This is funny. Joystiq, which I don’t read too much because, like almost all gaming sites, they’re too console-gasmic, scores a win by asking a bunch of adventure game creators to solve a small hypothetical adventure game puzzle. Most participants, including Valve’s Eric Wolpaw and even my personal hero, Sam & Max’s Steve Purcell, don’t do much with the puzzle, which is, frankly, kinda lame.
Then they pose the question to Tim Schafer, the mind behind Full Throttle and Psychonauts. And he runs with it by actually playing it — them — as if he were actually in an adventure game. Hilarious.
And hats off to Joystiq, for keeping up with Schafer’s brain and creating, on the fly, a ridiculous but entertaining set of options. I hereby pledge to read their site more often.
Via RPS, the source of pretty much all my links.
21 responses so far ↓
1 Enedok // Mar 10, 2008 at 10:35 am
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2 Ayrton // Mar 10, 2008 at 10:44 am
“Though you’ve made it pasta this obstacle, you’d best consider an escape route if you don’t want to wind up in a penne-tentiary.”
Aha, I loved that bit.
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4 sortie // Mar 10, 2008 at 11:16 am
Hahaha, that’s fuckingly brilliant! What an excellent day where all my online comics and sites are 300% more hilarious than usually! :D
> Divide by zero
Unhandled exception at 0×004177f6 in 1Blog.exe: 0xC0000094: Integer division by zero.
5 Apollo // Mar 10, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I love love love Joystiq. Probably my only news feed. I know ludicrous right? Anyway I loved the one with Wolpaw and Shafer the most. And obviously Joystiq loves you too Chris they still bring up concerned.
6 chris12 // Mar 10, 2008 at 7:08 pm
woa, awesoem. a fun story. if it was made in flash…
7 LepperNation // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:15 pm
lol, now that i read the article, the title of the post make alot more sense
8 Pwnzerfaust // Mar 10, 2008 at 11:22 pm
>Laugh
You chuckle merrily at the amusing article. Shortly thereafter, you get hit by a bus.
9 Kazill // Mar 11, 2008 at 11:33 am
Chris12- If someone goes and makes this into a real adventure game, I will never again underestimate the internet.
Now to get a diet coke…
>East
10 Zereth // Mar 12, 2008 at 12:10 pm
> impulse 101
11 drunkymonkey // Mar 13, 2008 at 5:08 am
I liked Gilbert complaining it was a daft puzzle.
But Schafer diving straight into it and not explaining what it was he was doing was genius.
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You enter the cave and are quite likely to be eaten by a grue.
>eat grue
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