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[iceatcs]

Ahh good time. I made that gif for Gameinformer Epic Mickey front cover thread. It was lot of deaths this thread. (Even lip sync almost right)

 

[Santar]

Gotta say, Monster Tale looks amazing.
Shame it never got released here in Europe..

 

[Kifimbo]

Just realized Junction Point and Dreamrift are both in Austin, Texas.

 

[Dreamwriter]

I may get the 3DS game (3D FTW), but I'll hold off on the console version until we get it for Wii-U (and if we don't get it for Wii-U...I guess I just won't get it).

 

[electroplankton]

Probably. But I wonder what he meant by 'can only be done on 3DS'.

Yeah, exactly, that's why I was asking. Probably we'll know in a few days, btw.

 

[nincompoop]

Must have something to do with two screens? I mean 3DS isn't the only system that does 3D.

 

[iamaustrian]

Must have something to do with two screens? I mean 3DS isn't the only system that does 3D.

but it's the only system which does it out of the box(exept one or two smartphones)

 

[Kifimbo]

Must have something to do with two screens? I mean 3DS isn't the only system that does 3D.

And is there any 3D game that is unplayable in 2D (thus can't be done on another platform) ? So yeah, it's probably the two screens.

 

[Eric C]

How did I not see this thread earlier?

A videogame with the words illusion & mickey in the title... BOUGHT

so hyped for this... it better not disappoint

I'll be more than happy if it's a 2D game with the same sprite-quality of Monster Tale, but with 3D effects to accentuate the layers of depth.

It's being made by the people that made the Monster Tale game? hype rising.

Coop Mickey / Oswald gameplay like World?

Yeah, ^ I loved that game. I really liked the other illusion games too.

Although, I've only played the Game Gear version of "Land of Illusion" I think they're pretty much exactly the same.

The Illusion games need to be put on the 3DS virtual console.

 

[Hero of Legend]

Okay. I looked over Monster Tale's credits at allgame:

http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=72851&tab=credits

It seems that not only are two key folks from Hatsworth are there, but the team (even one of the founders) had relations with each other while working on The Red Star, Vexx, and Turok Evolution.

And Stephen Dupree (one of the MT designers) was a contract designer on DKCR! Funny as the art director of Hatsworth, was one of the people who worked on the art for DKCR as well!

 

[fernoca]

Yeah. Their site's back online.
Though no word on new projects and only list 'Monster Tale' as their first game as a team; the site also lists games members of of the team worked:

Peter Ong
Co-Founder, Creative Director

Peter Ong is a veteran game developer with over a decade of professional experience. He has driven game development both as a Design Lead and Producer on a broad range of team structures ranging from a modest team of under 20 people, to a team with over 150 people and a 20+ million dollar budget. Peter is responsible for the creation of innovative and acclaimed action-adventure titles such as “The Red Star,” “Vexx,” and “Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure,” as well as high profile licensed titles such as “Superman Returns: The Videogame” for major industry-leading publishers Electronic Arts and Acclaim Entertainment. For his most recent work of directing the award-winning game “Monster Tale,” Peter was named one of the Top Ten Designers of the year in “Game Developer Magazine”. Having worked in either Designer or Producer positions for the full-cycle of development from pre-conceptualization to final production on every game he has been involved with, Peter’s ability in both creative and business/production roles has lead to the successful shipment of every title he has worked on.

Ryan Pijai
Co-Founder, Technical Director

Ryan Pijai is responsible for overseeing all technology development for DreamRift. Ryan received his Computer Science Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Cornell University, where he graduated Cum Laude with Honors at the top of his class. He brings with him a wide range of professional industry experience including Lead Programmer at Electronic Arts, the world’s leading video game publisher, as well as Tools Programmer at Autodesk, the makers of AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max. Additionally, Ryan has handled AI, Graphics, Physics, Sound, User Interface, and Gameplay programming for multi-million selling sports games, next generation open world action games, and handheld games such as his most recently completed project as Lead Programmer: the original intellectual property “Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure” for the Nintendo DS.

