The $5 game comes to Steam this fall for the PC and Mac and is being released as part of Telltale Games’ Pilot Program — an effort to give new, risky game concepts a chance to shine. According to Connors, the game will have to sell between 100,000 to 200,000 units to be worth reviving as a franchise. “If this version with these game characters work, we will likely follow it up with new game characters or maybe other celebrities, rock stars and the like.”
Earlier, I said Penny Arcade didn't appeal to me. I've changed my mind. I do enjoy it, so looking forward to this game. Slightly more. Should be fun to play, plus, more Max!
OMG the quote on that poster is epic. I'm really looking forward to this game now. And yeah Tycho will be 3D... just, you know, shaded to look like a cartoon or something like that.
My first reaction was that it was a really impressive cell-shaded model.
After looking at it for a while, I could tell it's not real in-engine cell shading, so I thought it was maybe a 3D model that one of their artists "traced" the outline by hand to give it that cartoon outline.
The more I look at it, though, while it might be a 3D model as the base, it definitely looks like it was colored, shaded, and outlined by hand in photoshop. There are a few sharp lines that might suggest 3D, but they seem more to me like photoshop polygon lasso lines, rather than 3D polygon lines.
The Tycho art in the marketing materials is a 3D model that one of our artists drew over for the show. He'll be 3D in the game but we're still working on his look which is why he's not really in any screenshots yet.
The Tycho art in the marketing materials is a 3D model that one of our artists drew over for the show. He'll be 3D in the game but we're still working on his look which is why he's not really in any screenshots yet.
Penny Arcade can be very topical. If you don't get what's going on, often going to the linked news post will tell you what was going on in videogame news that day and make things make a lot more sense.
Also I'd suggest against going all the way back to the start. They've been going for a long time and have improved vastly as they have gone on.
For those of you reading back through the comics, I *HIGHLY* suggest you read the news post associated with each comic. As much of the humor and personality is in the post as it is in the comic. Admittedly, this might increase the time it takes to read through the backlog by an order of magnitude.
For those of you reading back through the comics, I *HIGHLY* suggest you read the news post associated with each comic. As much of the humor and personality is in the post as it is in the comic. Admittedly, this might increase the time it takes to read through the backlog by an order of magnitude.
That was really good advice, thanks for that. I have been doing that and it does help to know some of the back story regarding the strips especially the older ones when I don't really remember what they're talking about.
For those of you reading back through the comics, I *HIGHLY* suggest you read the news post associated with each comic. As much of the humor and personality is in the post as it is in the comic. Admittedly, this might increase the time it takes to read through the backlog by an order of magnitude.
Thanks for the suggestion. I just finished reading the comics and news reports concurrently and the hilarity of the strips increased exponentially, especially when concerning gaming topics I'm less familiar with (like MMORPGs).
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Not a lot of news, but one interesting quote:
Rock stars? Hm.....
I dunno, 100,000 seems a little ballsy.
If it were something like 25,000 or 50,000 I'd understand, but 100,000?
But I like the whole "new thing everytime" Telltale's picking up from Valve.
Well, best of luck for Telltale.
If you think about it, Telltale Texas Holdem' was the pilot title to this.
My first reaction was that it was a really impressive cell-shaded model.
After looking at it for a while, I could tell it's not real in-engine cell shading, so I thought it was maybe a 3D model that one of their artists "traced" the outline by hand to give it that cartoon outline.
The more I look at it, though, while it might be a 3D model as the base, it definitely looks like it was colored, shaded, and outlined by hand in photoshop. There are a few sharp lines that might suggest 3D, but they seem more to me like photoshop polygon lasso lines, rather than 3D polygon lines.
You can censor the swears.
the game has one
Wait, did you think you were going to have to sit there with a button to press to bleep out words? : P
Press the button combo fast enough, or suffer a curse-bomb
will tycho drop all those cusses or is it bleeped
This game will be about playing Poker with Tycho, The Heavy, Strong Bad and Max.
If you don't want to hear the cusses you won't have to.
If you DO want to hear them, I make no guarantees right now.
From what I'm hearing, there's an option to censor the swears, but I'm pretty sure he'll curse.
He says
http://vip.telltalegames.com/files/pokernight/screens090210/Poker%20Poster%20Tycho%203x6.jpg
Ahhhhh I totally called it
Further than me, I'm only up to 2003. Of course, I did take a break to watch the games on youtube....yeah...I have no life either...
I'm only up to 2001.
Also I'd suggest against going all the way back to the start. They've been going for a long time and have improved vastly as they have gone on.
That was really good advice, thanks for that. I have been doing that and it does help to know some of the back story regarding the strips especially the older ones when I don't really remember what they're talking about.
Thanks for the suggestion. I just finished reading the comics and news reports concurrently and the hilarity of the strips increased exponentially, especially when concerning gaming topics I'm less familiar with (like MMORPGs).