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Let's remember our history...

DanHDanH Telltale Alumni
edited July 2009 in General Chat
Hello, friends!
So, we've got a lot going on nowadays, but as I was looking for links to put in Old Man H-Bomb's Storytime Blog I stumbled upon a lot of great office and community moments that I thought would be fun to share with you. Those of you who have been here a while might remember these moments well. Those of you who just joined the community are in for a treat.

I'll start this off with some of your contributions. All that's really needed is a little incentive and we get floods of awesome stuff submitted by people like you.

Draw an Ape 2007
Draw an Ape 2008
Trogday 1
Trogday 2
Halloween 2007
Halloween 2008



Then there are moments that are completely spontaneous and yield interesting results.
Sam and Max Episode 203 art explosion
Draw Max
Make Max Creepy
Cintiq in the hizzouse



Finally, we are lucky enough to have fans that have the motivation and general good will to do extraordinary things. We'll never forget that you did this not once, but twice. Thank you again!
Season 1 gift
Season 1 gift planning
Season 2 gift
Season 2 gift planning

If there are any other moments that you remember and would like to share, or if you have any questions about events of the past, inside jokes we have, or other such things, go ahead and post them.

Comments

  • EmilyEmily Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    Don't forget Halloween 2006 - those Australian guys actually blew up a pumpkin. (Legalish note: We will never again give someone a prize for blowing up a pumpkin.)

    I have a soft spot for the newsletters circa 2006, when we first switched to tabloid-style format. (It was the first of many decisions Jake and I made that resulted in people raising their eyebrows and giving each other shifty glances across the room.) This is a good one that features Dan striking a classic pose. I especially enjoyed the Cooking with Rat Creature Number Two column that appeared in one of them, since it involved calling my mother up in the middle of the day and asking her to read out her quiche recipe to me over the phone. She was like, "What is this new job of yours, exactly?"
  • DanHDanH Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    Emily wrote: »
    This is a good one

    I miss those! Plus, young Phil!
  • MaratanosMaratanos
    edited June 2009
    I wasn't around back then, but I started following your company far enough in the past that I remember stumbling accross it in the blog archive.

    But I really don't think any mention of your history would be complete without the Blades of Stenchtar.
  • Hero1Hero1
    edited June 2009
    Great blog! one of my favorite threads was telltale haikus Even Dan Connors wrote a haiku! :D
  • Mike HaleyMike Haley
    edited June 2009
    I have a few rare Telltale Games images stored in my profile albums (not in any particular order):
    http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/album.php?u=82

    I was the one that did that silly Blades of Stenchtar DVD case. At the moment, I am using it to house my unofficial Telltale Games Archive DVD. It is still sitting next to my copies of Bone. Oh, and Emily, I couldn't bring myself to throw out the original Bone cases/discs after last year's Comic-Con. Whenever I feel the need to reinstall the games, I only use the Director's Cut discs, though.

    Jake may know me best as, "Downtime Email Person." Say, that e-mail isn't still posted on a wall somewhere, is it? I need to be more careful what I write at 12 AM.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    mhaley wrote: »
    Jake may know me best as, "Downtime Email Person." Say, that e-mail isn't still posted on a wall somewhere, is it? I need to be more careful what I write at 12 AM.

    You will be sad to hear that its posted on a wall along with the "Santa is not real and is for kids" forum post and our furry Best Anthropomorphic Character award.
  • TjibbbeTjibbbe
    edited June 2009
    Great overview. I've been lurking on this site for a long time (since the day Sam & Max was announced), but got on the episodic train somewhere during season 2, I think (before that I thought I could wait until the retail editions. God, I was wrong).

    What happened to Suitbro? He was awesome!
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    Tjibbbe wrote: »
    What happened to Suitbro? He was awesome!

    He returned to the land of Craigslist, I guess, as that's where we found him :)
  • DanHDanH Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    Tjibbbe wrote: »

    What happened to Suitbro? He was awesome!

