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dagashi writes "'The ingenious, creative mind of Matt Groening (The Simpsons) now brings arguably his greatest creation yet, Futurama, to the interactive entertainment screen.' Looks like Futurama is signed to become a game. Yeha!"
Frankly, I'd rather have the TV show.
Just in time for the New season! (Wait, aren't they canceled?)
blackjack? And hookers?
I didn't watch Futurama... please tell me shiny is spelled this way out of reverence to something in the show.
- DDT
So long, michael. Don't let the door hit you...
Based on one of the greatest television series ever, has a lot going for it, except one thing - the lack of it being for pc. ... Good point, Bender.
After all of high-quality, super-fun-to-play Simpsons games, I'm very excited about this.
Don't forget that Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.
This will go down in history right beside the many memorable, thrilling, and compelling Simpsons games for the NES and SNES, as well as nearly every other license-based game ever made. I can hardly contain myself.
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
License!=Good Game
Maybe this will be as difficult as all those simpsons NES games. They were almost as hard as super star wars.
Futurama will be released at the hight of its popularity. Exactly one year after its cancelation from FOX.
Great Timing!
Because it follows in a long line of TV franchises turned into fine video games? (too bad Slash is stripping sarcasm tags)
This is great news, after all we know how great the simpsons games have been....
Oh crap.
Hemos -- how many people have to yell this?
do you not have a spell checker?
or do you just not care?
Has TV show ever succesfully transferred to a successful, fun video game? I can't think of any.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
Talk about a mountain of information! Who needs gameplay details? Why even bother telling us it'll be out "when it's done?!?"
(I think this is the one Slashdot story where you probably won't have anything more interesting or insightful to contribute if you bother to follow the link.)
the show was pretty good, but that doesnt really mean that the game will be any good...it will probably be dry and stupid.
its only possible value might be the 'laugh factor' at its inane stupidity, which may hearken back to the ultra-high-quality simpsons games.
"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything." -Pierre Fermat
Hi, is there any game of TV series out there that is really fun for more than 2 minutes? I just remember a disney game ("duck tales"? I'm not sure...) on the old gameboy...
My spirit takes a journey through my mind...
now YOU can navigate through fry's small intestine, defeat the "truck stop sandwich" parasites, find the splanknic ganglion, and personally tickle it. Yay!
Normally I wouldn't say this, but this is old news indeed. It was announced and UDS got the rights in September of 2000... there's a reason it says (c) 2001 on the bottom of that page. CGEF has a little more info here, although it's a mixture of fact and guesswork.
I honestly did enjoy some of the early Simpsons games (can't tell if other comments are being sarcastic or not - Bart vs The Space Mutants and the original arcade game are fun) and am looking forward to this. Maybe it'll be good use of a TV license.
they are still showing unaired episodes that stockpiled up. They just arent producing new ones because of the overstock.
Remember the Simpsons arcade game? That was a good conversion to game -- people had fun playing it. If people have fun playing the Futurama game, why would you stand in their way?
Judging by the last new episodes I watched; I think this game is going to be football based.
The real score would be a Temptation Island game, though. Tiffani may have been underutilized on the show, but I can assure you she'd play a much more prominent role in my fantasies, errrr, gaming.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
What about a beowulf clus..... ....err ... wait... wrong line.
... oh yeah!
I forgot
Does it run on linux?
As long as I dont have to go around and spray paint random objects so the aliens won't take over Springfield I'll be happy.
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gj
futurama is good for its writing. not its graphics. I can bet that the graphics in any futurama game will likely look close to the TV show - in which case, I'll play Hitman 2, UT(X) and other visually pleasing games.
Its kind of like southpark on DVD - I bought the movie and watched it maybe two times ever.... waste of money.
Wow, I got a troll rating. There must be a few Futurama fans I offended...
