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[Mista]

A documentary released by Noclip titled Telltale: The Human Stories Behind The Games details the event and features four different former Telltale employees working there in different capacities: Kent Muddle (Cinematics Artist), Emily Grace Buck (Narrative Designer), Caroline Liddick (Community Media Manager), and Paul Mastroianni (Executive Assistant). They talk openly about friction between executives and developers, taking on far too many projects, on the fly changes the studio had to endure which lead to 80, 90 or even 100 hour work weeks, being stuck in a cycle of developing the same game formula endlessly, and the sudden closure that most in the company were totally unaware until the day it happened.

Telltale’s Closure Gets Detailed By Former Employees In New Documentary

gamingbolt.com

 

[Ownage]

Tragic, they had some strong IP. Needed better mgmt.

 

[jshackles]

Their games were really hit and miss for me, but the ones I liked (The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands) I loved.

Sad that their studio closure caused so much chaos for these people.

 

[Riven326]

It will be a cautionary tale going forward, hopefully.

 

[CaptainClaw]

Their games were really hit and miss for me, but the ones I liked (The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands) I loved.

Sad that their studio closure caused so much chaos for these people.

Yh I would have loved to have seen Season 2 of The Wolf Among Us.

 

[Enjay]

Ever since they died I can't stop hearing about them. Starting to think telltalegames was actually a rapper.

 

[SkinnerSw33t]

Watching now.

1. Loved WD 1.

2. Loved The Wolf Among Us. (Would pay for S2)

3. TftBL was cool but got praised too much. (and I'm a huge BL fan)

4. Everything else (and I played all of it afaik) was kinda meh.

Edit: lol "marriage didn't work out but the Telltale job did"

 

[ipukespiders]

Oh man, that thumbnail with The Wolf Among Us just re-reminded me we won't see another

 

[Mista]

Oh man, that thumbnail with The Wolf Among Us just re-reminded me we won't see another

Yeah. What makes it worse is that they announced it

 

[Pallas]

Was really looking forward to The Wolf Amomg Us season 2/sequel. I enjoyed a lot of their games, even the earlier and more difficult ones like Jurassic Park.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I think the main problem of this is are the Youtubers and Streaming that show the gameplay and the story.

The other part was the lack of a real choice with a real events, not only a illusional effect.

Bring games with different mode, seriously who wanted to play Batman, when there are games that are based on action and beat em up? who wanted to play a Batman with a Telltale-type approach, because honestly I would not do it and would prefer the action ones.

And the 3rd one was not improve their Engine.

 

[bitbydeath]

Missed opportunity not making it interactive.
Clementine Will Remember That

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I thought Harvey Weinstein was the next "Surviving" documentary? Not Telltale.

 

[The Scrivener]

Noclip docs are good, will watch. Telltale became Toldtell.

 

[Mista]

Was really looking forward to The Wolf Amomg Us season 2/sequel. I enjoyed a lot of their games, even the earlier and more difficult ones like Jurassic Park.

I liked their game to be honest. TWD: The Final Season saw a huge improvement tech wise
Just when they were getting the hang of it

 

[flashfire926]

Tragic, they had some strong IP. Needed better mgmt.

Uhh..... no? They never owned any IP, everything they ever made was liscensed off someone else.