Well, would ya look at that - one of the first designs I voted for. Happy to see this printed!
Edit: I spoke too soon (specifically, before reading the writeup and looking at who the artist was!) A) Of course it’s by walmazan, creator of many of my favorites- no wonder I loved it at first sight. B) Seriously, Telltale! Grim Fandango remains my favorite game of all time (though I’m hoping Broken Age will rekindle some of that nostalgia), and I would happily through many stacks of my hard-earned cash at my monitor if they chose to raise Manny from his doubly-metaphoric grave.
You have good taste shirtwoot voters. This is a lush + colorful design overflowing with a grim cheer I associate with walmazan’s Día de Muertos influenced designs.
Thirded on the Tell-Tale/Grim Fandango idea. I would throw money ALL over that. And hey, Woot could do the tie-in merch, they’ve got a good artist or two working for them.
amazing writeup. i replayed GF last fall, holds up insanely well. have companeros as my ringtone. though with disney owning/shutting down lucasarts as a game studio, might be tough sledding to free GF from their grasp. better off setting your sights on the double fine adventure (Broken Age). apparently after inflation it’s about the same budget as tim schafer had for grim. you might say my expectations are high
The rights issues with Grim Fandango (IP was owned by LucasArts, which was closed by Disney, who likely don’t see much potential for profit with the company’s old games) make it significantly unlikely we’ll see a reissue of the game anytime soon, let alone a sequel.
Which sucks, because there are thousands of gamers out there who want to play it. On GOG.com, where they have a community-voting wishlist for games, over 35,000 people have voted for the site to get the rights to sell the original game; it’s the highest game on the list that they haven’t gotten yet.
I too would love if TellTale revitalized Grim Fandango, though considering it’s poor sales originally, I doubt it would get the kickstart support it needs.
soon they will need to open a new page called walmazan.woot
utterly love the colours. also was a big fan of Grim Fandango but was denied finishing it
cant wait for broken age. high five to all adventure backers here