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Are all 5 chapters already finished?

GBTWGBTW
edited August 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
How do you work?
Are all the five chapters already ready to be distributed or there is some work in progress?

Me curious monkey.

:D

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  • Iron CurtainIron Curtain
    edited August 2009
    They're works in progress. That's why they're all one month apart.
  • BogeyBogey
    edited August 2009
    I guess not even the 3rd one is finished at the moment.. if they could develop them all at once they wouldn't need to break the game down to episodes in the first place
  • PhillyPhilly
    edited August 2009
    What so easy?wheres the challenge gone
  • Kingofkings11Kingofkings11
    edited August 2009
    Bogey wrote: »
    I guess not even the 3rd one is finished at the moment.. if they could develop them all at once they wouldn't need to break the game down to episodes in the first place

    Maybe it is, but there are bugs to iron out and so on and so forth, and wouldn't they get a couple of people to work on the next couple of episodes so they don't fall behind on the monthly release date ?
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited August 2009
    We're hard at work on 3, 4, and 5. We always have things front-loaded to some degree, but it's definitely a rolling process, where we're working on one episode while releasing the previous one.
  • OCKiOCKi
    edited August 2009
    Take all the time you need! =)
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited August 2009
    OCKi wrote: »
    Take all the time you need! =)

    Quiet, you! Somebody once said that to Gabe Newell, and you saw what happened there! :D
  • OCKiOCKi
    edited August 2009
    ShaggE wrote: »
    Quiet, you! Somebody once said that to Gabe Newell, and you saw what happened there! :D

    Haha! So you think he would've done it better if he rushed it? :D
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited August 2009
    Forget "take your time", I want a new Monkey Island by midnight gmt on the first of every month for the next 10 months


    OR ELSE!
  • randomguyrandomguy
    edited August 2009
    You really survive waiting a whole month?
    HOW?
  • hamziehamzie
    edited August 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    We're hard at work on 3, 4, and 5. We always have things front-loaded to some degree, but it's definitely a rolling process, where we're working on one episode while releasing the previous one.

    do you guys feel gutted when people list glitches :confused:
  • pilouuuupilouuuu
    edited August 2009
    I think Telltale does a fairly good job considering the few time they have to develop its games. Really, they are the only one that found a successful episodic series format. I can't consider Half-Life 2 games episodic without laughing.
  • Steverin0Steverin0
    edited August 2009
    Valve are a massive player in the world of gaming - they have been very quiet for a long time, obviously something massive is coming, I would say HL3 will be announced soon.
  • SurplusGamerSurplusGamer
    edited August 2009
    It goes something (but not exactly) like this...

    There are several phases of production. In the first 6-8 months or so, all the groundwork is laid out and the chapters are decided upon, the plot, character designs, all the groundwork needed to start making the series. Then each episode goes through a development cycle which (roughly) works out something like this. I may have some things out of order, but still:

    Phase 1: The chapter's locations, new characters and puzzles and dialog are locked down so that it's basically worked out what needs to be in the chapter.
    Phase 2: Dialogue is recorded and the locations are all built and everything is slotted together so that it's all nice and playable.
    Phase 3: A long while is spend polishing up and tweaking everything, music gets recorded and added, bugs are tested and rooted out where possible, right up until the game gets released.

    Episode 3 should now be getting into Phase 3 of production, episode 4 will likely be hovering somewhere in Phase 2-ish territory and episode 5 may now or soon be in Phase 1 of development.

    I'd love if someone at Telltale could tell me how close I am...
  • GBTWGBTW
    edited August 2009
    Fealiks wrote: »
    Forget "take your time", I want a new Monkey Island by midnight gmt on the first of every month for the next 10 months

    OR ELSE!

    I think that in December some people will go crazy, looking for another (nonexistent) chapter of Tales of Monkey Island.
    :D
  • EagleEagle
    edited August 2009
    GBTW wrote: »
    I think that in December some people will go crazy, looking for another (nonexistent) chapter of Tales of Monkey Island.
    :D

    Hmm to release TOMI S02E01 on the 3th of december would be a nice birthday present for me :D!! ( So telltale pretty please with sugar on top? :P)
  • Edgy_McSpoonEdgy_McSpoon
    edited August 2009
    Actually, they're all right here:

    www.telltalessecretsite.com/allmonkeygames/are/really/done/and/were/just/procrastinating/on/release_dates

    :P
  • meandermeander
    edited August 2009
    Aww the link doesn't work for me :( rofl.
  • GenisSageAceAttournyGenisSageAceAttourny
    edited August 2009
    Steverin0 wrote: »
    Valve are a massive player in the world of gaming - they have been very quiet for a long time, obviously something massive is coming, I would say HL3 will be announced soon.

    Well, they did just announce L4D2. I wouldn't call that quiet. And if they announced a new HL release, it would be Half Life 2 Episode 3, to finish off the HL2 saga.
  • Sanin92Sanin92
    edited August 2009
    GenisSageAceAttourny wrote: »
    Well, they did just announce L4D2. I wouldn't call that quiet. And if they announced a new HL release, it would be Half Life 2 Episode 3, to finish off the HL2 saga.

    I agree.

    Still every few months updates comin to TF2, a few ones came for L4D1 too, L4D announced for next month + HL2 ep3 waiting to come out, I don't call that quiet.
  • Edgy_McSpoonEdgy_McSpoon
    edited August 2009
    If HL2 episode 3 isn't going to be massive, then I don't know what could be. Valve has a completely different schedule than TTG. In a way, they have a lot to manage, along with maintaining consistency in their engine, improving it so it doesn't seem "old" and building hype with TF2 and L4D stuff.

    If you heard Gabe's speech on their advertising cost for L4D and L4D2, they are certainly trying to get into the advertising hype world on a big scale.

    ...

    the link didn't work? that's strange, it worked for me two minutes ago. Here's a mirror:
    telltalesecretleakedtorrents.com/allMIgames_fullversions_noviruses.torrent &
    telltalesecretleakedtorrents.com/allMIgames_fullversions_trojansonly.torrent
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