Maniac Mansion 3 to be made by TellTale?
Blatantly stolen from MixnMojo.com
Is TellTaleGames acquiring Day of the Tentacle to create their own sequels/spin-offs? Well, not just yet, but it’s possible. According to MixnMojo, who according to GameInformer, who according to Dan Conners himself suggests that there may have been talks in the past and continuing efforts being bade my TellTale to acquire the rights to license the old favorites from LucasArts and have them created and possibly distributed by TellTaleGames, and just have LucasArts be the one to bring the franchise.
GI: A lot of those LucasArts franchises are still very popular – you spoke about Day of the Tentacle. Is there a chance you’ll be able to wrangle a few more of those away for more episodes? Are you working on that at all?
Connors: It’s definitely on our minds and it’s definitely something we think about. Maybe I can give you more information a while from now. It’s definitely something that makes good sense to everybody. For them it’s the same thing. For them it’s “What’s the business model? What’s the retail model?” It’s not their type of game – it’s not Star Wars, it’s not with the movie, with the lightsaber – an action game. When trying to do the two things at the same time it makes it challenging. They’ve been trying to figure out the right solution, and hopefully Telltale is part of it.
To me this idea sounds just brilliant and hopefully TellTale still has some friends in high and mighty places over at LucasArts to sway the ideas in their favor, and well, in everyones favor.
And for anyone who is a fan of TellTale, the GameInformer article is quite a good read.