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Kirkman talks Walking Dead stuff (including game) with Collider

JakeJake Telltale Alumni
edited April 2011 in The Walking Dead
http://collider.com/robert-kirkman-interview-the-walking-dead-season-2/84388/

Robert Kirkman got interviewed by Collider and said a lot of nice stuff about us!
What is your level of involvement with The Walking Dead video game that is being developed?

KIRKMAN: I just had a meeting with them yesterday. I’m not writing the video game myself just because I don’t have time. I can say that I picked Frank Darabont for the show and I picked Telltale Games because they are very familiar with the comic book and they know what makes the comic book good and what makes the comic book “The Walking Dead” as opposed to just as, you know, zombies running around and cutting people’s heads off and stuff. If you want to buy a game where you run around and kill zombies with an uzi – that game exists and there are more of those games coming out. They are fun games and everybody likes them, but we are not going to try and compete with those games. We are going to try to do something a little different that is a little more true to The Walking Dead. Knowing that they are that invested in changing what you might expect from a zombie game and really brining the emotion and drama of The Walking Dead to video games makes me trust them. But I’m overseeing everything.

Comments

  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited April 2011
    It must be fascinating to speak with Kirkman about the creative core of The Walking Dead!
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2011
    He is super nonchalant about it, which is both surprising, because I was expecting a lot of intensity about it, and refreshing, because that's not what happened. It was great to be able to sit down with him and shoot the breeze about WD stuff for a few hours.
  • Hero1Hero1
    edited April 2011
    Awesome. Sounds like exactly the kind of person you would want to work with.
  • ScnewScnew
    edited April 2011
    I've always assumed Kirkman is a cool guy. Yay for my ability to assume stuff!
  • seanvanamanseanvanaman Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2011
    I assumed he was cool, but, like Jake, I was surprised by how cool he was. There's the guy who makes comics, gets a huge break and a bunch of money, and then spends a bunch of time talking about how important his craft is, and then there is Robert Kirkman, whose success has just allowed him to say what's on his mind at all times and have people listen. He's funny as hell, super foul-mouthed and just sort of a delight to be around.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited April 2011
    seanvanaman wrote: »
    super foul-mouthed and just sort of a delight to be around.

    Thats sort of a contradiction isnt it?
    Also did you perhaps be able to talk to him about Carl's likelyhood to live in the series after the last comic? As of right now he is the only one of my favorites still alive.
  • Cpt. SqwekyCpt. Sqweky
    edited April 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Thats sort of a contradiction isnt it?


    Agreed.
  • ScnewScnew
    edited April 2011
    Foul mouthed people can be both fun and nice.
  • RAnthonyMahanRAnthonyMahan
    edited April 2011
    What kind of genre is the game going to be?

    KIRKMAN: I don’t know what the technical name is. I know what the game is, but I don’t know if I can talk about it yet. I don’t know what the technical name for it is and I don’t know if I can say if it is. I do know that the game will have shooting. It just won’t be the focus of the game.

    Interesting. I'm hoping this just means Kirkman doesn't know the term "conventional point-and-click adventure", though. ;)
  • bluepotatosackbluepotatosack
    edited April 2011
    Scnew wrote: »
    Foul mouthed people can be both fun and nice.

    Agreed.
  • Giant TopeGiant Tope
    edited April 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Thats sort of a contradiction isnt it?

    Some of the nicest people I know use the word fuck and shit as part of their everyday language. Same with the selfless people I used to volunteer with.
  • seanvanamanseanvanaman Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2011
    The real take away is: Kirkman is just a regular dude. He is now a very successful regular dude but it feels like the success of The Walking Dead didn't make him think that now he has to be someone different. He's super great!
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2011
    RAnthonyMahan wrote: »
    Interesting. I'm hoping this just means Kirkman doesn't know the term "conventional point-and-click adventure", though. ;)

    Use knife with cut piece of plywood.

    [wait for zombie to walk into view]

    Use wood-shielded knife on chain link fence.

    "Wow! That got 'em!"

    KQ5_cedric_portrait.png -- "those FENCING LESSONS paid off after all!!"
  • BunnymanBunnyman
    edited April 2011
    Jake wrote: »
    Use knife with cut piece of plywood.

    [wait for zombie to walk into view]

    Use wood-shielded knife on chain link fence.

    "Wow! That got 'em!"

    KQ5_cedric_portrait.png -- "those FENCING LESSONS paid off after all!!"

    Oh Jake, you're such a hoot!
  • ScnewScnew
    edited April 2011
    Use GUN with ZOMBIE HEAD.

    Use GUN with ANOTHER ZOMBIE HEAD.

    Use GUN with ENDLESS SEA O' ZOMBIE HEADS.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited April 2011
    Scnew wrote: »
    Use GUN with ZOMBIE HEAD.

    Use GUN with ANOTHER ZOMBIE HEAD.

    Use GUN with ENDLESS SEA O' ZOMBIE HEADS.

    Wrong series.
    I think you mixed up the walking dead and left 4 dead.
  • BlankCanvasDJBlankCanvasDJ
    edited April 2011
    But will it have verb buttons? "Walk" "Pick Up "Look" "Look Horrified" "Look Hopeless" "Mutilate" "Slip Into Depression" "Go Mad"
  • ScnewScnew
    edited April 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Wrong series.
    I think you mixed up the walking dead and left 4 dead.

    No, this was just the puzzle in the game that teaches you that you don't want to use guns because then more zombies hear it and show up.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited April 2011
    Scnew wrote: »
    No, this was just the puzzle in the game that teaches you that you don't want to use guns because then more zombies hear it and show up.

    Oh now I get the joke.
    Seemed more like L4D than a joke there.
  • ScnewScnew
    edited April 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Oh now I get the joke.
    Seemed more like L4D than a joke there.

    (what Gman5852 doesn't know is that I only came up with an excuse as to why I wasn't wrong after he said I was)
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited April 2011
    Scnew wrote: »
    (what Gman5852 doesn't know is that I only came up with an excuse as to why I wasn't wrong after he said I was)

    (what Scnew doesn't know is that I can read that post as well)
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