Telltale Bags $6 Million in Funding

Telltale Games, makers of the recent Sam and Max episodic series of adventure games, has announced that they've gotten ahold of $6 million in funding. GamesIndustry.biz references the press release, which states that a San Francisco-based venture capitalist firm took the plunge ... apparently based on the power of the digital distribution methodology. Telltale's CEO and co-founder Dan Connors said, "This funding will allow us to stay on the cutting edge of innovation by building out our team and our tools, and by taking on new licenses for the episodic treatment ... Telltale has it all-a great group of people who are changing an industry while doing what they love," said Granite Ventures managing director Chris Hollenback, who has now joined Telltale's board of directors." Considering that a year ago no one was sure if the Sam and Max games would work in this format, I think this is telling about the future of games and digital distribution.

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Re:Excellent!

[Aladrin]

I think Telltale did an excellent job of capturing the feel of the original Sam & Max, as well as the cartoons. (Which were a little different from each other, even so.)

My only complaint is that by the third game, I already felt like it was the same game all over again... And by the 6th... Well, there's a place for consistancy, but the plot of 6 episodes is not that place.

For those who haven't played it, allow me to ruin the plot of all 6 episodes:

Find out something odd is happening.
Find out you need (obscene amount of money) to buy a home-made gadget from the store.
Get around some obstacles with items you pick up.
Earn obscene amount of money in a dumb way.
Buy item.
Use item to advance plot.
Get around more obstacles.

That's it. The details differ a -little- in each episode, and the scenery and dialogue (firefox says that's spelled wrong. Bad firefox!) vary wildly, but I got sick of the 'plot' real quick.

It's like Scooby Doo. Every single episode had the same plot, but just the details differed.