemockup. This was a lot of fun to work on.#pixelart#gamedev.pic.twitter.com/XuehQNZH2w

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— Paul Conway (@DoomCube)May 23, 2025

Computer Artworks exploredThe Thingas a third-person shooterback in 2002, so we’re very much overdue another adaptation. As amazing as Paul Conway’s mockup here is, I’m not sure a pixel-art adventure would be mytopchoice over a more modern direction, but any game that tried to weave together the body horror, tension, and paranoia of the 1982 film would be all right with me.

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