yay we finaly have a relese date

[giant_frying_pan]

Originally Posted by meander

I hate that it's called Pacific time... New Zealand is in the Pacific too but we're 19 hours ahead of Telltale Time.

Okay then...the official time zone is UTC-8.

Now no-one else can try and spin it and complain when it doesn't come out on the 20th in their time zone! :p

[quickfics]

Originally Posted by giant_frying_pan

Okay then...the official time zone is UTC-8.

Man, I'm gonna need the Algebros to figure this out.

[SurplusGamer]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

The earliest release I could imagine would be 6pmPST/2amGMT.

I don't see why. TT usually release their games in the morning PST, and even when the release of the first chapter was delayed by some hours, it was released before 6pm.

However, I agree that a midnight release is extremely unlikely.

[GrimmGhost]

Originally Posted by agcereniv

...it only gives a max of 40 days for Ep3 to make release in September.

You do know that all thoes episodes are mostly done? (programming, most of CG) all TTG is doing is polishing it and adding some last minute changes to give us best product they can. It's not like they doing thoes episodes one after the other starting fresh...

[miles]

Does this mean the wii version is coming out the 20th as well?

[wingsofshadowss]

So download and play on 21st... gonna be a happy bday ^^ lol

[jhuddy]

I cannot wait!!!! Chapter one in my opinion was incredible! all the recent Monkey island news has filled me with so much pirates spunk, that i think im going to explode all over everyone's faces! kidding.

[ivan11111]

Woohoo! How awesome. I can't wait. Hoping for a bit of a ramp up in difficulty, but even if not it will be fantastic! I'm counting the days!

[meander]

Originally Posted by giant_frying_pan

Okay then...the official time zone is UTC-8.

Now no-one else can try and spin it and complain when it doesn't come out on the 20th in their time zone!

lol okay I like "Telltale time" tho - TTT! It's actually cool it comes out Friday here - no being sleepy at work the next day.

[adventureaddict]

Whee! So excited!
*makes a mental note for 21st of August* (substituting time difference).

[SurplusGamer]

Originally Posted by GrimmGhost

You do know that all thoes episodes are mostly done? (programming, most of CG) all TTG is doing is polishing it and adding some last minute changes to give us best product they can. It's not like they doing thoes episodes one after the other starting fresh...

Well that's not quite right, as I understand it it goes something a bit more like this:

In the months running up to Ch.1:

The basic character designs, overarching plot and other high level design elements are all figured out, basically everything that needs to be in place before you can start building a game so it's a lot of heavy planning.

Then it they're working on chapters simultaneously, so at about the time that ToMI was announced they were (more or less) about here:

Chapter 1 mostly built, still needed to finalise music and add visual polish, squish bugs, etc.

Chapter 2 getting voices recorded for it, world being built, etc.

Chapter 3 dialogue and other design-y stuff like puzzles being finalised

Perhaps Chapter 4 in early stages of fleshing out what was agreed way back at the start before Chapter 1 was made.

--

The two week so-called 'delay' in chapter 2 has probably knocked this slightly off kilter. For example, when Denny Delk was reportedly recording voices for Murray, I expect that would be about the time they were recording voices to Chapter 3 (in other words, don't necessarily expect him in Ch. 2 unless they slotted him in last minute). But anyway, the principle remains... right now they're polishing Ch. 2, Ch. 3 is probably close to being built, Ch. 4 is probably just about written and ready to have some voices recorded for it and so on. I'm just estimating, of course.

[balin2k]

heh heh awesome! i have a feeling its gunna be a good one

[tmfm2000]

Originally Posted by GrimmGhost

You do know that all thoes episodes are mostly done? (programming, most of CG) all TTG is doing is polishing it and adding some last minute changes to give us best product they can. It's not like they doing thoes episodes one after the other starting fresh...

still, it took 1 month + 13 days to get the second chapter done this way. why would the other chapters be done faster? I could be wrong, but I wouldn't go completely mad if the games were released within this kind of timeframe all the way through. I'm no expert at ttg release schemes (I got both sam and max 1&2 through retail). I'm just happy to get the games, heh

also: awesome to have a date to look forward to! woohoo!

[Frown]

YES! Now I'll just have to wait a few more weeks for the release... and then a few more weeks for the Wii release... and then some more weeks for the European release...

*sigh*

[Lennie Melvin]

Only 13 more days...

Does anyone else still have trouble adjusting to the fact that they made another Monkey Island? Just seems unbelievable after all that time... but I'm definitely not complaining

[GrimmGhost]

Originally Posted by tmfm2000

still, it took 1 month + 13 days to get the second chapter done this way. why would the other chapters be done faster? ...

Well, I think that relese of episode one is sort of critical moment, players get to know how the game is designed, music, voiceacting, cg, puzzles and so on, first critique shows on the web, so TTC can react and tweak some details to meke following episodes better.

[MusicallyInspired]

Maybe they made the release date later so it'd be out about the same time as the Wiiware version?

[SurplusGamer]

Originally Posted by tmfm2000

still, it took 1 month + 13 days to get the second chapter done this way. why would the other chapters be done faster?

Because they work on a few episodes simultaneously, spending an extra 13 days on episode 2 also means that they've already had more time on episode 3 and 4 at least (although since they are all at different stages, this extra time may manifest in different ways.)

It's perfectly reasonable to assume, until we know otherwise, that the next episodes will all arrive on the 20th-ish, because that extra time affects the whole series in different ways, not just the first episode.

Think of it this way: When they delayed episode 2 by about 2 weeks they didn't just stop working on episode 3, it meant that they had extra time for that one as well, and so on. The only way that wouldn't be true is if they went back to releasing episode 3 earlier in the month - but there's no incentive to do that. It would mean that 2 and 3 would be released too close together, and they'd have cut out all that nice extra time they've bought themselves.

[SHODANFreeman]

Posted in another thread, but it's relevant here as well:

For comparison, here are the release dates for Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People from last year:

Episode 1: August 11th
Episode 2: September 15th
Episode 3: October 27th
Episode 4: November 17th
Episode 5: December 15th

So yeah, they've been known to release episodes 3 weeks apart before, wouldn't be out of the question this season either.

[J Threepwood]

Originally Posted by wingsofshadowss

So download and play on 21st... gonna be a happy bday ^^ lol

download 22nd and ditto that sentiment