Ask the Telltale Back to the Future Team (Almost) Anything!
We're doing another Back to the Future Q&A session (our last was with series co-creator Bob Gale), this time with some of the Telltale Games Back to the Future team.
We'll have first episode director Dennis Lenart and series designer Mike Stemmle up for questions this time around...and anybody else from the team that is in the vicinity.
Ask as many questions as you like in this thread (this is the only place I'll be taking questions from). Make sure to get them in by 12:00 pm PST on Monday, October 25 - I'll be closing the thread at that point.
Keep this in mind: This is a pre-release Q&A, so while you can leave any questions you like in the thread, things like 'what is the storyline for the entire season?', 'is so-and-so playing Character McGillicutty?' or 'what are all the time periods the game takes place in?' probably won't get answered. All that stuff will be officially answered in due time - it is the 25th Anniversary of the film's release soon isn't it?
Anyway, have fun asking your questions!
We'll have first episode director Dennis Lenart and series designer Mike Stemmle up for questions this time around...and anybody else from the team that is in the vicinity.
Ask as many questions as you like in this thread (this is the only place I'll be taking questions from). Make sure to get them in by 12:00 pm PST on Monday, October 25 - I'll be closing the thread at that point.
Keep this in mind: This is a pre-release Q&A, so while you can leave any questions you like in the thread, things like 'what is the storyline for the entire season?', 'is so-and-so playing Character McGillicutty?' or 'what are all the time periods the game takes place in?' probably won't get answered. All that stuff will be officially answered in due time - it is the 25th Anniversary of the film's release soon isn't it?
Anyway, have fun asking your questions!
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Maybe he was referring to Jurassic Park
Seriously though, excellent question! And if I may add something to it... Will the music be syntethized or will it have some live players?
Does this new title introduce any new concepts being introduced to the episodic adventuring formula now that Telltale seems to have all the basics down?
2. On a similar note, suppose you could get your hands on whatever license you wanted. Complete creative control, no questions asked. What would you give the Telltale treatment to?
3. This one's for Michael Stemmle specifically. You were heavily involved with Sam and Max Hit the Road, a game currently trapped in something of a legal limbo, since LucasArts still owns the game but not Sam and Max themselves. This isn't a "Is this going to happen?" question, but would you like to have Hit the Road resurrected in some way? (Be it a remake, a re-release, or maybe even using characters from it in future Sam and Max episodes.) And now that you've revived Sam and Max and Monkey Island, is there another old LucasArts adventure you'd like to breathe new life into?
4. What has working with Christopher Lloyd been like?
5. As a big fan of adventure games, from Infocom to Sierra to LucasArts to...well, Telltale, I'm grateful for how you've been contributing to a genre that would probably be dead without you. Do you hope your success will inspire other companies to make adventure games of your own, or are you happy to more or less have a monopoly on the genre?
6. Despite generally making your games with the PC in mind, nearly your entire library has had a console release at this point. Have you had any sort of difficulty developing your games for both computers and consoles? Which one have your games found more success in? Also, since you've experimented in portable gaming now by producing games for the iPhone and iPad, do you see any potential in bringing Telltale to the Nintendo 3DS?
7. I don't really have another question, but um...what's the deal with Superball? Every time we see that guy it just raises further questions.
Oops, thanks!
LOL, They're hardly going to say their somewhat embarrassed by it.
2) At any point in the series, will the DeLorean be damaged or some aspect of it rendered inoperable? (I ask because this seemed to be a major theme in the films
3) Will the time train be making an appearance?
Will Clara and the kids be protagonist at some point?(please say no, please say no...jajjaja
Is the game gonna be a "marty and doc adventures" through different time zones, changing history(say quantum leap, bill and ted, day of the tentacle) or would it be more focused on characters, and the close reality of the characters and their lives?
SO PSYCHEDDD.
Will we finally see Jennifer get fleshed out? Will Jennifer have an important story role?
