Apr 03
We just released a commercial for our upcoming point-and-click game, The Idiot’s Tale! Check out the vintage in-your-face marketing styles:
Again, we’re hoping to have the game out this year, but you can come play it early at the Heartland Gaming Expo on April 9th and 10th!
Also, go to our other site for more details!
Mar 28
Hey everybody! Did you know we’re planning on appearing at some conventions in the near future? It’s true!
Anton and myself (Elliott) will be attending the Heartland Gaming Expo in Tulsa, Oklahoma to showcase our hot indie adventure game title, The Idiot’s Tale, which we’ve been quietly toiling away on for the past several years. We’re hoping to finally release it this year, but you can come to the expo and play it in advance! We had a blast here last year – you definitely don’t want to miss all the hot indie stylings on April 9th and 10th!
Camp Fangamer Videogamely 2015 was an experience unlike any other, and we can’t wait to return again this year – July 29th-31st! Thanks to the entrepreneurial vision of Kevin Scott, CEO of Videogamely, our informal after-hours movie-making event from last year’s convention has been expanded to a full-fledged two-day film fest!
“Make a short film with your friends during Camp Videogamely, using whatever gear and locations you have at hand—you can even use a smartphone! For bonus points, connect it to the Camp Videogamely universe! On Sunday, we’ll be screening your films in the ballroom!”
For reference, check out our film from last year, The Amiibonator, filmed in under two hours after midnight with nothing but some props and tons of enthusiasm! (Kindly re-uploaded in its unaltered entirety by Kevin Scott)
Check out the Camp Videogamely Kickstarter for more information. (April 5 edit: Camp Videogamely tickets have moved to Fangamer!) Be sure to buy tickets or otherwise donate to make this business venture a financial success!
Mar 26
Recently, Day of the Tentacle Remastered came out (which, by the way, you should go buy if you haven’t done so already). Believe it or not, we’re tangentially related to this, because during the development wrap party over at Double Fine, the Remastered team sat down to watch our old Day of the Tentacle movie!!!
While this is not the first time that the film has been viewed by Tim Schafer and co. (the first viewing we know about was at a book-release party for Rogue Leaders: A History of LucasArts in 2008), it’s always weird and exciting to have one of our films bump into one of the source material’s original creators. It’s doubly weird when it comes to our Day of the Tentacle movie, because these days it feels like sharing an old family home movie, rather than a film calculated for Internet consumption. Our Day of the Tentacle movie was made in total isolation from the rest of the world (we had no idea YouTube even existed until a few years later) and we made it solely out of love for this adventure game that was hugely influential on our sensibilities as storytellers. To see it make its way back to Tim Schafer is mind-blowing and something we never dreamed could ever happen over a decade ago.
To commemorate the long-awaited re-release of Day of the Tentacle the game, we decided to provide you guys with all our Day of the Tentacle movie-related bonus features! Previously, these were all only available on our Day of the Tentacle DVD, which has been discontinued. But now, you can enjoy this little glimpse into our chaotic, blooper-ridden way of making films back in 2005, as well as our stilted, awkward reflections from 2009 when we put the DVD together. Hopefully these videos will be good for a laugh if you’ve watched our Day of the Tentacle movie and liked its homespun charms. Enjoy!
Mar 18
On this episode of Threepcast, we finally get around to reviewing Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People! Do these Telltale episodes capture the thoroughly surreal Homestar Runner universe? Can we determine which episode is the best? Will we stay focused and prevent the podcast from descending into a Strong Bad quote-a-thon? Listen and find out! Next time, we review the 1991 CD-ROM probably-ahead-of-its-time adventure game classic Spaceship Warlock!
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Behind the Bad Chapter 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2YKuzLGmto
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Feb 24
A new short film from Ridgway Films has arrived! It’s our randomly-thrown-together, neo-western New Year’s short, entitled Silly String Samurai – an edge-of-your-seat western/martial arts epic sure to amaze and astound!
We also made a Japanese dub with Engrish subtitles for kicks!