The Political Programmer
If there was ever a game that should use cell shading this would be it. Hell, half the show already looks like Jet Grind Radio, they could probably recycle all the sets. :)
Let's fire up Yacc. Okay, I've parsed these statements, and yes, they really are an advertisement for a videogame.
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The ingenious, creative mind of Matt Groening (The Simpsons) now brings arguably his greatest creation yet, Futurama, to the interactive entertainment screen.
so, this parses into
{TAGLINE} {TAGLINE} {PLUG}
Featuring Bender, Fry, Leela and a whole host of other Futurama characters we've come to know, love and bemuse at, this 3D arcade adventure game is winging its way toward you soon.
{TAGLINE} {ATTEMPT AT HUMOR} {THIS GAME IS QUAKE}
Recall, an advertisement for a videogame can be parsed with the following grammar:
where
ADVERT:
| PLUGS JOKES THIS_GAME_IS_QUAKE
PLUGS:
| PLUG PLUGS
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JOKES:
| ATTEMPT_AT_HUMOR JOKES
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PLUG:
| TAGLINE PLUG
| a statement that a game is to be made.
ATTEMPT_AT_HUMOR:
| TAGLINE ATTEMPT_AT_HUMOR
| something which is uniquely characterised as not funny.
TAGLINE:
| a cultural reference.
THIS_GAME_IS_QUAKE:
| any sentence containing the words "adventure" and "3D."
Next week we'll learn how to parse slashdot comments, a preview -
{INACCURACIES | BAD_JOKES}* {IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER} {TOPIC}
Imagine a beowulf cluster of... er.... videogames.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Actually if done right as a MMORPH, it proly would be really fun..
"What do you do with the mad that you feel when you feel so mad you could bite?" - Mister Rogers
But will Zoidberg be as lovably hatable in the game?
;)
Hopefully he will serve some sort of purpose where he says annoying things, you smack him around, and then people cheer.
That would be pretty close to the show.
"PC Load Letter? What the $@#% does that mean?!"
- a Fry timeline would be fun
:)
- centerfolds; one of Leela, one of Zoidberg
- Good soundbites from the show
- Digs at Fox for letting go the best thing they had going
- What else?
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Matt Groening recently announced the latest creation in a series of video games based on his Fox TV shows. "Futurama", based on the TV show of the same name, is his first non-Simpsons forray into the realm of video game spin-offs. "The potential for this game is amazing," said Mr. Groening. "We made a killing with the Simpsons games despite a complete lack of creative effort. One can only imagine how successful a game based on a show that's actually been cancelled will be." Stan Skinner, owner of TheStupid.com, concurred, adding "TheStupid will snap this game off the shelves. Everyone knows that the writers save the best jokes for the video game spinoffs, making purchasing this game an absolute necessity for the Futurama fan." "I'm just so happy that Matt has been so generous," exlaimed Judy Thomas. "There arn't many in the television industry who would so readily leap at the chance to sell old material in a new media format."
paintball
From my experience with Matt Groening spawned games, they all end up being really bad. The only good ones were "Bart VS The Space Mutants" and "Simpson's Bowling". It's too bad they get a competent team together and produce a great game. Simpsons with the right team of people could make a phenolemal game.
Cross your fingers for next one guys.
Just my 2 cents.
I would create a sig, if only something of value could be said with just 120 chars.
Talk about a killer app!
It's Shinney Metal Ass! Do you want to get sued, boy?:)
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
just casue i've never been able to figure it out, what is a beowulf?
on another note, I wonder if this will have the notority of other simpsons games. I just cant remember what they are called.
Theonlyuse of monkeys is to testthings onthem.Some peoplemay say"Hey That'scruel!"and myresponse is"I don't like monkeys
sounds like a nice place to work: "UDS is an interactive entertainment developer based in Norrköping and Gothenburg, Sweden. The company was founded in 1993, with an idea of using highly skilled and motivated programmers and artists to make top-notch computer games for Windows and the console market. Today we are 75 full-time employees, all of which are among the best in their respective fields. Almost everyone at UDS has a background on the Scandinavian demo scene. Trust is a keyword here at UDS. We fully trust our employees in terms of both loyalty and competence, and we do everything in our power to make our employees trust us. Furthermore, we have always given our employees lots of individual freedom, combined with a great deal of responsibility. We believe this is the best way to ensure creativity and commitment."
