Annual Halloween contest - be creative, win big!
Posted by Emily October 7, 2008
Pumpkins beware! After much deliberation*, we're bringing back the Halloween contest for a third incarnation. And with Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People in full swing, we're extending it to the Homestarrunner.com universe as well as Sam & Max!

How does this contest work?
It's easy! (Or complicated, your call.) Just come up with something creative that relates to Sam & Max and/or Strong Bad and submit it to us at contest@telltalegames.com to be considered. Halloween themes are optional, but we love 'em! The deadline is October 28, and we'll announce the winners on Halloween.

Not sure what we're talking about? Take a look at some of the previous entries...

2007 winners | Some other 2007 entries | 2006 winners | Some other 2006 entries

Of course, we're not suggesting you go out and do exactly what these people did. In this contest, creativity counts! So come up with something awesome, artistic, or completely ridiculous. The best entries tend to be the ones that make us go "what the hell?" for a few seconds before we get the joke.

The contest will be judged by Telltale staff and some of our closest friends (quite possibly including Steve Purcell and the Brothers Chaps). We'll choose three winners.

Okay, blah blah blah. What are the prizes?!
Each winner will get to choose between a Sam & Max prize pack (Season Two downloads plus collector's DVD, soundtrack, and case file) or a Strong Bad prize pack (Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People downloads and Strong Bad Emails 3-DVD box set), PLUS one of the t-shirts we sell in our store (you choose the style and size).

To help you comprehend the massive awesomeness of these prizes, here are some gratuitous graphics...



Are there any other rules?
Yes. Don't do anything illegal or that would make baby Jesus cry. Also:
  • Send your entries to contest@telltalegames.com with "Halloween contest" in the subject line. Your entry must be received by 9:00 am Pacific time on Tuesday, October 28 to qualify.
  • You can submit as many entries as you like, but can only win once.
  • Please don't send attachments over 2MB. If your entry is bigger than that, host it somewhere else and send us a link. (Our server thanks you!)
*Okay, there wasn't really any deliberation involved.
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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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We're off to PAX!
Posted by Emily August 28, 2008
Man, the airport is empty at 5:00 in the morning.

Anyway, we're off to PAX! Today half of the group heads out to build our booth and get everything set up, and tomorrow the other half will show up to take place in Telltale's panel and enjoy the general revelry that is PAX. We'll be at booth 612 (right in front of the entrance to the exhibit hall... can't miss us!) Sam & Max and Strong Bad will be playable, we'll have merch for sale, and depending on the time of day and the amount of sleep we got the night before, we may even engage in intelligent conversation.

If you're in Seattle, come see us! And you'll definitely want to check out our panel, "Make a Scene with Telltale: The Strong Bad Edition," which is at 7:30 on Friday in the Raven Theater. Unfortunately the internet is thwarting my attempts to post the panel description here, and my flight is about to board, but trust me, it'll be awesome.
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Behind the Booth: The making of... our booth.
Posted by jake August 25, 2008


PAX, the Penny Arcade Expo, is coming up this weekend, and we'll be there. In a booth.

PAX has quickly become our favorite show of the year. From the engaged show attendees who actually know who we are and play our games, to our now annual "Make a Scene with Telltale" panel, to what is probably the most cordial and generally awesome expo security force in the world (Seriously, last year they came by and gave us water and soft drinks on a regular basis. This is amazing.), PAX is my friend. Anyone who loves any type of gaming should probably go. You won't regret it.

Anyway, the booth! We have one this year, and it is ridiculous. Last week a few of us got together in a warehouse to try and put the booth together once, as a test. Fortunately, it looks great. Unfortunately, the fully assembled booth won't be something we can show you until PAX starts on Friday -- in the grand tradition of all Telltale trade show coverage, our camera totally failed the moment we got the booth all the way built, and started taking photos of nothing but blackness.

We documented the actual assembly process, and some of the art, though, and thought you might want to see it. So, without further ado, here are a bunch of pictures of us putting together some sort of crazy wood and aluminum contraption that will be our PAX booth.
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