Will you be approaching Steve Purcell or Drew Struzan for some exclusive cover art?
2. Are the episodes seperate, or part of one long story?
3. Is working on this game much different from working on others?
4. Are expecting to add any really challenging puzzles? (Please do!)
5. Should we consider the game cannon in the BTTF universe?
The game is good.
...Really????
One example of this is the DOTT puzzle in which you create Vinegar for the future, by sending a bottle of Wine to the past, and letting it age.
2- Will we ever see any regret for "improving" the future?
For instance, When Marty goes to the "new" 1985 at the end of BTTF1, he is forever locked away from his original parents.
While these new-and-improved parents are "better", he will never see the mom and dad he grew up with.
3- As Doc Brown explained, when you change the past, it splits off a new timeline. When you go forward, you reach this new timeline.. This means to the perspective of Marty's parents in timeline A, he left and never came back! ;(
4- What are your favorite time travel games? Have you played ChronoTrigger, Journeyman Project, DOTT, Shadow of Memories, Space Quest 4? What did you like or not like?
5- Will there be multiple player characters?
6- Will you be including easter eggs, if people enter dates that aren't specifically designed for the game? One example: In Space Quest 4, you can travel to Ortega, the are from SQ3. You immediately die
It might be fun to stop by the 1720s and visit an island in the tri-island area, or 1996 to visit Jurassic Park (If you have even one room ready, it would be amusing)
7- I recall you did a survey a while back, asking people what were the most important BTTF tropes.. Are you going to release the results to that publicly?
8- Your original announcement lists All the major consoles, plus PC and Mac. (http://yhoo.it/bw8TT5)
Is this still the plan? Will they all be released at once? What about iPad?
9- What factors have gone into the decision to be DL-only for consoles? While retail shopping isn't as strong as it once was, there is still a sizable community who only buy games in Gamestop/Bestbuy/Walmart. Your PC box sets are a great start, but why not do this for consoles, too? Expense?
10- Does time travel in the BTTF game use the "Delayed Ripple Effect", where in things fade out over time, or are changes instantaneous?
11- Can you give details on some of the specific edits that Bob Gale suggested?
12- Will you be including anything from sources outside the 3 movies? The Short-Lived Animated Series? Comics? etc?
2. Will we get a chance to physically drive the delorean around, or will it all be the same as a map screen?
3. Will we get to see more story involving Biff's or Marty's brother's past before the films?
4. If the answer to question 1 is yes, what sort of crazy inventory items can we expect to find in the series?
5. Will we run into Doctor Who at some point?
Will there be some hidden easter eggs or references to other Telltale Games?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP2vqHvTWec&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiF5lD2Bc8U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pv2GH1fTxk&feature=related
-The Gneech :cool:
I don't think they've explicitly said he isn't, just that Lloyd is the only person they're announcing so far.. Am I wrong?
-TG :cool:
And when will we finally see an ingame screenshot and/or trailer?
Not sure if you can/want answer those question, but hey at least i was able to restrain myself asking for the release date...
Also...
I can answer this one.
The game is an all-new story - so it's not the video game adaptation of the films.
I'd like to know this too. Bob Gale said no. One of the Telltale Guys said yes in an interview (while sitting in a Delorean). WHO DO I BELIEVE?
Also, it's spelled 'canon'.
I think that one's pretty clear too- Bob Gale doesn't consider it Canon, while the TellTale team does
But which canonicity is canon? *head explodes*
I'm pretty sure what Telltale said is that the game will follow the movies' canon, meaning that it won't contradict anything established in the movies. But there's a difference between following canon and being canon.
Keeping in mind that he has reprised the Marty McFly role recently for a Spike awards advert, will Micheal J Fox be doing the voice of our beloved hero?
The fact that Peter Sallis wasn't in the W+G games put me off getting them, to be honest. I don't know if the same situation would arise here, but I would be put off at first anyway...
Here's hoping!
is it coming out the way you imagined it to be?