Telltale Games
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | San Rafael (June 2004) |
| Headquarters | San Rafael, California |
| Key people | Dan Connors, CEO Kevin Bruner, CTO |
| Industry | Computer and video games |
| Products | See complete products listing |
| Website | www.telltalegames.com |
Telltale Games is a video game developer based in San Rafael, California and founded in June 2004. It was created by a group of former LucasArts employees who had been working on Sam & Max Freelance Police, a sequel to the 1993 game Sam & Max Hit the Road, prior to its cancellation on March 3, 2004. The company's CEO is Dan Connors who heads the company alongside cofounder and CTO Kevin Bruner. The Telltale Games team have a large collective experience of working on notable adventure games, some of which include Grim Fandango, Monkey Island and Sam & Max.
Telltale Games is designed around two concepts: episodic gaming and digital distribution.[1] They have distributed games through GameTap, Steam and various other distributors as well as their own direct channel.[2] Also, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is being released through WiiWare.
On February 11, 2005 the company released their first game — Telltale Texas Hold'em, a poker card game simulator. The game was solely available through electronic distribution from Telltale's and others' websites. Later that month on February 22, 2005 it was announced that the company would also be developing an adventure game based on the intellectual property of Jeff Smith and his Bone comic book series. Bone is to be released gradually through electronic distribution in episodic chapters. The first episode, Bone: Out from Boneville, was released in September 2005 while the second episode, The Great Cow Race, was released in April 2006.
Closely following the release of the first Bone episode, Telltale Games announced that they would be creating a new Sam & Max computer game, which would be released in the same episodic fashion. In May 2006, Telltale announced that the Sam & Max episodes would be shorter, self-contained, and more frequent than the episodes of Bone, and would also be made available via the GameTap game distribution service. The first episode of Sam & Max: Season 1 was released in October 2006. This will be released on WiiWare.
In November 2005, Ubisoft announced that Telltale was developing the next game for the popular CSI: Crime Scene Investigation television series. The game was released March 14, 2006.
On April 10, 2008, they announced a new episodic game series called Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, based on the online animated series from Homestarrunner.com, for the Nintendo WiiWare service and PC. The game has been developed in partnership with Videlectrix, a fictional company created by homestarrunner.com, and its first episode will be released in July 2008.[3]
[edit] Games by Telltale Games
- Telltale Texas Hold'em (2005)
- Bone: Out from Boneville (2005)
- CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder (2006)
- Bone: The Great Cow Race (2006)
- Sam & Max Season One (episodic, 2006–2007)
- CSI: Hard Evidence (2007)
- Sam & Max Season Two (episodic, 2007–2008)
- Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (episodic, 2008)
- Sam & Max Season Three (episodic, 2009)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.gamecyte.com/2008/05/28/the-telltale-art-heads-of-tales/1623 GameCyte - The Telltale Art: Heads of Tales
- ^ http://www.telltalegames.com/company/ Telltale Games - About Telltale
- ^ http://www.telltalegames.com/company/pressreleases/id-65 Telltale Games - Announcing Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People for WiiWare
