[ACT.] TELLTALE GAMES REVELA JOGO PARA WIIWARE
11 de abril, 2008 04:15 PM por Pedro Dionisio

[Original 10/04]: Tal como noticiámos anteriormente, a TellTale Games revelou que iria desenvolver um jogo por episódios para o serviço WiiWare. Hoje, a produtora anunciou Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (ou para ser mais fácil de lembrar, SBCG4AP) para o serviço e PC incluíndo, no qual será baseado na série animada do site Homestar Runner. Os criadores da série Matt e Mike Chapman irão trabalhar juntamente com a produtora para assegurar que o humor da série animada esteja presente no jogo. As primeiras imagens juntamente com um trailer serão revelados em breve.

[Actualização 11/04]: A produtora abriu o site oficial do jogo onde revelou 3 trailers, um deles mostra o jogo em sí (é o que diz a própria mensagem no video, se perceberem a piada), e as primeiras imagens do jogo.

A TellTale Games está a planear desenvolver 5 episódios por temporada, com lançamento do primeiro episódio em Junho nos Estados Unidos e depois mensalmente, e revela que todos os episódios terão suporte do WiiConnect24. De momento, a série não tem data para a Europa. 

     

     

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 www.telltalegames.com.