Okay, maybe this isn't the update you've been waiting for, but it's an update, and we know you've been waiting!
It occurred to me today that it's been a while since we let you guys in on what we're up to. Lest you think that's because we're slacking off on the beach, I assure you, it's because we're all really busy doing stuff that you'll be thankful for later on. Like what? Oh, stuff like planning for Comic-Con, where there will be a signing with Steve and plenty of hands-on time with Sam & Max Wii and Strong Bad for people who attend the show, and ramblingblogs so those of you who aren't attending can live vicariously through our sleep deprived haze. We're doing panels at Comic-Con, too... the schedule hasn't been announced yet, but as soon as it is, we'll clue you in! We've also got the Season Two DVD and some other new merchandise coming to the store soon, so woo!
On top of this, we're making some games! Sam & Max for the Wii has reached the stage where the Wii fairy touches it with her wand and, with a poof of magical sparkles, it turns into a real live game on store shelves. (Watch for it at retail this fall!) Then there's Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People... just because we're not talking about it doesn't mean we're not working on it! A lot of people have been asking us about the release date, and you can rest easy that as soon as we know when the game will launch, we'll pass the details on to you. Don't forget, the WiiWare and PC releases of SBCG4AP will be simultaneous! Everyone wins!
We're also plugging away on our super secret, not yet announced game series and it's coming along swimmingly. We should be able to spill some details pretty soon, which is good, because this game looks too good to keep it a secret much longer. (Okay, fine, you want a hint? It's a pretty big franchise, and one I bet none of you are expecting...)
So yeah, lots going on around here, and it's time for me to quit gabbing and get back to doing my job. Whatever happened to taking summers off?
Okay, maybe this isn't the update you've been waiting for
women can be cruel...
Comment by fco.
July 11, 2008, 10:58 am
yes....yes they can....
Comment by splash1
July 11, 2008, 11:08 am
Why don't I see telltale's logo anywhere on that box?!
Comment by some nerdy guy
July 11, 2008, 11:37 am
Why don't I see telltale's logo anywhere on that box?!
Nintendo will only allow the publisher's logo on the front and since becoming an official Wii publisher involves going through some hoops Telltale has let The Adventure Company be the sole publisher as far as Nintendo is concerned.
Comment by Harald B
July 11, 2008, 11:46 am
Why don't I see telltale's logo anywhere on that box?!
Nintendo will only allow the publisher's logo on the front and since becoming an official Wii publisher involves going through some hoops Telltale has let The Adventure Company be the sole publisher as far as Nintendo is concerned.
You would have thought they would let the developers logo on too. It seems cruel crediting the marketers but not the creators.
Comment by Shmeh
July 11, 2008, 1:40 pm
Wasn't the new serie supposed to be an original IP ?
I'm a bit disappointed that it's yet again an adaptation or a revival of some series.
But mostly, I'm frightened by the possible nature of this 'pretty big franchise, one [they] bet none of [us] are expecting': could it be Docteur Qui? did everybody at Telltale suddenly reveal their deep love of Seven Heaven? Or is it some kind of avant-garde work like adapting the Yellow-Pages? Or worse, could it be one of those mythical and much beloved franchises nobody really wants to see resurrected?
Comment by vimes
July 11, 2008, 1:41 pm
"swimmingly"...."spill" hmm.......*ponders*
Comment by tobar
July 11, 2008, 1:59 pm
*light bulb!* GASP! Could it be? The Artemia Nyos are getting a game from Telltale? *ponders that awesomeness*
Comment by tobar
July 11, 2008, 2:02 pm
I *knew* it!
Episodic Spongebob!
Comment by Rather Dashing
July 11, 2008, 2:26 pm
Wasn't the new serie supposed to be an original IP ?
I dont think anyone at Telltale ever said that. People on the boards hoped it maybe, but nope. It's an existing property, and it's a cool one.
Comment by Jake
July 11, 2008, 2:41 pm
A big franchise, eh?
