If The People I Am Having Lunch With Say Anything Interesting, I Will Update This Post [Gdc]

Sitting at a long table. Finished my lunch. At this table are Dave Perry (Earthworm Jim), Kristian Segerstrale (Playfish), Rich Hilleman (Made the first Madden), Warren Spector (Epic Mickey), Mark Cerny ( Lots of stuff ). Post will be updated regularly. More

Disney Might’ve Put Epic Mickey on Natal

Epic Mickey (Wii) The company says that had Microsoft’s new tech been around three years ago, it’d have considered it for Epic Mickey.

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Upper-Crust Games Satire Features Glaring Continuity Error [Epic Mickey]

Disney’s forthcoming, darker reboot of Mickey Mouse caught the eye of the Shouts & Murmurs satire column in this week’s New Yorker, the second time in three months the highbrow mag has deigned to poke fun with a video-game purpose. Major continuity error though: “When Mickey is shown starving to death after the nuclear disaster, and he eats Porky Pig, we feel that Porky should still be alive when his feet are removed.” Slick, but I think Porky’s under contract to another studio. Modern Mickey [ The New Yorker , thanks John W. Image via The New Yorker]

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Upper-Crust Games Satire Features Glaring Continuity Error [Epic Mickey]

Upper-Crust Games Satire Features Glaring Continuity Error [Epic Mickey]

Disney’s forthcoming, darker reboot of Mickey Mouse caught the eye of the Shouts & Murmurs satire column in this week’s New Yorker, the second time in three months the highbrow mag has deigned to poke fun with a video-game purpose. Major continuity error though: “When Mickey is shown starving to death after the nuclear disaster, and he eats Porky Pig, we feel that Porky should still be alive when his feet are removed.” Slick, but I think Porky’s under contract to another studio. Modern Mickey [ The New Yorker , thanks John W. Image via The New Yorker]

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Upper-Crust Games Satire Features Glaring Continuity Error [Epic Mickey]

Disney Considering Movie, Comics for Epic Mickey [Wii]

No decisions have been made, but Disney Epic Mickey designer Warren Spector has his way we’ll be seeing a lot more than a game coming out of the concept behind the moralistic reimagining of Walt Disney’s most beloved character. “I’ve had some discussions with people and really, really want to see some comics and cartoons and feature animation built around this,” he Spector told Kotaku. “There have been discussions about all sorts of things talking about other possibilities around this project. “I really hope it’s going to happen and I’m going to keep beating on that drum.” In Disney Epic Mickey , due out next fall, players will take on the role of a Mickey Mouse thrust into a dystopic world of his own accidental creation called The Cartoon Waste Land. Once there he will use a paint brush and thinner, controlled by the Wii’s remote, to reshape the world while battling the animated creations inside. Spector told Kotaku that he isn’t worried about bringing the game only to the Wii, despite the relative failures other third-party developers have seen on the platform. “I think there is always a risk,” he said. “The nintendo games are fantastic and do extremely well and third-party don’t do quite as well. “We are putting a lot of muscle behind this. We have an advantage that no one has. You say Mickey and Disney and the whole world changes, everything changes. If anyone has a chance of really delivering something special on the Wii, Nintendo-level special, it’s us.” Spector says that he has every intention, Disney has every intention, of this game becoming an established and beloved franchise. “I certainly have big plans,” he said. “Have they been approved? No. But I have had a lot of discussions about what is going to happen next. In my mind it’s already a franchise.” Succeed or fail, Spector and his team aren’t holding anything back on this game. “I really can’t abide the thought that it will be OK or mediocre,” he said. “We are going after Mario and Zelda, Ratchet and Clank, we all aspire to that. “I don’t always succeed, but we’re always shooting for the moon,” he said. “I’m a man of many motos and one of them is fail gloriously.”

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Epic Mickey’s Animatronic Donald Gives Me The Creeps [News]

Game Informer’s keeping a steady stream of Epic Mickey articles coming between its November 2009 reveal issue and its online supplements. This article takes a look at character design and art. We’ve already been told that this Wii exclusive game will be all about Mickey painting in parts of his environment to get through levels (a la Okami, perhaps). But something I hadn’t heard until today was that how you problem-solve your way through the game directly affects how your Mickey looks. “How you decide to play the game should make a difference. You get to determine what kind of hero you are. Everybody solves the problem. Everybody saves the day. Everybody gets to save the world and gets the girl,” Warren Spector tells us, in regards to the shifting spectrum of play styles that change the appearance of Mickey throughout the game. “But how you do it, and how you end up looking is up to you. What abilities you have is up to you. Who likes you is up to you. What missions you hear about or not is up to you.” Each version of Mickey has a distinct look crafted by the character artists at Mickey, from the crouching and feral scrapper to the stalwart hero. Each of the Mickeys and all of their movements, though, are drawn directly from classic Mickey inspiration. Get a look at the render videos in Game Informer’s piece and see if you can recognize motions from old school Mickey Mouse cartoons, like The Brave Little Taylor. Inside the Game: Epic Mickey [Game Informer]

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Epic Mickey Wii Details Revealed: Oswald The Rabbit Returns!

A look at some of the earliest details from the new Epic Mickey game for the Wii. | Epic Mickey is set in a world where the old and forgotten Disney creations are cast into a dark wold of “broken machines and bitter personalities”. This world is under the control of Oswald the Rabbit (first appearance 1927), Walt Disney’s first character.

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Epic Mickey Revealed, Warren Spector Speaks [Game Announce]

It should come as little surprise that Warren Spector and his Junction Point development studio have been working on Epic Mickey , a game half-revealed by rumor , concept art and sparse details . But now it’s official. Disney’s Epic Mickey is also the subject of the latest issue of GameInformer magazine , which should appear in subscribers’ mailboxes starting next week. The Wii game , said to be a Mickey Mouse platformer that involves the painting and erasing of levels, a struggle by Disney’s lower caste of characters to dethrone the mouse. Based on the cover art from the latest GI, it looks that, if anything, Spector and crew have managed to create something visually intriguing, with the rumored gameplay mechanics only slightly less interesting. GI also has a video interview with Spector up, in which he talks about his love for things Mickey Mouse. It’s light on actual Epic Mickey game details, but heavy on Spector face time. Warren Spector & Mickey Mouse [GameInformer]

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Disney Readies Epic Mickey Announcement

Epic Mickey [working title] (tba) The lid will finally be popped off this mysterious project next month.

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