New ZAMN Comic

September 15th, 2006 by scummbuddy | Posted in Zombies Ate My Neighbors | 1 Comment »

I apologize for the long break between updates. I have been hard at work at giving this site a redesign, but things haven’t been working as I wanted them to. I still have more work to do, so I will continue to update this news page until I can get things resolved. I probably won’t be updating sub-pages, such as the fan art comics page with updates with news of new comics, for instance, these:

ZAMN fan, Rolo, was very kind to ManiacZombies by submitting the first of what we hope to be many ZAMN comics in a new art style. Please do enjoy and feel free to leave any comments to show the love.

As for news on the other ZAMN comic, I haven’t gotten an update recently, so to keep with the news updates I will make the translations on the last set of pages I currently have and hopefully we’ll have more comics before we know it.

I have acquired more fan art that is ZAMN related, but I feel that it will have to wait until the site re-design is in affect. So, it will be the possible, and hopeful, next update.

With the recent game “Dead Rising” currently gaining so much popularity in the gaming world, IGN has prepared a Top 10 list of Best Zombie games which remind us of the reason we play zombies games, and our beloved Zombies Ate My Neighbors made the list, which it truly deserves. There was some fighting as to how a game that was just released could hit number one, but then again, it’s not the “Best Zombie game of all time!” list, but a list that reminds us of what Zombies games are made for and why we play them.

10. Hunter: The Reckoning
9. Stubbs the Zombie
8. Alone in the Dark
7. House of the Dead 4
6. They Hunger
5. Typing of the Dead
4. Zombies Ate My Neighbors
3. Doom
2. Resident Evil 2
1. Dead Rising

And I believe I may have forgotten before to mention a future zombie-killing game that is upcoming for the XBOX 360. Monster Madness. It may not be the ZAMN game that we want to come out for XBox Live Arcade, but it will be a game release that plays in many of the same ways that worked for ZAMN, so long ago. Only this time, it will be four-player.

Speaking of ZAMN on XBox Live Aracde, ZAMN was mentioned twice by listeners feedback to a question posed by the Xbox Magazine podcast, on what games you would like to see on XBox Live Aracde. Of the emails read, ZAMN was the only one to get more than one mention.

And don’t miss the DOTT news post below.

More 3D DOTT Renders

September 15th, 2006 by scummbuddy | Posted in Maniac Mansion | No Comments »

A 3D modeler, frankitu, created and displayed the mansion lobby and of several DOTT characters a couple months back. It sure looks pretty. The soft shading really works well.

DOTT Background Tutorial

August 5th, 2006 by scummbuddy | Posted in Maniac Mansion | No Comments »

Blatantly stolen again from MixnMojo.com

Here is a Norwegian DOTT fan, Dante, that shows the step-by-step process to creating your own DOTT-inspired background, err, I mean wall mural. Enough with the “funny”. Here are the awe-inspiring pictures.

Here is the link to see the whole thing in action. Apparently he is a reporter for a well-respected Norwegian newspaper and updates his blog with images of his other designed house-hold objects. He also is a Monkey Island fan, so now that the adventure fans of the world are growing up and getting jobs we can get more adventure-game related news and artwork. Hooray!

An update to the page makes mention that Dave Grossman and other DOTT creators may have seen the page, and if so I would really like to hear their impressions of it. I’m sure it would be nice compliments. If it were LucasArts, they would claim ownership of the wall.

Update* Here’s a comment from Dave Grossman:
Hey, that looks great!
When I was a teenager I used to paint comic book characters on my wall using a similar method.
I can’t wait to see what you do with the other three walls and the ceiling.

Someone at Telltale Games sent me a link to the DOTT wall, which I thought was pretty cool. I attempted to comment (and did so twice because the alert message that popped up was in Norwegian so I had no idea what it said!). I think one of the best things about the Web is that if you put something like that up, the likelihood of the people who wrote the game getting wind of it is actually pretty high….

Anyway, keep up the good work.
-Dave

Maniac Mansion 3 to be made by TellTale?

July 25th, 2006 by scummbuddy | Posted in Maniac Mansion | No Comments »

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.