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Two Guys SpaceVenture Kickstarter by Two Guys From Andromeda [Ended, $539K funded]

Kickstarter link

*UPDATE* Legendary voice actor Gary Owens (of SQ IV and SQ VI fame) confirmed as the narrator.

Join Scott and Mark in their Epic new SpaceVenture.

From their New Game page:

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"Okay, here’s the deal, humans.

WE’RE BACK!

(Enjoy a brief message from Mark and Scott)

Hey there, Classic Adventure Gaming fans as well as those relatively new to our worlds. Congratulations on being, er… special enough to find yourself here. We happily welcome you to our official Two Guys website. Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, aka ‘The Two Guys from Andromeda’, are back together. No, your optic orbs have not been on a bender. You read correctly. After a brief 25+ year hiatus we (Mark and Scott) have joined forces once again and are tooling-up to bring you a new Space Adventure, or SPACEVENTURE™ ,.if you will.
A little older, a little wider (well, at least Mark) and a bit more demented than ever (a toss-up there), we’re both ludicrously psyched to be working together again. Combine that with what literally seems like years of pent-up intergalactic pressurized cabin fever to go with it and we have some real…, stuff to share, incorporating that same style of comedy, wonder and excellence you expect from a Two Guys adventure. We have a LOT we need to get off our corrugated calcium chests and out of our titanium-baffled brain pouches.

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Here’s what makes it happen.

Our philosophy was originally to make games that we would like to play and that, ultimately, you would as well. We aren’t straying from what has been a successful formula. We’re back to make more while also incorporating what we’ve learned from you via comments made from the days of snail-mail and moving to email and social media. It’s been interesting to learn what you’ve found fun, funny and/or annoying, and what games you’ve favored. Clearly, not everyone has well rated taste but we can work around that.
The way games are made and gotten into a player’s home has changed greatly, and you have never stopped talking about the adventure game genre and how much you’ve missed it. We are adapting to the changes, taking advantage of them and charting our own course through space and looking forward to finding that ‘new game smell’.
We have fan encouragement, you loyal fans who have kept the legacy of our work alive. We appreciate the many fan sites, fan games and stories, game homage’s and remakes, but probably the best part of the past has been directly related to some very enjoyable, interesting and inspiring email. Thank you for sharing your stories with us about what the games meant to you from whether you enjoyed them (or not) and which puzzle(s) made you mad, to who you used to play them with.

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WE COULD USE YOUR HELP

Sign up for our newsletter(upper right hand corner of our website) so you can share your thoughts with us. We’re calling on all fellow Space Adventurers to join forces with us to help make our new game a reality. Here’s what you can do:
Spread the Word:- We need to get the word out to all classic adventure game fans, fans in the making, sites and chat rooms world wide as fast as the alleged speed of light to drive traffic to us.
Visit this site often for updates, announcements and what’s new in the works as we take fresh steps along the trail to ‘gamedom’, and maybe even a good dose of Two Guys humor in the process. We won’t bury your inbox or share your names or addresses with anyone else, so NO Spam!
Tweet and Facebook the Two Guys. We’d love to hear from you. Share your thoughts.

Our thanks to all, and please…

STAY TUNED!!"

Scott Murphy & Mark Crowe
 
The most mind-blowing part, I kid you not, is that I just wanted to post about how I wish those guys would create a Kickstarter project. So I googled for a picture of them, and that is how I found their video which was only posted 4 hours ago.

The Universe works in mysterious ways...
 
A new Tim Schafer adventure, more Jane Jensen adventures, possibly a new Tex Murphy, Leisure Suit Larry remake, and now a new Space Quest game...we've somehow went back to the 90's and I don't want to leave.
 

Phawx

Member
Space Quest was the second adventure series I played from Sierra, but is easily my favorite of the bunch.

Life is good.
 

thetrin

Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
BUT WAIT! Space Quest V revealed that they're not really from Andromeda!!

Best Sierra series: Space Quest or Quest for Glory?

Whatever, this is great news.

Space Quest. I'm sorry, Roger Wilco makes everything better.
 
A new Tim Schafer adventure, more Jane Jensen adventures, possibly a new Tex Murphy, Leisure Suit Larry remake, and now a new Space Quest game...we've somehow went back to the 90's and I don't want to leave.

It doesn't say a new Space Quest game, just a new adventure game.

I'm really surprised by this. I thought they had a falling out.
 

thetrin

Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
It doesn't say a new Space Quest game, just a new adventure game.

I'm really surprised by this. I thought they had a falling out.