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Maybe this will be as difficult as all those simpsons NES games. They were almost as hard as super star wars.
What are you saying? Super Star Wars was a great game. If only they'd make it into a movie...
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
IMHO the simpsons games (I love the show) SUCKED so i'm imagining that the Futurama (good show) Game(s) will SUCK also.
Ave Molech Setting
Dear What-if machine,
What if life was more like a video game?
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin
The Hypnotoad commands you to buy the video game.
Hmmm, there have been plenty of turkeys but at least a couple of the games based upon the Star Trek universe have been decent.
Elsewhere, you could make a case for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game or two and, for our younger brothers and sisters, various Barney, etc games were probably hours of fun.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
To make the Futurama game experience as much like the TV show as possible, the game checks the date and time when it is launched. If the game is launched on Sunday evenings between late September and January, it starts in the middle.
~Philly
Beowulf, a fictional Scandanavian warrior from the sixth century, is the subject of the oldest known english epic poem. Read it here . Naturally (?), geeks working on clustering computers together to combine their number crunching power decided to name their work after it. I think this may have to do with Beowulf having the combined strength of 50 men.
I don't understand how you could have trouble figuring this out. The FIRST link that came up when I did a search for Beowulf on google explaned what beowulf means in a clustering context. Elsewhere on the FIRST page there was a link to the translation I linked above. Learn to use google.
Futurama: "Wow, I'm watching a really great show."
Virtual Futurama: "Wow, I could almost swear I was watching Futurama."
Virtual Virtual Futurama: "Wow, I could almost swear I was watching Virtual Futurama."
What the hell are you smoking? Futurama sucks. Everyone knows Futurama sucks. No one would argue that it's his greatest creation. Not even you. Come on now...
That game kicked ass! Just thinking of it brings up those warm, fuzzy memories. Time to pull out my SNES...
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#nohup cat
I've invented a new machine that will transform our lives into a video game!
Fry: Yes! I've always wanted to see an animated version of myself!
Bender: Oh great. Now I have to deal with the real you AND the virtual you.
Leela: I want to axe you, will this have stereoscopic goggle support?
Professor: Heavens no, I'm not a MIRACLE worker.
Leela: Oh good.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
you can't keep alive what most of the TV
audience as REJECTED.
I was always wondering why they cancelled the best sci-fi show on TV. It was the ONLY realistic portrayal of the hellhole that will be future "earth". Anyhoo, I saw firefly and realised that they had absolute no idea for a show... so they ripper Futurama right off. I mean, kick ass chick (leela), cranky tough guy (bender) and existential hero (fry). So, rather than compete against themselves, and lose, they canned the originator of the genre, not the rendition. Could you just imagine the Futurama parodies that would be of that show? Classic!
Look for it on the next episode.
( ) Simpson's Road Rage(at least it had some sound clips
( ) X-Files game
( ) Star Trek
...
For that matter, what about video games becoming TV series?
If I was that drunk, I would have remembered it -- H. Simpson
Amy has the Asian thing going, much better.
...but it was smacked down so hard by Fox's lawyers that they've basically rewritten history and you can barely find any trace of its existance on the web. I know an Atari 2600 hack of Oink with Futurama characters is a violation of copyright, but I don't have to like the way Fox behaved. I don't know that I'll bother with an official game after that.
I heard about this computer internet worm called slashdot the other day, so I decided to visit their web site... I think it is terrible that someone can put up a proposed victim in a place such as this and you all go and beat it up with such verocious force.
Even worse, you all then come back here to glee and rejoice your kills.
SATAN! SATAN!