Previously Developed Titles
By DreamRift Team Members

• Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (Electronic Arts, DS)
• Metroid Prime (Nintendo, Wii)
• Monster Tale (Majesco, DS)
• Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision, Xbox360/PS2/PS3/Wii)
• Tony Hawk’s Project 8 (Activision, Xbox/Xbox360/PS2/PS3/PSP)
• The Red Star (XS Games, PS2)
• Metal Gear Solid 2/Metal Gear Solid 3/Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD (Konami, PS3)
• Vexx (Acclaim Entertainment, Xbox/PS2/Gamecube)
• God of War I & II (Sony, PS3)
• NCAA Football (Electronic Arts, Xbox360/PS3)
• Spyro: Shadow Legacy (Sierra Entertainment, DS)
• Madden NFL (Electronic Arts, Wii/Xbox360/PS3)
• Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection (Sony, PS3)
• Treasure World (Aspyr Media, DS)
• Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground (Activision, Xbox360/PS2/PS3/Wii)
• Superman Returns: The Videogame (Electronic Arts, Xbox/Xbox360/PS2)
• The Tale of Despereaux (Atari, DS)
• Dementium: The Ward (Gamecock, DS)
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Nintendo, Wii)
• Cars: Mater-National Championship (THQ, Xbox360/PS2/PS3)
• NBA Jam (Acclaim Entertainment, Xbox/PS2)
• The Incredible Hulk (Sega, DS)

 

[GameE]

I want to screens of this really bad

 

[Father_Brain]

First details from the NP preview:

Power of Illusion will make heavy use of the Nintendo 3DS's stylus. By tapping the item icons exist in every level, you'll be able to "paint" (trace) those items into existence, including cliffs, cannons, and floating platforms. The more precisely you trace, the better for Mickey. A flawlessly-painted canon will only damage Mickey's enemies, for instance, but if you mess up the painting, the canon will be a danger to everyone in the area.

Sometimes you'll need to erase objects, which is done by spreading thinner. Again, the stylus comes into play here.

The hand-drawn sprites in Power of Illusion are extremely compelling, and, thanks to scrolling parallax backgrounds (a heavily-used graphic technique in the days of 16-bit gaming), reportedly look great in sterescopic 3D. Even better, every level in the game is based on an animated Disney adventure, from "Sleeping Beauty" to "Tangled" and lots in between.

As a final declaration of oldschool love, every character that Mickey saves in Power of Illusion will take up residence in the fortress that Mickey uses as his home base, a confirmed nod to the esteemed Suikoden RPG series. Sometimes you find references in the unlikeliest of places, but that's part of what makes video games fun. Right?

 

[ThatObviousUser]

"The hand-drawn sprites in Power of Illusion are extremely compelling, and, thanks to scrolling parallax backgrounds (a heavily-used graphic technique in the days of 16-bit gaming), reportedly look great in sterescopic 3D. "

 

[Xellos]

Sprites + parallax in 3D is a winning proposition. Mighty Switch Force has taught me this.

 

[Seven Force]

Holy shit, definitive version right here, folks.

Never thought I'd ever see a spiritual sequel to the Illusion games, much less one in the hands of a capable developer.

 

[methodman]

Kid Icarus has made me a 3ds believer. Now I'm more hyped for Epic Mickey 2 for 3ds then any other version, lol

 

[Lijik]

Sounds like the version to get for sure

 

[Aeana]

I have faith in Dreamrift. Hatsworth and Monster Tale were both great games. This sounds like it'll be good too.

 

[Mpl90]

HOLY SHIT YES.

 

[Fantastical]

I can't wait to see some screenshots / video.

 

[bridegur]

I'm so much more interested in this than the console game. I loved Henry Hatsworth, and Monster Tale looks amazing.

 

[Phife Dawg]

First details from the NP preview:

Hand-drawn sprites? Sounds great! Please be good, please be good...

 

[magicalsoundshower]

Holy crap, this is going to look lush.

 

[fernoca]

So awesome!

Power of Illusion is being put together by DreamRift, the studio behind 2011's Monster Tale for the Nintendo DS. The game, which is its own side-scrolling, platforming title (instead of a mere port of The Power of Two), is a follow-up to Epic Mickey, but more interestingly, it's also a follow-up to Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, a 1990 game for the Sega Genesis!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

wow

just finished KIU

3DS is earning my respect

 

[Tron 2.0]

Wow. That sounds amazing.

 

[StickSoldier]

Man, 3DS is like the new SNES for me. So many fucking games coming out!