They did. I guess they mended things. I believe it was only one of them that worked on SQV and onward.
 
from the SQ faq:
[2.2.1] Why did the Two Guys from Andromeda break up?
-------------------------------------------------------

The Two Guys from Andromeda broke up shortly after work on SQ4 was
complete. There was no big feud or fall-out between the two, they just
plain and simple went their seperate ways. One of the Guys, Mark Crowe,
was offered to move to Eugene, Oregon to work for Sierra's sister company,
Dynamix, while the other Guy, Scott Murphy, began juggling other projects.
Scott Murphy tells it this way: "It wasn't so much 'running out of ideas'
as it was that we needed some change. Each Space Quest except for a few
months before SQ4 were done back to back to back. I felt that we had been
forced into a very deep rut due to that. It's like every farmer knows,
that he must allow fields to fallow a season or two so that they may regain
their richness and to not be drained of potential."
However, maybe it was the fresh air in Oregon, but shortly after Mark's
transfer to Dynamix, he began work on SQ5. (More on that in section [2.2.2])
After SQ5's release, however, Mark let go of Roger, and has not since done any
work on a Space Quest project.
After SQ5's release, Sierra decided they wanted another SQ, and called
upon Scott Murphy to do it. However, he was currently busy programming for
Police Quest IV, so Sierra recruited Josh Mandel, a contributing writer to
most Sierra products since 1990, to do the design work. Scott later joined
the team as creative consultant, but ended up having influences on storyline
and design as well. Shortly before SQ6 was finished, Josh packed his stuff
and left Sierra due to some sort of management problem. Scott Murphy was
left with the job of getting SQ6 done, which he did.
Not only that, but Scott Murphy is now collaborating with Leslie Balfour
and Jay Lee to create upcoming Space Quest VII. I guess they just can't let
Roger go..

Not sure about the accuracy of course :)
 
from the SQ faq:


Not sure about the accuracy of course :)

Considering how old that is (it mentions working on SQ VII), I doubt it's reliability. The last interview Murphy gave made him seem real bitter towards Crowe to the point it sounded like he despised him.

They did. I guess they mended things. I believe it was only one of them that worked on SQV and onward.

Crowe worked on V. Then Murphy worked on VI with Mandel.
 
Considering how old that is (it mentions working on SQ VII), I doubt it's reliability. The last interview Murphy gave made him seem real bitter towards Crowe to the point it sounded like he despised him.



Crowe worked on V. Then Murphy worked on VI with Mandel.

Do you have a link to the interview? I'd be interested in reading that.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
Wait, I thought the two guys hated each other? I remember a "tell all" interview years ago from one of them. It's why they split up after SQ4 or something.
 

r1cola

Neo Member
a little before the announcement scott was saying it would take 250k min for the rights from activistion...

i told him that was well below the going levels for this kind of this on Kickstarter!
 

jett

D-Member
Telltale is the definition of wasted potential.

Right? I've heard people complaining about SQ6 and I never understood it. I can forgive a lot with a narrator like that.

Oh yeah for sure. I haven't played SQ6 in 15 years but I remember it being funny as hell.
 

rozay

Banned
Well, if they are getting back together I hope they truly did work out whatever issues they had between each other, because this is a dream come true.
 

theRizzle

Member
I thought SQ5 was far and away the best game in the series. I really liked 4, but mostly because of the narrator, and the death messages. But I LOVED 5.

Never played 6.
 

thetrin

Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I thought SQ5 was far and away the best game in the series. I really liked 4, but mostly because of the narrator, and the death messages. But I LOVED 5.

Never played 6.

Six is not great. It's nowhere near as good as 5.

Also, I find it weird that you never played 6, but you have an avatar from 6...
 

Trakdown

Member
pig nose = blerg = no from me

design fail - almost looks like dick nose.

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Now, just because I'm in a such a good mood, I'm going to give you a chance to run. I'm going to let you go, then count to ten, real slow. If you make it out of this thread, I'll forget I ever ran into you. But if you don't, I dust you like bundt cake!
 

theRizzle

Member
Six is not great. It's nowhere near as good as 5.

Also, I find it weird that you never played 6, but you have an avatar from 6...


I am not proud of it, but it was the only decent Roger Wilco image I could find :(

Did anyone buy the SQ collection when it came out?

I bought the LSL Collection and it came with a great book with a lot of cool stories from Al Lowe in it. It even had "interviews" between Larry and Al that were pretty funny. Did the SQ collection have anything like that?
 
I am not proud of it, but it was the only decent Roger Wilco image I could find :(

Did anyone buy the SQ collection when it came out?

I bought the LSL Collection and it came with a great book with a lot of cool stories from Al Lowe in it. It even had "interviews" between Larry and Al that were pretty funny. Did the SQ collection have anything like that?

Yeah i picked up that and QfG collection.
 
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