Comment by Guybrush Threepwood
July 11, 2008, 2:59 pm
Bah! Emily, that hint was cruel! The speculation shall start gnawing at the corners of my psyche. *grumble, grumble*
P.S. I still love you, Telltale...
Comment by UWWJedi
July 11, 2008, 3:02 pm
errrr.... Star wars? HALO!
Comment by Trixie
July 11, 2008, 3:04 pm
OK, Jake, thanks for the clarification.
Comment by vimes
July 11, 2008, 3:07 pm
Oh man it is Halo, how'd you guess?
Comment by Jake
July 11, 2008, 3:10 pm
Hmmm.... depending on how much Emily is reversing psychology... Monkey Island? Nah, mustn't get my hopes up. But you have to admit, that would be an unexpected turn of events... and a pretty interesting one, at that.
By the way, Jake, not to contradict you (I'm sure you're in the know) but I distinctly remember somebody from TTG saying that you would soon be doing a game based on your own IP. It was in connection with a promotion of SBCG4AP, I think.
BTW, the abbreviation for StrongBads etc. etc. is quite the killer - couldn't you gave added a few more letters....?
Comment by Saile
July 11, 2008, 3:55 pm
Yeah, you've GOT to top PPA:OtRPoD somehow. :D
Comment by Dedlok
July 11, 2008, 3:59 pm
P.S. I still love you, Telltale...
hey i'm the Telltale lover!!!!
Comment by splash1
July 11, 2008, 4:22 pm
cheers for the Halo franchise! Finally, a good adventure-game based Halo. I can't wait for my point and click alien smashing mayhem.
Nah, I bet it's the Putt Putt franchise and that crazy Sammy dude, to appeal to the younger Telltale audience. That certainly would diversify the large young-mid-range adult audience Telltale has been building. Putt Putt goes to Hell!
Comment by Edgy_McSpoon
July 11, 2008, 5:05 pm
mmm, I've never heard Telltale saying they were going to be doing an original IP anytime soon. In fact, I remember them saying that they're quite happy utilizing existing franchises as you get a built in fan base and they're easier to market. And....that they'd like to do an original IP someday but not anytime soon. At least that's how I remember it.
Comment by tobar
July 11, 2008, 5:05 pm
Hmmm.... depending on how much Emily is reversing psychology... Monkey Island? Nah, mustn't get my hopes up. But you have to admit, that would be an unexpected turn of events... and a pretty interesting one, at that.
It is not Monkey Island.
I distinctly remember somebody from TTG saying that you would soon be doing a game based on your own IP. It was in connection with a promotion of SBCG4AP, I think.
I think Dan said in an interview recently (which I can't find right now) that within a year we'd be in a position to develop something from our own IP if we chose to. But everything we have in development right now is licensed. If we ever implied otherwise, it was not intentional.
Comment by Emily
July 11, 2008, 5:06 pm
DANG IT!!!! i just bough sam and max season 1 !!!!!!!!!!! but like i said in the hat blog, for some reason, when i try to play a level the first time, it wont let me in. I NEED HELP TTG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by biscuitdoughhandsman
July 11, 2008, 5:38 pm
Yeah, i beat Season one like, a few weeks ago. And almost done season two... yeah i know i got hooked. :D but thats awesome! I may get the game just for an awesome "i have this check it" type thing. And a new franchise... well ill give you guys one thing, you are creative, to make a Strong Bad game is purely out of the blue. I have a feeling we're gonna be blown away. ^-^
Comment by moviemaniac1127
July 11, 2008, 6:29 pm
*multiple expletives deleted* I was SURE this was the update I was waiting for...
Aaaaanyway, big franchise... not expecting... OH! I bet its a Dilbert game.
Comment by abcxyq
July 11, 2008, 8:36 pm
How big is big? Can I assume it's something an Average Joe would be familiar with?
Comment by L33tmin
July 11, 2008, 8:54 pm
biscuitdoughhandsman, please post in the support forum or email us at support@telltalegames.com with details about the problem you're having. We can't really provide tech support through the blog comments. ;)
Comment by Emily
July 11, 2008, 10:28 pm
women can be cruel...
