Welcome!

[hockeyalltheway]

In the immortal words of nearly everyone who's posted here, I am SO psyched for this! I couldn't wait for ToMI and I get the feeling S&M will be more of the same...but hey, it's Sam and Max, who WOULDN'T be willing to wait if the alternative was nothingness? Also, thanks to the free coupon, I'm now only one episode away from having the full season of Wallace and Gromit. Thanks, Telltale! Once again, you show why you're one of the best gaming companies out there.

[Falanca]

So yeah. A private forum.

How exclusive-y.

[Candyghost]

Again, you found out how to get bit more money from me...

I had a look at the screenshots and it seems you found out someone a bit more sexy than Bosco. ;o)

The graphics seems realy nice.

[Visstix]

EDIT: About that newspaper on the teaser page, you can sort of read the article. You can see that there is something actually written there - it's not gibberish - but it's too small to really make out. Anyone with photoshop who wants to enhance that picture?

There you go

[Tjibbbe]

Thanks, but I actually didn't mean the movie poster. There's a newspaper you can click on on the sidewalk on the Sam & Max-page with some funny headlines, an awesome piece of art and a (as of yet) unreadable article. Unless someone manages to enhance that picture of course.

Still, thanks for going through the trouble of enlarging that picture!

[Visstix]

yeah figured that out lol. mm dunno if thats possible its really blurry

[Dr_Worm]

Originally Posted by Tjibbbe

Thanks, but I actually didn't mean the movie poster. There's a newspaper you can click on on the sidewalk on the Sam & Max-page with some funny headlines, an awesome piece of art and a (as of yet) unreadable article. Unless someone manages to enhance that picture of course.

Still, thanks for going through the trouble of enlarging that picture!

I can make out most of it, I'll transcribe what I can later, but I can't figure out the second and third lines of the first paragraph.

[GozzoMan]

Originally Posted by avistew

The requirements, you mean the things that are written on the bottom right?
According to Will, they're higher than for Monkey Island, but not by much.

For a long moment I thought you were talking about subtitles
("written at the bottom", even "higher than")

Then I've got it and gone to the store: when I pre-ordered I haven't seen they were there specified at the bottom near the screenshots! Thanks

[Avistew]

Lol, I guess that would be confusing.
But I said "bottom right", not "bottom, right". And the subtitles aren't on the right, right? :P

But yeah, sorry about the confusion. I didn't think to scroll all the way down either at first. It has the requirements for both PC and Mac if anyone is wondering.

[DjNDB]

Originally Posted by Tjibbbe

About that newspaper on the teaser page, you can sort of read the article. You can see that there is something actually written there - it's not gibberish - but it's too small to really make out. Anyone with photoshop who wants to enhance that picture?

Does anyone else read "Indiana Jones" in the 4th column?

There are several funny approaches possible.

Crowd Sourcing
Write a clever software that segments the image into parts containing individual words and let people all over the world assign what words they think it could mean.

Image analysis
Use a variation of the method David Naccache and Claire Whelan used to decipher blackened text passages. It should obviously be a bit easier, except for the font identification. But since some words are readable quite well it should be possible.


Just for fun: 2nd Parapraph
Hello there, friends. I'm here today to tell you about a ... that affects ... all ... ... . I'm not talking about gwitting(?) ... ... a ... or a ... ... . I'm talking about gwitting(?) ... ....................................


So with a bit of Fantasy some people might be able to get through it.

[Avistew]

Originally Posted by DjNDB

There are several funny approaches possible.

Asking Jake

Originally Posted by Jake

It's "the plight of the adventure game bum" by Brendan Q Ferguson, with some Sam & Max related text at the beginning to throw people off the scent.

(I assume he means the sad plight, etc)

[PainDealer]

Damn you Telltale! I really can't hold onto my money when you release new stuff (S&M pre-order and some MI stuff today) Well, what has to be done has to be done. I'm really drooling for the new Sam & Max!

[DjNDB]

Originally Posted by avistew

Asking Jake

Too easy! I am a computer scientist, people expect me to find elaborate unnecessarily complicated solutions for simple problems!

Also it's more fun

Is the full text available somewhere?

It's mentioned in the blog but the link is dead.

EDIT: Here is The Sad Plight of the Adventure Game Bum

[Avistew]

The forum link is broken for me too and a google search yielded nothing.
Now I'm curious.

Obviously this whole Sam & Max 3 thing was just a pretext to pitch his blog post!

EDIT: neat, thanks!

[GinnyN]

Originally Posted by DjNDB

Too easy! I am a computer scientist, people expect me to find elaborate unnecessarily complicated solutions for simple problems!

Trust me, people do not expect that

Originally Posted by DjNDB

Also it's more fun

That's different!

[wildfire]

hello everyone, Really enjoyed the last two seasons of sam and max so cant wait for the next one .

[Remolay]

I'm in.

Hi I'm Remolay, and I'm a freelance police addict.

[Graywing]

Hello world!

[GozzoMan]

Originally Posted by GinnyN

Trust me, people do not expect that

But we computer scientists like to pretend to expect people are expecting that. So that we can have fun

[Falanca]

Originally Posted by GozzoMan

But we computer scientists like to pretend to expect people are expecting that. So that we can have fun

Totally seeing through the algorithm that you made here.