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Telltale's WiiWare Series Revealed!

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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.
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Awesome. Too bad it's 5 years too late.
 
I'm a bit disappointed... I was hoping it'd be another original adventure game, or a Bone port, or something else.
 
Princess Skittles said:
Lame x 10,000,000. Booooo!
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wow, what a huge disappointment. I was really hoping for something original, or at least something that hasn't been beaten into the ground years ago.

Hopefully in 3 years they will release a LOLCats adventure series as well.
 
The guy still does brand new cartoons on a regular basis it seems, so clearly he's still got a big fanbasestill watching him, or finding him for the first time.

Plus hey, Telltale have done a great job with Sam & Max, and the webgames the creator made plenty of pretty fun webgames too. It makes more sense game-wise than Penny Arcade or Little Gamers.
 
Rlan said:
The guy still does brand new cartoons on a regular basis it seems, so clearly he's still got a big fanbasestill watching him, or finding him for the first time.

Plus hey, Telltale have done a great job with Sam & Max, and the webgames the creator made plenty of pretty fun webgames too. It makes more sense game-wise than Penny Arcade or Little Gamers.
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The same argument could technically apply to Penny Arcade (despite the introduction of new characters)

In fact, I think a South Park Telltale game would make more sense than Strongbad.
 
Rlan said:
It makes more sense game-wise than Penny Arcade or Little Gamers.
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Penny Arcade has the whole awesome writer and artist thing going for 'em at least. Little Gamers, not so much.

I used to love Strong Bad. Question is, do I still.

I do still love Telltale...

Although WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO FINISH BONE. Assholes.
 
Well, that's a shame. I'm not a fan of Strong Bad. Unless this gets rave reviews I'll probably give it a miss.

At least they have Sam and Max coming out though, I'll be happy with that!
 
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but this isn't it. By the way, I thought Telltale confirmed the first episode for WiiWare launch just last week, but apparently that's not happening.
 
Man, all the webcomics are getting games. Penny Arcade, Homestar Runner, Little Gamers, Order of the Stick (boardgame). Dare I dream... God Mode Episodes?! Make it so, developers!
 
Sqorgar said:
Man, all the webcomics are getting games. Penny Arcade, Homestar Runner, Little Gamers, Order of the Stick (boardgame). Dare I dream... God Mode Episodes?! Make it so, developers!
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I guess those Major League Eating guys will need something to do later.
 
Sqorgar said:
Man, all the webcomics are getting games. Penny Arcade, Homestar Runner, Little Gamers, Order of the Stick (boardgame). Dare I dream... God Mode Episodes?! Make it so, developers!
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The one webcomic that could really use a game is 8-bit theater :lol
 
I hear that Nibris picked up the rights to VGCats on WiiWare.

First screenshot:
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What a bunch of killjoys you lot are. I'm looking forward to this. I never would of thought of it, but Homestar Runner and point and click adventures go together like peas in a pod. :D
 
SaggyMonkey said:
Won't happen. No one bought them. It'll be more likely to see a full boxed game based on the film version.
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You shut your mouth.

They weren't the greatest, but I loved the comic, and was actually enjoying the games. Being small-budget, it really shouldn't be as big a deal to make big money. They already have the engine done (though they might want to update it a bit at this point), but I'm fairly certain enough people will buy them to make up for whatever loss they had in the past. If indeed there was a loss.

Hell, with the "fame" achieved from the excellent Sam and Max episodes, the Bone sales would be higher than in the past, and with most of the assets already done, there's no reason NOT to.
 
I think Strong Bad is still pretty popular with a substantial audience, actually, so it kind of makes sense. I really liked those Videlectrix games, too.
 
TheOneGuy said:
You shut your mouth.

They weren't the greatest, but I loved the comic, and was actually enjoying the games. Being small-budget, it really shouldn't be as big a deal to make big money. They already have the engine done (though they might want to update it a bit at this point), but I'm fairly certain enough people will buy them to make up for whatever loss they had in the past. If indeed there was a loss.

Hell, with the "fame" achieved from the excellent Sam and Max episodes, the Bone sales would be higher than in the past, and with most of the assets already done, there's no reason NOT to.
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good to see you know better than the people at Telltale do
 
Must... buy. MUST BUY. The videlectrix games are actually quite good. I hope this involves throwing babies down a well or offering ogres a cold one.
 
Hmm, as much as I love the Bone comics, the games didn't do much for me. The last thing I want to see in WiiWare are ports, though.
 
FoneBone said:
:lol

I'd like to see more Bone games too, but not having any access to the numbers, you're being absurdly presumptive.
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I like to think of it as fantastically optimistic. IS THAT REALLY SO BAD!

):
 
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