Disney's Animated Storybook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." meanwhile, at other times voice soundalikes were used. The game follows the plot of the 1996 Disney film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" closely, and features six separate activities that can be played throughout the story, which is narrated by the fictional entertainer Clopin Trouillefou. The game contains the characters featured in Victor Hugo's original novel such as Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Phoebus, as well as characters created specifically for the Disney film such as the gargoyles Hugo, Victor and Laverne. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was among the top-10-selling children's animated CD-ROM titles for 1997.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) to write the screenplay, and it was decided early on that Quasimodo would be the center of the story, as he was in preceding live-action film adaptations. In the early drafts, Quasimodo served as a Cyrano between Phoebus and Esmeralda, but it was discarded to focus more on Quasimodo. Meanwhile, a love story between Quasimodo and Esmeralda was also conceived, according to Murphy, but "we decided to make Phoebus more heroic and central to the story. Out of that decision grew the idea of some sort of a triangle between Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Phoebus." Some of the novel's key characters