Telltale Games

Another weekend's gone by and weekends often mean time to play games, in this case Law & Order: Legacies! Episodes 1 thruough 3 are now available on iOS (and coming soon to PC/Mac) and we want to hear your take on the game so far! 

Are you a longtime Law & Order fan? Have you played through all three released episodes so far? What's been your favorite moment while playing Law & Order: Legacies so far? What do you think will happen next in Rey Curtis' overarching storyline? We want to hear what you have to say. 

Leave your comments, thoughts, opinions, what have you, about Law & Order: Legacies and get into the conversation. 

Haven't purchased Law & Order: Legacies yet? Get it on the iTunes App Store now! Also coming soon to PC and Mac!

Last year I featured Telltale core engineer Bruce Wilcox on the blog when he won the 2010 Loebner Award because he successfully tricked a judge into believing his chatbot was actually a human. Chatbot season is back in full-force as this year's Loebner Awards approach and Bruce is back at it with another entry. I've asked him to write up a bit about himself to give you guys a look at what he does at Telltale and beyond and he graciously accepted. Read on to find out more about Bruce! 

Note: The above video above, while awesome, is not something Bruce has worked on himself but is related to the coming Loebner awards. Bruce mentions this video in his blog, below. So take it away Bruce!

I’ve been asked to write this blog about myself, so here it is. 

I am a long-time AI programmer, both in the real world (e.g., autonomous aircraft) and in the game world (among other things I wrote the first successful Go program). You’d think there wouldn’t be a lot of call for an AI specialist in a company like Telltale. Their games are adventure story. You point and click, the system gives you a visual result. It’s not like the characters get to act autonomously. If they did, they’d always be trying to kill you. Not quite the experience Telltale sells.

Read the rest of Bruce's tale after the jump!

In fact, Telltale advertised for a core engineer. At TTG engineers come in three flavors. Core engineers work on “the Tool” in C++, the combination authoring and playback system that runs all Telltale games on all platforms. Content engineers program specific games, using the Tool and Lua. Web engineers handle the website and servers. TTG games don’t interact with servers during gameplay, but have always been downloadable.

Guys and gals, we're super excited to announce that we've just made the Collector's and Deluxe Editions of the Mac and PC version of Back to the Future: The Game live and available to order and added some new merchandise to the store! For the first time ever, you'll be able to physically get your hands on Back to the Future: The Game "feelies" (remember those cloth maps from your PC games of old?)!

Here's a rundown of all the new stuff:

Collector's Edition: 

It's $24.99 plus shipping or you only pay shipping if you already own the full season of Back to the Future: The Game!* It contains all five episodes and includes behind the scenes videos, team commentaries, trailers, promo art, and more! Longtime fans of our games know just how cool these are!

Deluxe Edition: 

$44.99 plus shipping or pay only $19.99 plus shipping if you already own the full season of Back to the Future: The Game!* Limited to an initial 2,500 piece manufacturing run, the Deluxe Edition features unique Deluxe Edition cover art and contains a Hill Valley Historical Society Photo Album, Doc Brown's Notebook, Trixie Trotter's Postcard, and Doc's Original Flux Capacitor Sketch! Yes, this comes with the Collector's DVD in the box!

You do NOT want to miss out on getting your hands on all of these Hill Valley historical artifacts! 

New Merch:

Now available are a full-size (26"x40") Back to the Future: The Game movie-style poster and an Art-Portfolio featuring 9"x12" suitable-for-framing artwork from the game. Think the Tales of Monkey Island art portfolio on that one! 

That Back to the Future poster is freaking huge, you'll definitely want to display that one proudly!

Oh yeah, place an over $50 order now until August 31 and get 15% off your entire order! All new merch will begin shipping in September. 

What's got you most excited from these new Back to the Future-releated goods in the Telltale Games store?

* To recieve the Collector's Edition for the cost of shipping of the Deluxe Edition for $19.99 plus shipping, you must have purchased the season (PC/Mac) from the Telltale Games Store. Sorry, we can't extend this offer to iPad, PSN, or other PC/Mac purchase outlet customers.

Telltale Games will be in full force at PAX Prime this year (that's this weekend), with a blown-out Jurassic Park themed booth including replica Jurassic Park gates, a Jurassic Park gas-powered jeep, playable demo stations, and poster and t-shirt giveaways - as well as our Make a Scene Panel where the audience helps us make a scene in one of our games!

As well as all that fun stuff, we'll be there documenting as much as we can as we scour the show floor and the surrounding areas for fun stuff to get on video to show the fans at home - much as we did during San Diego Comic Con!

Tune in each morning during PAX for the latest in our PAX Prime 2011 video series!