Gap
OK, I gotta know.
Is there a particular reason you're delaying episode 202 until January?
It makes a lot of sense from a marketing perspective, because it means ISS is the most recent throughout the whole Christmas season.
But you're about to hold playtesting sessions for the THIRD episode. Which means it's playable, in some form. Which likely means episode 2 was playable some time ago.
Is Episode 202 done, and being delayed for business reasons? Or am I really really confused?
Is there a particular reason you're delaying episode 202 until January?
It makes a lot of sense from a marketing perspective, because it means ISS is the most recent throughout the whole Christmas season.
But you're about to hold playtesting sessions for the THIRD episode. Which means it's playable, in some form. Which likely means episode 2 was playable some time ago.
Is Episode 202 done, and being delayed for business reasons? Or am I really really confused?
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But I don't remember you having playtests of The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball during the dead month between Culture Shock and Situation: Comedy.
Did you, and I'm just forgetful?
Or am I right, and you're delaying it for business reasons. Because as I said, it makes a boatload of sense from that perspective. I just wanted to know if it was, in addition, not done.
The gap happens because Christmastime is insane -- it is a true devourer of new game releases whose names don't start (or end) with "Halo" -- and it's nice to have two months instead of one right at the start, to have twice as much time before the next release, to get everybody on board and set up for the season, before we start pouring out episodes. This year it's especially nice since the first episode is a Christmas episode, but yeah, having two months at the start to skip Christmas and to have a slightly longer lead time right out of the gate for people to get on board has always been part of the schedule for both Season One and Season Two, regardless of how the internal game production schedule is set up.
We didn't actually have a playtest for The Mole, The Mob, and The Meatball, but if we had it probably would have been at roughly the same time. I think we're a little farther ahead of schedule with Season Two, mainly because we knew what we were getting into and were able to plan better.
I forgot about the machinimas :O Any chance those'll come back?
The gap between 1 and 2 was also a period of less extreme foruming last year as well... people dont remember super well since it was a year ago. Also I'm sure that yes, the machinimas did help a bit, but I believe we only really had three of those in the gap between 101 and 102 last year. I think more than anything last year people were still coasting off the high of getting any new Sam & Max after 13 years.
anyway, I like to think of it more positively. I'd hate for my favorite grass-roots game company to have to work slavishly through the holiday season. That vacation time is well-deserved (you can admit it, everybody wants at least a few days off to go see friends and family!).
That was unfortunate, but as has been said, the 2 months between the premiere and the bulk of the season were planned both times, so the voice actor medical issue from last year really had no bearing.
We're supposed to get vacation time?
I hear the FBI have developed a new interrogation technique. It's apparently 25% more effective than Chinese water torture. Lock suspect in small closet(preferably one belonging to a Brendan q. Ferguson)Then promise them that they will be only let out once they have written 10, 000 lines of hilarious dialogue...