Telltale expanding, moving to new offices, hints at future

edited November 2012 in General Chat
Telltale has been doing well lately, and they're moving so they can keep expanding! It's all here: http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/64865/telltale-games-plans-major-expansion/

Get ready for a weird thing though:
Another major project in production for 2013 is Poker Night at the Inventory, developed in partnership with Warner Bros.

Looks like the writer of the article got a little confused. Maybe we're going to get both a Poker Night sequel and something related to Warner Bros? Seems too weird otherwise.

Or Batman is going to play poker with Bilbo Baggins, Scooby Doo and Alan Garner.

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  • edited November 2012
    There might be a very small chance that a poker night sequel would feature Sam and/or Max so this is best business decision telltale games has ever made
  • edited November 2012
    I'd love another Poker Night, and I'm curious to see what they'd be working on with Warner Bros. If anyone working on a potential sequel is reading this, please create multiplayer where you versus your friends and gamble items in your Steam inventory. Unless there are some sortive legal issues with that...
  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited November 2012
    Telltale partnered with Warner Bros. for Fables (since it's published by a DC Comics imprint, and DC Comics is owned by Warner Bros.), so if it is indeed a Poker Night sequel, that could be the potential reason for the Warner Bros. license.

    Either that or the writer just accidentally put in Poker Night at the Inventory, when he meant Fables. Which is more likely.
  • edited November 2012
    So Batman could be in Poker Night?
  • edited November 2012
    coolsome wrote: »
    So Batman could be in Poker Night?

    Or, more likely, a Fables character could be in Poker Night.
  • edited November 2012
    Or Bugs Bunny.
  • edited November 2012
    Batman playing poker...
    motivator8518908.jpg

    Seems legit.
  • edited November 2012
    Man, I'd hate to play with Etrigan. He'd have to come up with some sort of ten line verse every time he wanted to raise.
  • edited November 2012
    I just want another Sam & Max, goddamnit.
  • edited November 2012
    Jennifer wrote: »
    Telltale partnered with Warner Bros. for Fables (since it's published by a DC Comics imprint, and DC Comics is owned by Warner Bros.

    Ah, yes, didn't realise that Fables is Warner Bros as well. That's obviously it. I hope they're developing a Poker Night sequel as well, I can go for some light-hearted Telltale jokes.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited November 2012
    Currently in production is the second season of the The Walking Dead game,

    I do hope the article is wrong about a lot of things.
    Tjibbbe wrote: »
    Ah, yes, didn't realise that Fables is Warner Bros as well. That's obviously it. I hope they're developing a Poker Night sequel as well, I can go for some light-hearted Telltale jokes.

    Well, they do state the Warner Brothers thing loud and clear. ;)

    I hope it's not a "Poker Night" sequel - but indeed a continuation of the original plan: an "at the inventory" sequel!
  • edited November 2012
    I do hope the article is wrong about a lot of things.

    I assume by this point Telltale has a 'Walking Dead Team' that'll keep that series in production while other teams work on other games. Especially likely if they're expanding
  • edited November 2012
    From some of the interviews I've watched, it sounds like they have at least two development teams going at once. I imagine one of them must be pretty deep into Fables by now.
  • edited November 2012
    A Poker Night sequel? You have no idea how happy that makes me.
  • edited November 2012
    Please at least give us Sam & Max season 4 before TWD Season 2!
  • edited November 2012
    A Poker Night sequel? You have no idea how happy that makes me.

    Me too! I've been wanting this for years! I still play the original all the time.
  • edited November 2012
    Please at least give us Sam & Max season 4 before TWD Season 2!
    Or their two other games Fables and King's Quest. Let's get those out of the way before either.
  • edited November 2012
    Am I selfish for not caring about Fables or King's Quest and just want my second season of Back to the Future?
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited November 2012
    Am I selfish for not caring about Fables or King's Quest and just want my second season of Back to the Future?

    Yes. No. Maybe. Back to the Future was a change in TTGs gaming philosophy that came as quite the shock for some fans of the company. It wasn't until TWD that some of them were won back - while significant community resources still only lurk in general chat, waiting for any remotely Purcell related franchises and cursing every announced game that's not...