Only cos it's ridiculously fun.
As for it being an adaptation from from another franchise, as it's not sadly going to be MI and probably not Day of the Tenticle, I can only hope it's from one of my favourite cartoon series!
Comment by Harley Quinn
July 11, 2008, 11:45 pm
Gah, I was expecting "Here's the season 2 dvd and Case File *various details* Pre-order Now!!!"
But, this was good too. I can't wait to see the new game that's coming out. Can't we get another hint? A corner of a game screen or something? :)
Comment by Freelance Poster
July 12, 2008, 7:28 am
It's Futurama. Bigger than Sam & Max and Bone. I can't imagine it being one of the old Lucasarts franchises, as I believe they still hold all the rights to those games. It would be perfect for the new celshading techniques they have over at Telltale.
That, or Discworld.
Dear God, please let it be Discworld.
Comment by Tjibbbe
July 12, 2008, 8:56 am
[b][i]GASP![/b][/i] Futurama would be great! Give us like 5 pixels!
Well, the franchise is "pretty big", not "BIG". I guess you can file Strong Bad as "pretty big", so... I give up. :-P
Comment by Diduz
July 12, 2008, 11:37 am
Um, I'm definitely not saying "yes" either.
Comment by Jake
July 12, 2008, 11:47 am
Oh, I know that. But let me live my dream, these last few days before the big announcement. This is where I get the energy to live my life to the fullest. Hopes! Dreams!
By the way, I wonder if we are ever going to hear something about that Flint Paper-series someone mentioned in some interview, somewhere...
Comment by Tjibbbe
July 12, 2008, 11:55 am
I was going to say Futurama, but that's been mentioned already (and been done aswell).
I also wouldn't call Day of the Tentacle a big franchise, but it would be nice though. Isn't there someone at TTG who has worked on DOTT? I think there is.
What other big franchises can we think of?
Hmmm... McDonalds Hamburgler? Where in the world is Paris Hilton (sponsored by the hotel chain)? Ren & Stimpy? Awwww... I wanna know!
Comment by barchetta
July 12, 2008, 12:14 pm
How about...
hhmmm...
OOHOOH I KNOWIKNOW!
Family Matters. Or Full House.
'nuff said.
Comment by Klemmins
July 12, 2008, 3:36 pm
Ren & Stimpy might have been BIG ten years ago, but it's only .... (that's BEEG in 2 point type) now.. Sad to say, but that's the way it is.
Day of the Tentacle was Maniac Mansion II. Personally, I wouldn't be all that distraught if I never saw another Maniac Mansion game ever again. Monkey Island, however, would be cool.
I know! Guitar Hero Adventures! (He says, with his tongue fully out in order to avoid the stuff that's coming up right behind.)
Comment by Lemmingsmeister
July 12, 2008, 5:45 pm
XKCD: The Game
Comment by Kedri
July 12, 2008, 6:45 pm
no. one of the best games ever would be the game thats in the Californication music video.
Comment by biscuitdoughhandsman
July 12, 2008, 8:03 pm
P.S. thanks for the help emily
Comment by biscuitdoughhandsman
July 12, 2008, 8:04 pm
I bet you any money we're all gonna not see it coming. Heck ive been a homestar fan for years and thought SBCG4AP was truely fake but its real... the real thing to look at is that telltales gonna do something new, never done before... no, not Discworld. xD but who really knows? Im crossing my fingers. :D
Comment by moviemaniac1127
July 12, 2008, 9:06 pm
I think Klemmins has guessed it with Family Matters and every time you accidentally bump your character into a wall or object he goes "Did I do that?". Did I mention that the environments are crammed with objects to bump into? ;)
Comment by Shmeh
July 13, 2008, 12:52 am
A Batman detective game would be sweet, but I don't think you have bought the rights for that!
Comment by Harley Quinn
July 13, 2008, 1:15 am
With all the hints so far, it looks to me like it's going to be Finding Nemo! Except getting a property away from Pixar and (especially) Disney has gotta be even harder than getting something out of LucasArts!
