Season 2 DVD Audio Commentary Questions List
It just dawned on me that we could have a very nice potentially community-driving commentary for Season 2 on the DVD. Reason being is because I remember how the forums came up a number of times in the commentaries in one sense or another.
So, I think this thread should be a list of questions (relavent or not) involving Season 2. For practicality reasons, the questions asked my be directed to either the Designers, Sound Guys, or Production team a la last seasons commentaries. For now, it is just for Episode 201, but hopefully, as the episodes come out, this thread will grow with more questions with the vain hope they will be picked and answered on the commentary somewhere.
Who knows?! Maybe you're question will end up being answer and you could be immortalized forever on the DVD that comes with your Season 2 purchase form TTG!
Questions for the Design Team
What was your main reason behind redesigning the main street...
How many boxing levels were there when that mini-game was originally planed out?
Questions for the Production Team
Was it difficult to include keyboard commands for the mini-games that use them?
The lighting and even that single explosion at the beginning were all really well done! How big of a challenge was that compared to Season 1 which didn't have as much ambiant lighting or any explosions at all?
Question for the Sound Guys
What the hell is being said in the final puzzle's BGM?
So, I think this thread should be a list of questions (relavent or not) involving Season 2. For practicality reasons, the questions asked my be directed to either the Designers, Sound Guys, or Production team a la last seasons commentaries. For now, it is just for Episode 201, but hopefully, as the episodes come out, this thread will grow with more questions with the vain hope they will be picked and answered on the commentary somewhere.
Who knows?! Maybe you're question will end up being answer and you could be immortalized forever on the DVD that comes with your Season 2 purchase form TTG!
Questions for the Design Team
What was your main reason behind redesigning the main street...
besides the obvious want to use the Maimtron 9000 in a fun and chaotic puzzle
?How many boxing levels were there when that mini-game was originally planed out?
Questions for the Production Team
Was it difficult to include keyboard commands for the mini-games that use them?
The lighting and even that single explosion at the beginning were all really well done! How big of a challenge was that compared to Season 1 which didn't have as much ambiant lighting or any explosions at all?
Question for the Sound Guys
What the hell is being said in the final puzzle's BGM?
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I think even I can answer this one
Also, this thread is a great idea.
No one got sick of looking at the same Sesame Street.
The Brady Culture Chia pet grew rather fast in 201. I, and probably like many others, were expecting it to be one of those slow growth that would change from episode to episode. Is this one of those secret status bars that indicates how far you are in the plot of the episode by how much flora has grown on the clay statuette?
*can't wait to see how big the fro gets come 205*
And for the Designers:
How long did it take you guys to write the acronym for PARANOID?
This will probably be answered when the actual episode releases, but I'm curious as to how much of the character animations made it from the trailers into the game, particularly with Episode 202. And in a related "for fun" question, which animation did you guys do exclusively for the trailer for 202 that you wish was in the game?:D
I don't remember Sam crouching down during the Snow Devil description or the Soda Popers climbing a snow bank and then looking over it ever appearing in the episode.:p
Actually, to be honest, I just want to see a thread started here questioning if the VAtress who does Sybil is as hot as she sounds.:D
Didn't Jake post a link to her on IMDb? I think that had a picture of her on it.
I'll do a search.
Found it!
There is a blog post that has a video of Jared Emerson Johnson doing some of the sound work and they show David Nowlin doing some of his lines. I think it was from late spring/summer.
It was in the Interim Theatre, btw.
I swear it said Stinky... I even read it and thought "Stinky sounds hot?!".
I need sleep.
If it's any consolation, I did too
Exactly, but Kasten wasn't in it and I'm terribly curious to see his face. :cool:
And how does he really sound?
Oh yeah, and it would be great if you guys could animate Max pointing at his gun and singing "You can't touch this". And the MC Hammer moves...:cool:
I'm not sure if it happens in this episode, but you'll see it at some point.
