Hello Adventurers,

It’s 2026 and we’re back with some exciting updates about the Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line documentary! 

We're happy to report that we have officially completed a rough cut of the film!

Coming in at a whopping 4 Hours, 12 Minutes, and 38 seconds runtime, the rough cut allows us to see the overall shape of the film, determine what’s working and what’s not, and tells us what holes need filling. This is important progress and means we're still on track for release in 2026.

It’s a big accomplishment – and one that would not have been possible without your support – but this is where the hard work really begins. 

We’re now steadily working through the cut piece-by-piece with editor Adam Schoales and his team, polishing, refining, and cutting to make this the best possible version of the Sierra story.

Fear not! For any backers worried that something really good will get left on the cutting room floor, remember that we hit our Mini-Doc stretch goal during the campaign. If you're a project backer, much of that extra interview material will more than likely find its way into your hands eventually!

As we cut and streamline the film, we have begun adding elements from the treasure trove of archival materials – photographs, videos, documents, etc. – that we’ve been collecting throughout the production process.

From personal photographs from key Sierra figures to contemporary news reports originally broadcast on CNN, along with never-seen-in-public promotional footage and b-roll, the archive materials we’ve been able to collect for the film are truly incredible. We’re hoping to include as much of it as we can in the finished documentary.

We’re also now at the stage of the edit where other post-production elements such as music and titles start to be added to the cut.

Composer Jess Forrest (Castle If) has created an amazing suite of music for the film and will continue to develop the compositions as we get closer to a final cut. We can't wait for you to hear it!

The team at Filmograph, the Emmy-nominated title design studio behind the openings of the Mission: Impossible series among many other fantastic projects, is hard at work designing a main title treatment for the doc, along with lower thirds (to identify all of our wonderful interview subjects) and date and location bugs to situate viewers as we move from place to place.

We’re also working with the fine folks at EndCrawl to put together the film’s all-important end credits, in which all of our backers will be featured and thanked.

For future updates, we’re planning to do deep dives into all of these elements – archive, music, and titles – to give our backers an inside look at the finishing of the film.

A Wild Doom Guy Appears…

And the exciting news doesn’t stop there. We are pleased to finally reveal one of our long teased mystery interview subjects…

In late 2025 we sat down for an interview with the legendary John Romero, co-founder of id Software and one of the fathers of the first-person shooter genre, at his home in Ireland.

Eagle-eyed backers might have recognized Romero’s trademark black nail polish when we shared photos from a “dedicated collector” in our last update.

As most Sierra fans know, the history of the first-person shooter genre is inexorably tied to that of the adventure game, with many citing the arrival of the former as the death knell of the latter. Ken Williams famously even offered to buy id Software in the early ‘90s, making it one of the great “what if?” moments in video game history.

While it may surprise some to learn this, the co-creator of games like DOOM and Quake also happens to be a huge fan of Sierra On-Line and is a veritable encyclopedia of computer games history. His perspective on Sierra as a company, its games, and the industry as a whole during this incredible time period are a wonderful addition to the doc.

We also spoke to him about some of id Software's iconic first-person shooter games, but for the full story on those you'll have to read his fantastic book DOOM GUY or watch the forthcoming documentary of the same name!

We are very grateful to both John and Brenda Romero for making his participation possible.

Game On Kickstarter

And speaking of the Romeros, since documentaries about games and game designers are still few and far between, we want to make sure to highlight great projects whenever they come along.

One such project is Game On, a new feature documentary about pioneering game designer Brenda Romero and the people she’s inspired. Fellow filmmaker and game creator Theresa Loong recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for the doc on Kickstarter, with the funds going towards finishing the edit, mixing sound, and help with distribution and awareness.

We’ve officially backed the project – please join us and consider pledging today (click the image below) if you want to see more feature documentaries made about the world of video games!

Until next time,

- The Legends of Adventure Team

Hello, Adventurers!

We're here today with a very special update marking one year since Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line was successfully 100% funded on BackerKit!

With the generous support of our backers, we went on to exceed our original goal and our own expectations. It was an important day for the team because it was the day we officially knew that we were going to get to tell this incredible story and do it in a way that was worthy of the subject matter. So thank you again for making this possible!
 

It's been a year full of progress on the project – almost two dozen amazing interviews, over 40 hours of footage, hundreds of pieces of archival material sourced, and almost a month spent on the road by our team – and there's so much more to come. 

Interviews continue (more on that in the "Backer Only" section below) and we're now deep in post-production with work on a first assembly cut well underway, as well as the film's score and main title design.

We're excited to share more news on this front in the coming months, but for now we want to give you a sneak peek at one of the highlights of our last production road trip...

As mentioned in our last update, the previous production leg brought the LOA team to Oakhurst, California – home of Sierra On-Line's headquarters from the early 1980s until 1993. The majority of the Sierra team lived in and around the area during this time, including co-founders Ken and Roberta Williams.

After some early successes at Sierra and around the time that development on the original King's Quest began, Ken and Roberta decided to build a home in Oakhurst. With six bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, two kitchens, a bar and game room, and indoor volleyball court, the palatial house was unlike anything else in the region and a tribute to what they'd built at Sierra so far.

Home to the Williams' young family, more than a few wild company parties, and the development of some of Sierra's most beloved games, today the house remains largely the same as when it was first built, complete with stained glass referencing early Sierra titles like Mystery House, The Wizard and the Princess, and The Dark Crystal.

Take a look inside the Williams' Oakhurst home below:

Huge thanks to project backer Lance Ewing for mentioning that the house was listed on AirBNB during the campaign last year, as this allowed us to get in touch with the current owners and arrange to shoot there.

So if you're planning a trip to the Yosemite area in the near future or want to relive the glory days of Sierra On-Line with a big group of friends, the owners of the property have provided us with a discount code – SIERRADOC10 – that can be used until the end of 2027 to book the house on loveyosemite.com for 10% off.

Once again, we're incredibly grateful to all the backers for their support and for coming along with us on this wild journey. Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram for updates on the documentary and more!

Backers: Visit the Legends of Adventure Community page to see our exclusive "Backer Only" info on the next round of interviews.

Thanks,

The Legends of Adventure Team