Comment by WarpSpeed
July 13, 2008, 8:46 am
A big franchise? You mean like Star Wars and Spider-man kind of big?
Comment by Awesome5
July 13, 2008, 10:36 am
[quote] BTW, the abbreviation for StrongBads etc. etc. is quite the killer - couldn't you gave added a few more letters....? [/qoute]
If you wanna make it shorter, then try SBCG for Strong Bad's Cool Game.
Comment by Awesome5
July 13, 2008, 10:40 am
Doom, the Game.
Home Improvement, the Game.
Knight Rider, the Game.
Smurfs, the Game.
Sims, the Game.
Married .. with Children, the Game.
By the way, nice Wii box -- with red logo and not too transparent looking trouser on Sam.
Oh, and ... the ttg logo at the bottom of this page is overlapping this textbox, so I can't see what I'm tyhping, not can I see where the submit button is ...
Comment by barchetta
July 13, 2008, 11:38 am
'nor'
Dukes of Hazzard, the Game. But of course!
Comment by barchetta
July 13, 2008, 11:40 am
Considering the indie comic nature of Bone and Sam and Max, I'm going to guess The Tick. Not only was it a popular series back in the day, but the title character fits a more literal interpretation of the word "BIG" as well.
Comment by bakakaba
July 13, 2008, 11:52 am
How about Duckman? A Tick game would be all kinds of awesome, too.
Er, maybe a Napoleon Dynamite game?
Comment by Nuroticat
July 13, 2008, 12:30 pm
Another awesome possibility would be a game based on Bloom County/Outland/Opus.
Comment by Nuroticat
July 13, 2008, 1:01 pm
We're also plugging away on our super secret (of Monkey Island), not yet announced game series and it's coming along swimmingly. We should be able to spill some details pretty soon, which is good, because this game looks too good to keep it a secret (of Monkey Island) much longer.
;)
Comment by Nuroticat
July 13, 2008, 1:38 pm
*Hums Monkey Island theme until Telltale implodes in frustration*
...because no one else is making Final Fantasy games these days?
Comment by Emily
July 14, 2008, 7:56 am
How about Garfield?
Comment by yS_
July 14, 2008, 8:05 am
I just want to check something : if by any chance someone was to guess the right franchise, you wouldn't point it out, would you ? ;)
Anyway, using the context of the studio in Telltale Games - The Game like Ghibli did with The Ghiblies ... that'd be an awesome idea.
Comment by vimes
July 14, 2008, 8:23 am
Any way, using the context of the studio in Telltale Games - The Game.......... that'd be an awesome idea.
See I told you guys people would like my idea! HOOO YEAH!!!!!!! I think you at telltale should really think about this.
Comment by biscuitdoughhandsman
July 14, 2008, 8:34 am
I have another one... Ghandi the musical.
Comment by Klemmins
July 14, 2008, 11:50 am
delay: the game
delay good games in no time at all ,delay,delay on the deadline ,what do you do ,delay
Comment by stronggamer
July 14, 2008, 2:12 pm
It IS Telltale Games the game and you're playing the beta right now. It's an exciting real time simulation of wild speculation based on nothing.
...Is it The Adventures of Brisco County Jr the Game?
Comment by boo
July 15, 2008, 4:41 am
*chants* Please be an Indiana Jones game. Please be an Indiana Jones game...*sobs due to lack of new Monkey Island game in years*
Comment by spielbergfan1
July 15, 2008, 9:06 am
@spielbergfan1
Hmmm... maybe, just maybe Lucas Arts has the rights to Indiana Jones ...? ...
Comment by barchetta
July 15, 2008, 12:04 pm
Well... ok then. TellTale still gets some Mone-h from this, too, right?
lol, still, I'm wondering... it says Season One... does this mean ALL the episodes? or is it too good to be true?
Comment by Shambling Corporate Poster
July 15, 2008, 1:11 pm
A list given by Nintendo says august 12 for the Sam & Max Wii version.
On top of this, we're making some games! 
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