Νέα adventures από τη Telltale (SBCG4AP/ Wallace&Gromit)

Η ΤellTales ανακοίνωσε σήμερα πως ξεκινά το σχεδιασμό ενός νέου επεισοδιακού adventure, του "Strong Badʼs Cool Game for Attractive People" για Wii και PC. To official site της εν λόγω σειράς θα ανεβεί αργότερα σήμερα και θα περιέχει το πρώτο trailer και τις πρώτες screenshots, καθώς και FAQs για το παιχνίδι.

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες σχετικά με το νέο τους project, μπορείτε να διαβάσετε το δελτίο τύπου που ακολουθεί:


Announcing Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People for WiiWare
New episodic series set in Homestar Runner universe coming in June from Telltale


SAN RAFAEL, CA, April 10, 2008 – Interactive entertainment pioneer Telltale, Inc. is pleased to announce Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (SBCG4AP), a new series of episodic games for WiiWare™, in partnership with Videlectrix. Starring Strong Bad, the self-proclaimed coolest person ever, the series is based on Matt and Mike Chapman's online animated series, which has been running at Homestarrunner.com since 2000. SBCG4AP will launch on WiiWare this June.

As the very first episodic series for connected consoles, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People has been designed specifically for WiiWare, with easy-to-use controls and WiiConnect24™ features. Like Telltale's popular Sam & Max series, SBCG4AP will be released as a five-episode "season" akin to a season of television. The episodes will come out on a monthly schedule. Release dates and pricing details will be revealed in a future announcement.

"Homestarrunner.com is one of the biggest success stories in online entertainment," says Telltale CEO Dan Connors. "The Chapmans have been treating the Internet to episodic content for years. We're thrilled to have teamed up with them to take episodic gaming to the next level via Nintendo's innovative WiiWare delivery system."

Telltale is working closely with the Chapmans on the series' art style, storylines, and scripts. This hands-on collaboration will deliver long-time fans the ultimate Strong Bad experience and give new players a crash course in the series' offbeat and unusual humor. The episodes play like extended cartoons, during which the player assumes the role of Strong Bad—controlling his actions, hearing his innermost thoughts, and becoming part of his awesome world. SBCG4AP features the cast of characters and locations from the Homestarrunner.com cartoons, and the games are fully voice acted by Matt Chapman and the rest of the original cast.

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is a story-driven series with a comic spin that's undeniably Strong Bad. The player uncovers each episode's comedic plot through character interaction, dialogue-based puzzles, and the use (and abuse) of inventory items. In addition, each episode will be crammed with time-wasters to keep players poking around in the world, including Strong Bad emails to check, prank phone calls to place, and mini-games styled after the arcade games on the Homestarrunner.com website.

"Telltale has been rejecting my ideas for green text adventures for years," laments thousandaire gadabout Strong Bad, "but we finally reached a compromise with this puffy 3D point-and-click-em-up adventure. They claim all the coding was done with green text, so I guess that's pretty cool."

In addition to WiiWare, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People will be available on PC. For more details about the series, including a brand new trailer, screenshots, and Strong Bad's development blog, please visit <!-- w --> www.telltalegames.com <!-- w -->.


About Homestarrunner.com
Homestar Runner was conceived in 1996 by Mike Chapman and friend Craig Zobel as an idea for a weird kids' book they would only make a few photocopies of for friends. In 2000, Mike and brother Matt dusted off the idea and launched Homestarrunner.com, featuring the Flash-animated exploits of the characters. Since 2002, they have updated with new cartoons almost every week including the popular feature 'Strong Bad Email' in which fans get their emails answered by the cartoon's charming antagonist, Strong Bad. Mike and Matt write and animate the cartoons with Matt and Missy Palmer providing voices for the characters. The site has been featured and mentioned in the New York Times, Wired Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and, most importantly, two songs from the site were featured in the Guitar Hero series.


About Telltale, Inc.
Telltale is pioneering new forms of interactive entertainment, building upon strong foundations in both traditional and new media. Founded in 2004 by industry veterans with decades of experience, the company has quickly become the leading online episodic gaming publisher and developer, delivering award-winning interactive experiences that emphasize engaging stories, strong characters, and rich worlds. Telltale is establishing a regular, ongoing schedule of online episodic series, across all major gaming and entertainment platforms and channels. Telltale's games include the Sam & Max episodic series; Strong Bad's Game for Attractive People, the first episodic series for WiiWare based on the Homestarrunner.com flash cartoons; episodes adapted from Jeff Smith's epic Bone graphic novels; and games based on television's popular CSI program in partnership with Ubisoft. Telltale has built a robust digital distribution channel at <!-- w --> www.telltalegames.com <!-- w -->, and also publishes its games with select partners.