I wasn't searching for that picture, just remembered I read the article way back and it just happened to have a picture.
(Almost convinced myself)
BTW, discarding the flies, Stinky looks and sounds hot.
Who had the honor of designing, rigging, and animating
For the Design Team
How difficult was it to design puzzles for this episode that were more or less designed to act as one giant puzzle with several obsticles to over-come?
How did you guys arrive at the Fountain of Youth puzzle and its level of semi-illogical complexity? Serious,
For the Sound Guys
Are the bagpipes live or synth? Just curious.
For the Design Team
There are a lot of lost items all over Easter Island, most of which are refferances to other games and popular lost items like the left socks. What were some of the items you wanted to sneak in to the environments but couldn't? What were the reasons they had to be taken out? (This question is probably best suited for Kim.)
Who defines if a joke or reference is to obscure? I think the "lost babies" in episode 202 was pretty hilarious, but I doubt if anyone knew all 5.
Just how many shirts does Kid Sam wear and how are they selected?
I'm willing to wait until the Audio Commentary to find out, but you guys are really starting to mess with my head with all the randomly appearing shirts.
Who did the German translation? And how much of it was purposily mistranslated?
For Jared
Happy you got to produce more techno for Sam & Max outside of the Embarrasing Idol theme from Season 1?
I'm not!
Sam: jmm, what the hell are you talking about?"
Well, I loved the cheesy translations, it added a lot of punch to the old-silent-movie part of the trailer.
As for the second part... meh, I'm not particularly fond of techno so...
From the look of the gameplay video, the big challenge this time around was rain and lightning effects. How difficult was it to impliment these, particularly the lightning since it affects environment lighting situations?
About the decals:
-Who is the mastermind behind the selection of objects you must shoot or run over to get the decals?
-Were some decals/upgrades planned but cut due to technical or time constraints?
-Will decals/upgrades carry over season 3 (and 4, and ...)?
We redesigned the street because we wanted to add Stinky's diner, but I was too lazy to walk all the way from there to Sybil's.
There were three levels in the boxing game when we originally planned it. We generally don't design more stuff than we have time to build. :-)
That was written by our talented contract writer Jeff Lester. You'll have to ask him! But he billed us for 800 hours, so that's 100 hours per letter.
Timmy is played by Joey Camen and in the spirit of authenticity, he actually says things extremely bleep-worthy. Something about a candiru fish...
The voice of Bosco is also Joey Camen. He has a MySpace page:
www.myspace.com/joeycamen
The design for Episode 202 wasn't particularly any more difficult than any other episode. It's easy for all the steps to be clear in our mind -- we already know what you have to do. The tricky bit is making sure you have clues that will point you in the right direction, without giving it away.
Massive spoilers for 202:
We brainstormed several possibilities, but we just chose objects that would easily evoke the feel of "missing" items and could be made in our timeframe. There were no detailed concept drawings done of those environments because Kim and Brian are very good at mocking things up in 3D, so we just thought of what objects we wanted right before they built them.
By the way, Sam & Max don't comment on the cloth on the ground near the SS Minnow life preserver, but it's supposed to be the shroud of Durante. Pretty obscure, huh?
No one defines if something is too obscure. It's okay if people don't get every joke, but we do try to make sure that no puzzle depends on you knowing obscure facts.
As for the lost babies, well the writers knew all five of them! But since it wasn't necessary to know who they were to get on with the game, we just wanted them to be entertaining.
-Coming up with the objects is a collaborative process, but the key people responsible for the driving in Season 2 are Brian Gillies (who creates the art) and John Drake (who programs the games).
-It's quite easy to think of possible decals and upgrades, but we only plan to do objects that can be made in our tight schedule. That said, John did some really cool stuff with the objects in Episode 203 to make them even more entertaining than I'd hoped.
-I sincerely doubt that we'll be able to carry over stuff into subsequent seasons. The DeSoto is just too crowded with junk!