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[ShadiWulf]

SEGA’s Twitter has recently posted a mystery image on Flickr, seen here, of a forest setting with a chunk missing from the image and a question mark. Clearly they are teasing a new game, but what game could it be? Well, we shared the initial image on our Facebook page a kind reader by the name of Marius Theßeling speculated that the art matched the style of Ron Gilbert’s unannounced upcoming game from Double Fine Productions. And sure enough, it matches up! We simply grabbed the image from SEGA’s flicker, and dropped in all the character art from Gilbert’s blog onto the image. Just like a puzzle, an image came together and you can see the completed image above. So it’s official: SEGA is teaming with Double Fine to publish a game! Sorry if we ruined the surprise, SEGA. But all the pieces were there.

http://segabits.com/blog/2012/05/22/sega-publishing-new-game-by-double-fine-productions/

 

[jetjevons]

The more Double Fine products in the world the better.

 

[Dion Blaster]

A glance of that image hap me hopeful for more psychonauts for a second.

 

[Persona7]

Ok.

 

[Dog Problems]

So with this, and along with Ron showing off so many characters, is it safe to assume the actual game will be shown at E3?

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

Wasn't Sega only supposed to publish games from like, four franchises now?

 

[FoneBone]

So it's digital, then? Can't really see Sega taking a chance on this as a retail game at this point...

Wasn't Sega only supposed to publish games from like, four franchises now?

As retail games. This has never been confirmed as one, to my knowledge.

 

[Criminal Upper]

I didn't think there would be a way to condemn a double fine game to even WORSE sales, but teaming with Sega will certainly make that a reality.

 

[ezodagrom]

Wasn't Sega only supposed to publish games from like, four franchises now?

What has been said is that SEGA is only going to publish games from popular franchises in retail, but they're going to focus more on digital games from now on.

 

[Shocking4U]

The more Double Fine products in the world the better.

This.
One of the most talented studios around

 

[Dice]

Sega is so cool these days.

 

[Chiaroscuro]

Isn't this game the Kickstarter founded one? With almost 2.000 k funded, why they need a publisher?

 

[Kifimbo]

Isn't this game the Kickstarter founded one? With almost 2.000 k funded, why they need a publisher?

No it's not the same game.

 

[nny]

Sega, Double Fine and Ron Gilbert? Love.

 

[zoku88]

Isn't this game the Kickstarter founded one? With almost 2.000 k funded, why they need a publisher?

Same company, different game (I'd assume.)

 

[Hot Coldman]

Well, I'm excited. Stacking was excellent, time for more Double Fine downloadable treats.

 

[V_Ben]

SEGA really does pick up the most surprising things, but this is totally awesome. Excited for Thursday now.

 

[dark_inferno]

Double Fine? Fuck yeah! Ron Gilbert? AWESOME! Sega? At least we get a decent PC Port.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Sega, Double Fine and Ron Gilbert? Love.

Why isn't that the official logo?

 

[iavi]

SEGA really does pick up the most surprising things, but this is totally awesome. Excited for Thursday now.

Yeah, them publishing Arkedo's next game surprised the hell out of me too.

 

[Thores]

Oh awesome.

What's interesting is that each character seems to be from a different era in time. You've got a cowboy, a knight, a modern day scientist, a space cadet (?) and a robot (?) and a couple of others I can't really place. This has a lot of potential if the image these people pieced together is accurate, so color me intrigued.

I wonder how much this concept overlaps with Tim's idea for Double Fine Adventure, though. I guess we'll see.

 

[Guri]

Ron already said this is some kind of mix between Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island. We already know that, for the MM part, we can control more than one character.