PAX: Live from the show floor
Posted by jake August 31, 2008
PAX is winding down (only four hours left!) and all is well. It seems like nearly everyone walking around the show is sporting a Strong Bad or Sam & Max pin, the Enforcers once again kept us stocked with water and amazingly helpful offers to help out, and we've all memorized every video playing at our booth (and the three adjoining booths). Nick played some Left4Dead, embarassed himself at Rock Band 2, and apparently won a t-shirt or something in a contest. We got a bunch of DeathSpank shirts from the Hothead guys. Daniel and Chuck spoke at panels about writing and art in games. Our booth was awesome!

We've been posting photos to flickr like crazy, so for a look around the show, be sure to check out Doug's, Nick's, Seg's, and my PAX photostreams.

Possibly best of all, though, our "Make a Scene With Telltale" panel went off without a hitch. We brought along a few PCs running copies of the Telltale Tool, filled a room with Strong Bad and Telltale fans, and through a carefully concocted mixture of meticulous planning and a lot of excited amused yelling, wrote, voiced, and produced a short SBCG4AP scene in under an hour. Lots of folks were there (we filled the room -- they were turning people away!), including IGN, GameVortex -- and probably some others which I can't load, thanks to the amazingly saturated free wifi -- but fortunately, through the new Telltale video site, you can check out the results of the panel yourself, and find out the real reason Strong Bad wasn't able to make it to PAX...



We'll all be trickling back into the real world over the next day or two, but in the meantime, huge thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth or went to the panel. If you didn't make it to PAX this year, hopefully we'll see you next time!
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Sorry about that. It should be working now! :)
Comment by Emily August 31, 2008, 4:24 pm
It's not working.
Comment by splash1 August 31, 2008, 4:25 pm
You might need to clear your cache if you've still got the old video cached (very likely).
Comment by Jake August 31, 2008, 4:31 pm
Heh...No offense but me and my little brother could done better with the impressions...You should implement a feature where you can create your own scenes. It would be Bro-Awesome!
Comment by HoolyRocket August 31, 2008, 5:10 pm
These non-real deal type impersonation bits always make me feel... unclean.
On the plus side, Homsar's looking pretty good in 3D.
Comment by TrogLlama August 31, 2008, 6:03 pm
3D Homsar made my day. So cute!
Comment by Nuroticat August 31, 2008, 6:13 pm
wish i could go there....but im too far away from seattle ;(
Comment by HOLY CRAP! August 31, 2008, 7:40 pm
Your booth was great this year! I didn't hang out nearly as much, though. All the crowds and stuff this year sort of threw me off...

But still! *hugs his Max pin* ^_^
Comment by Kedri August 31, 2008, 8:12 pm
I thought the impressions were quite good, but the script was a bit 'meh'.
Emily, why are you writing to Strong Bad? :P
Comment by Guybrush Threepwood September 1, 2008, 2:25 am
Jonathan Coulton, damn I wish I had gone, and was in the northern hemisphere
Comment by Lachlan_is September 1, 2008, 4:39 am
wow that was oober awesome
Comment by jaden551 September 1, 2008, 5:27 am
haha, that was gweat.
Comment by tobar September 1, 2008, 8:39 am
Emily, since your BFF with Stongbad, could you give him my number?
Comment by Harley Quinn September 1, 2008, 2:42 pm
For people who, for whatever reason, have yet to realize, this clip was made on the fly at the Penny Arcade Expo by a skeleton crew, and voiced by the audience.
Comment by Kedri September 1, 2008, 7:36 pm
We'll hopefully put up a more full video at some point here, which includes the creation process.
Comment by Jake September 1, 2008, 8:58 pm
That would have be really interesting to watch, I wish I cold have got involved!
Comment by Harley Quinn September 1, 2008, 10:16 pm
Where in Seattle is there a restaurant with a fireplace flanked by bookcases? I walked through half of the da%$ed downtown and saw not this library/dining combination.
Comment by Lena_P September 2, 2008, 9:22 pm
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