    Still, I'm sure you'll get what you're waiting for eventually, and SOMEHOW I feel as if this could be 2013 as well... if Christopher Lloyd's blabbermouth is to be trusted...
  • edited November 2012
    Well, I never played any of the old LucasArts adventure games, so to be honest, franchises like Monkey Island and Sam & Max don't mean all that much to me. I found out about this company because of Back to the Future, and as much as people complained about it, I was happy to have a good Back to the Future game(that wasn't a GTA mod) to wash out the taste of the old NES titles. Jurassic Park had a good story and graphical presentation, though the QTEs were a bit...much, especially on an older computer like me, they sometimes glitched. Now, from what I've seen by following playthroughs, The Walking Dead is pretty good. I hope they continue to do well.
  • edited November 2012
    BTTF could be good if there will be REAL management of time. Now, with TT engine capable of taking different branches of stories, a sequel could be a better game than the first one.

    BTW, I hope new offices and new employees means also a step in tech quality (performance, animations, refinement) instead of just more projects in the pipeline.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited November 2012
    I'd disagree.. but I'd be off topic. ;)
  • edited November 2012
    Well, the topic does say "hints at future" in it! :rolleyes:
  • edited November 2012
    Yes. No. Maybe. Back to the Future was a change in TTGs gaming philosophy that came as quite the shock for some fans of the company.

    Out with the old, and in with the new. You make the mistake of thinking we still matter.
  • edited November 2012
    We made them what they are today, certainly they wouldn't forget us.

    Hopefully once they work through this huge list of licenses, they'll get back to fun, humor-filled adventure games like SBCG4AP and Sam & Max.
    Maybe a larger Telltale's a good sign. It's possible they could have more than one series going at one time.
  • edited November 2012
    wellgolly wrote: »
    We made them what they are today, certainly they wouldn't forget us.

    Hopefully once they work through this huge list of licenses, they'll get back to fun, humor-filled adventure games like SBCG4AP and Sam & Max.
    Maybe a larger Telltale's a good sign. It's possible they could have more than one series going at one time.

    Those are licensed too. In fact, I don't know that TTG has done anything not based on an existing franchise outside of Puzzle Agent.
  • edited November 2012
    Those are licensed too. In fact, I don't know that TTG has done anything not based on an existing franchise outside of Puzzle Agent.

    Puzzle Agent is licensed too. It's based on Graham Annable's Grickle cartoons.

    Telltale Texas Hold 'Em is still Telltale's only completely original game.
  • edited November 2012
    And that's based on the popular Texas Holdem rules. Can you really call a card game an original thing at all?
  • edited November 2012
    I'm still waiting for Strip Poker Night at the Inventory.
  • edited November 2012
    GaryCXJk wrote: »
    I'm still waiting for Strip Poker Night at the Inventory.

    With Clementine Carley!
  • edited November 2012
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    And that's based on the popular Texas Holdem rules. Can you really call a card game an original thing at all?

    You can call it not licensed.

    And I feel like Wellgolly was referring specifically to this huge list of licenses, since they haven't really done anything else since that list was announced.
  • edited November 2012
    Of course it would be even more fun to tackle BTTF:TG2 in 2015 (just for the sakes of it), having us intervene with the movie's alternate 1985 plotline.

    I'm still keeping my hopes up for more TOMI and a fourth season of S&M.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited November 2012
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    With Clementine Carley!

    Sybil or bust. Oh wait. Sybil AND bust. :cool:
    I'm still keeping my hopes up for more TOMI and a fourth season of S&M.

    It's a manic hope, but I'm right there with you.
  • edited November 2012
    wellgolly wrote: »
    We made them what they are today, certainly they wouldn't forget us.

    Hopefully once they work through this huge list of licenses, they'll get back to fun, humor-filled adventure games like SBCG4AP and Sam & Max.
    Maybe a larger Telltale's a good sign. It's possible they could have more than one series going at one time.


    No they made them what they are today. If it were up to the old fans they wouldn't be what they are today so by default we are in the way and must be alloweduh to die.
  • edited November 2012
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    You can call it not licensed.

    And I feel like Wellgolly was referring specifically to this huge list of licenses, since they haven't really done anything else since that list was announced.

    Holy shit, they're making Puzzle Agent 2?!
    Yes, I already have it.
  • edited November 2012
    No they made them what they are today. If it were up to the old fans they wouldn't be what they are today so by default we are in the way and must be alloweduh to die.

    ...Is it strange that I read that in the voice of the fake R'as al Ghul from Batman Begins?
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