(too bad Slash is stripping sarcasm tags)
<sarcasm> Boy, I'm glad you understand how HTML works. </sarcasm >
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Though there's hardly any information listed about the game, it made me think of that old Sierra game "SpaceQuest".
It was a graphical adventure game, where you walked around the screen and typed in commands, often having to interact with the environment in real-time.
(I remember a particularly hard part with a spider, a rock, and an exploding aerosol can or something like that).
Well, here's to old times spent in front of well-made creative games. Maybe we'll get a good one out of this!
Hey, I'm a white man but I would be all up in that bitch in no time! Little John Thomas knows no race when it comes to big tittes.
I didn't know this show made it past the first season. I'd rather see a PC version of My Dinner with Andre.
Sleep is for the Weak
does the list of completed games these lads have made not really inspire a lot of confidence? Airfix Dogfighter anyone? Hot Wheels Micro-Racers? Great TV show ... s*itball game. Sadly.
if moderators would open their eyes they'd see I was responding to the post above mine, not the original topic.
You're not supposed to respond to the post above yours unless you can tie it to the original topic. (Too bad I can't provide an analogy from Futurama because I'm not a Futurama fan; I have watched a total of oh, about three episodes.)
Will I retire or break 10K?
except one thing - the lack of it being for pc.
I saw PS2, GCN, Xbox. So in a way it's on PC. And if they do decide to make a game for the Game Boy Advance, it'll be a drastically different design (due to the GBA's hardware support for 2d but only software support for 3d), but it'll at least be playable on PC with a cart reader and VisualBoyAdvance.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Episode "A Bicyclops Built for Two" (S02E13)
Hermes: Get ready for fun Fry, now a days we have a type of game entirely played on video.
Leela: We call it a video-game.
Fry: A video game you say. Well golly gee, you mighty space men of the future will have to show me how it works.
The odd thing is - if you search for "Monkey Fracas", you'll actually find a version of it out there created by some fan with too much time on his hands.
Some of the other games from the show have been created in a similar fashion.
I used to think those guys from the Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie episode of the Simpsons ("magic xylophone") were just an exaggeration - nope!
The note is tagged with a copyright notice from 2001, "©2001 UDS", whereas the rest of the page is "Copyright © 2002 Unique Development Studios".
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Your mileage may vary, but this tells me that a) it isn't a very new announcement, and b) it has probably since been cancelled since we would have heard a lot more by now if it had been in development for over a year.
So: no new futurama toons on fox=no new futurama gam. Sorry
Penhead
If Groening swings this right, we might have another quality old-school games we all remember from the old days...
Ahh, remember Day of the Tentacle?
"Yes, let's all discuss your promiscuous mother later..." -The Professor
All your homo homies are doing it.
...and Fox cans it. 'Nuff said!
Political correctness is the newest form of slavery.
"Platform(s): Xbox, PS2, Gamecube"
Err, has no-one else noticed that this game won't be available on PC? It's really narked me off anyway, i've never owned a console and i never want to.
Everything sucks except musicandstuff
"It could be that Walter's horse has wings" does not imply that there is
any such animal as Walter's horse, only that there could be; but "Walter's
horse is a thing which could have wings" does imply Walter's horse's
existence. But the conjunction "Walter's horse exists, and it could be
that Walter's horse has wings" still does not imply "Walter's horse is a
thing that could have wings", for perhaps it can only be that Walter's
horse has wings by Walter having a different horse. Nor does "Walter's
horse is a thing which could have wings" conversely imply "It could be that
Walter's horse has wings"; for it might be that Walter's horse could only
have wings by not being Walter's horse.
I would deny, though, that the formula [Necessarily if some x has property P
then some x has property P] expresses a logical law, since P(x) could stand
for, let us say "x is a better logician than I am", and the statement "It is
necessary that if someone is a better logician than I am then someone is a
better logician than I am" is false because there need not have been any me.
-- A.N. Prior, "Time and Modality"
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