About Videlectrix
Since the beginning of organized time, or shortly thereafter, the 'Trix, as they are sometimes known, has been at all four fronts of the electronic video gaming industry, providing lo-res entertainment to parents and children alike. In the early years, The Big V, as they are othertimes known, got their start by typing numbers into calculators and then turning the calculators upside down to form words. In 2003, they partnered with Homestarrunner.com and released the arcade peasant-masher Trogdor! They've since followed up with hit after hit, including next-gen text adventure Peasant's Quest, side scrolling platformer Stinkoman 20X6, and the unforgettable Color Television Calibration Cartridge. Vid'rix looks forward to working with Telltale Games and finding out just exactly what it is they do.

Μόλις κυκλοφόρησαν ένα gameplay video, screenshots και λεπτομέρειες για την ιστορία τού νέου τίτλου της Telltale, Strong Badʼs Cool Game for Attractive People .

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Telltale announces new details of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People for WiiWare and PC

Gameplay video and storyline of premiere episode, "Homestar Ruiner," revealed

SAN RAFAEL, CA, May 14, 2008 &#8211; With the series' launch approaching, Telltale has released the first gameplay video from Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (SBCG4AP for short), as well as a synopsis of the premiere episode, "Homestar Ruiner." The episodic point and click series is being developed in close collaboration with Homestarrunner.com creators Mike and Matt Chapman, who have been chronicling Strong Bad's exploits through online cartoons since 2000. The new game series is being developed for WiiWare&#8482; and PC.

SBCG4AP gives players the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become Strong Bad&#8212;a loudmouthed, boxing-glove-wearing megalomaniac and the self-proclaimed coolest person ever&#8212;in his ongoing quest to achieve total awesomeness. "Homestar Ruiner" kicks off a typical day in the House of Strong, with our hero answering emails, dominating in video games, and setting out to pummel his enemies. Then Strong Bad's scheme to win the tri-annual Race to the End of the Race lands him with an unwanted guest: his dimwitted adversary, Homestar Runner. Now Strong Bad must find a way to get the disgraced athlete back on the Free Country, USA A-list (and out of his house).

The Chapman brothers have been working closely with Telltale designers Mark Darin, Mike Stemmle, and Dave Grossman on the episode. The result is a hysterical gaming experience that puts the player inside of an extended Homestar Runner cartoon. In addition to the main plot, which unfolds through intuitive story-driven gameplay, the episode contains achievements and side activities such as the Videlectrix arcade classic Snake Boxer 5 and the ability to create your own "Teen Girl Squad" comics.

SBCG4AP is scheduled to launch on WiiWare and PC this summer. More information about the series, including new "Homestar Ruiner" screenshots and a gameplay video featuring an awkward pre-race exchange between Strong Bad and Homestar, can be viewed at www.telltalegames.com/strongbad . This page is also home to Strong Bad's semi-insightful development blog, which is penned by the game's star himself (with a little help from series creators Mike and Matt Chapman).

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Τι σχέση έχει το episodic gaming με το Runaway; Άλλο επεισόδια και άλλο sequels...

Πρόσφατα η Telltale ανακοίνωσε ότι αναλαμβάνει να adventurοποιήσει τις γνωστές ιστορίες του αγαπημένου claymation διδύμου Wallace &amp; Gromit.
Η εταιρία απ' ότι φαίνεται δούλευε καιρό στο project καθώς με την ανακοίνωση του παιχνιδιού παρουσίασε και ένα πρώτο trailer.
Κατά τη γνωστή ιδεολογία και (μάλλον πετυχημένη) πρακτική της Telltale, το παιχνίδι θα κυκλοφορήσει σε επεισόδια, θα μείνει πιστή στο ύφος της animation σειράς (η σάτυρα είναι το φόρτε τους) ενώ θα μπορούμε να χειριζόμαστε εξίσου τον εκκεντρικό επιστήμονα Wallace αλλά και τον αξιαγάπητο σκυλάκο Gromit.

Για το trailer και περισσότερες πληροφορίες ρίξ'τε μια ματιά εδώ .