 

[JazzmanZ]

I have the magazine in hand, the graphics look just like the Castle of illusion graphics!

other details include

-The witch from Snow white is the main villain again
-There will be worlds from all eras of Disney, From Peter Pan to Tangled
-Scrooge Mcduck is in the game
-Characters you 'save' will appear in a fort of sort that acts as a HUB when you progress on, like Scrooge McDuck or Peter pan will be in it and decorate the fort.
-Oswald will be in it along with Minnie

 

[GaimeGuy]

I have the magazine in hand, the graphics look just like the Castle of illusion graphics!

other details include

-The witch from Snow white is the main villain again
-There will be worlds from all eras of Disney, From Peter Pan to Tangled
-Scrooge Mcduck is in the game
-Characters you 'save' will appear in a fort of sort that acts as a HUB when you progress on, like Scrooge McDuck or Peter pan will be in it and decorate the fort.
-Oswald will be in it along with Minnie

GOTY

 

[The M.O.B]

I have the magazine in hand, the graphics look just like the Castle of illusion graphics!

other details include

-The witch from Snow white is the main villain again
-There will be worlds from all eras of Disney, From Peter Pan to Tangled
-Scrooge Mcduck is in the game
-Characters you 'save' will appear in a fort of sort that acts as a HUB when you progress on, like Scrooge McDuck or Peter pan will be in it and decorate the fort.
-Oswald will be in it along with Minnie

There is no way this game can turn out bad, NO WAY!

HYPE!

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

3DS turning into an amazing handheld.

 

[Rodney McKay]

-Scrooge Mcduck is in the game

I just became SPLOOGE McDuck at this annoucement.

 

[Rlan]

I made these in this thread (THEY ARE NOT REAL) but man, I want to see them now:

 

[Peru]

GOTY

Basically. I feel that Disney game excitement I felt during the SNES/Genesis days coming back.

 

[Sloane]

Superior version confirmed.

Spoiler

Hope it's okay to write this.

Don't really care for the console game, since the first one was disappointing and the second one looks pretty identical so far, but the 3DS game could be great.

 

[Data West]

Why is a licensed game the reason that I want a 3ds?

 

[smokeymicpot]

Pretty sure I have Castle of illusion for my Genesis might hook it up tomorrow to get hyped even more.

 

[jump_button]

Why is a licensed game the reason that I want a 3ds?

Its not base on some shit film licensed game they trying to sell of the back of the film?

 

[duckroll]

They should just call this Epic Mickey: The Real Deal, and cancel all the console versions.

 

[Data West]

Between this and Kingdom Hearts, they should probably make a Mickey themed 3DS

 

[Nosgoroth]

Castle of Illusion followup? Hand-drawn sprites with parallax backgrounds? The Monster Tale dev?

Oh. My. GOD.

I don't even need screenshots, I'm already day-one-sold. Just give me a place to throw my money in.

 

[Yoshi]

Why is a licensed game the reason that I want a 3ds?

It's made by Disney, who own the Mickey IP so it's really not much different from Nintendo using Mario in one of its games .

 

[billy beane]

This year is truly becoming the year of the 3DS. Really interested to see more of this game.

 

[Rehynn]

COMPELLING TEX... SPRITES! YES!

Superior version confirmed.

Spoiler

Hope it's okay to write this.

I totally agree. I'm willing to bet this will turn out better than Epic Mickey 2.

 

[billy beane]

COMPELLING TEX... SPRITES! YES!



I totally agree. I'm willing to bet this will turn out better than Epic Mickey 2.

I'm hoping both turn out nicely. Hopefully Junction Point learns a lot about what did and didn't work in the first game.

We'll see though.

 

[Salvadora]

They should just call this Epic Mickey: The Real Deal, and cancel all the console versions.

This.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

These are the types of games Disney needs to bring back to the consoles it would be huge for them imagine quackshot with rayman origins quality sprites

 

[Winnie the Pimp]

Man, 3DS is like the new SNES for me. So many fucking games coming out!

you mean the 3DS is like the DS right?

Since the DS already was the new SNES

 

[SmithnCo]

I have the magazine in hand, the graphics look just like the Castle of illusion graphics!

other details include

-The witch from Snow white is the main villain again
-There will be worlds from all eras of Disney, From Peter Pan to Tangled
-Scrooge Mcduck is in the game
-Characters you 'save' will appear in a fort of sort that acts as a HUB when you progress on, like Scrooge McDuck or Peter pan will be in it and decorate the fort.
-Oswald will be in it along with Minnie

Sounds awesome. Tangled world sounds promising too.