    Speaking of Suitbro, remember this?
  • DanHDanH Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    Hero1 wrote: »
    Great blog! one of my favorite threads was telltale haikus Even Dan Connors wrote a haiku! :D

    This really brings me back, and it is an amazing thread that would show up every so often but has spanned more than 4 years!
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited June 2009
    Hey, I didn't see this contest on there! :)

    http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-217
  • DanHDanH Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    Hey, I didn't see this contest on there! :)

    http://www.telltalegames.com/community/blogs/id-217

    Sweet! I totally forgot about guernica Sam and Max. We did have a couple of people in the office with the Season 1 group picture and I think Jake built the paper version of Bluster Blaster.

    Here's another interesting forum moment. We had just started the Summer of Sam and Max and people were discussing the history of Sam and Max, including an early drawing by Dave Purcell (Steve's Brother). Then, around page 6, the discussion had turned to Moo Hoo Man and we get this. His postcount is still 1.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    DanH wrote: »
    Sweet! I totally forgot about guernica Sam and Max. We did have a couple of people in the office with the Season 1 group picture and I think Jake built the paper version of Bluster Blaster.

    Here's another interesting forum moment. We had just started the Summer of Sam and Max and people were discussing the history of Sam and Max, including an early drawing by Dave Purcell (Steve's Brother). Then, around page 6, the discussion had turned to Moo Hoo Man and we get this. His postcount is still 1.

    RIP Moo Hoo Man. I really enjoy that we killed off Steve's brother's character off screen in a video game over 20 years later.
  • Mike HaleyMike Haley
    edited June 2009
    Nobody else has mentioned it, so I just thought that I would add that you can use The Wayback Machine to see what the Telltale Games web site looked like as far back as April 29th, 2004. That is just under two months after the cancellation of Sam & Max: Freelance Police.

    http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.telltalegames.com

    What could be in that oven...
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    mhaley wrote: »
    What could be in that oven...

    A 3D model of Dank, probably.
  • TjibbbeTjibbbe
    edited June 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    A 3D model of Dank, probably.

    dank.gif

    I never knew the Moo Hoo Man in 203 was the same as the one from Dave's collection. Brilliant. Every fan is begging you guys to bring back Mack Salmon and the Rubberpants Commandos, and this is what they get. Excellent:D.

    I still have fond memories of the Interim Theatre with little more than that utterly confusing 'not primates'-movie, and that awesome Pirate webcam. Good times. Good times.
  • DanHDanH Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    Tjibbbe wrote: »
    I still have fond memories of the Interim Theatre with little more than that utterly confusing 'not primates'-movie, and that awesome Pirate webcam. Good times. Good times.

    Good times indeed! We expected the pirate to start growing immediately and we could barely tell if anything was happening after a day, so people started staging their desk toys to make it more entertaining. We even tried moving them around stop-motion style to see if we could tell a story... After a while we got bored of it, which of course is when the pirate really started growing.

    Also, don't forget about the Puppet Theater of Failure. It must have been the late-night spontaneity of the moment because somehow everyone involved was committed to making this idea happen. We got Kim Lyons making the puppets, Dave Bogan drawing the curtains, Kevin brought in his pets, Emily controlled the puppets, Jake and Doug set up the camera and the projector... I even took the time to make the floating cursor. I'm not sure if this ever actually made it into interim theatre, but it was our first stab at trying to do something unique.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited June 2009
    I do miss Interim Theater. Most recent thing like it were the Behind the Bad videos. Any chance we'll see the return of Interim Theater with the Monkey Island season?
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    Probably not, because we're so amazingly busy, and the people who used to make those sorts of things (eg Nick and I) are now working on games full time. I'd like to get that sort of content back in some form, though.

    If anyone wants to watch some Interim Theater and other miscellaneous, dubious, Telltale videos, here is a handy list:

    Puppet Theater of Failure
    Steve Purcell Sketching at Comic-Con
    "The Phone"
    Codename: Suitbro
    Grow A Pirate
    "Not Primates"
    What's New Beelzebub Trailer (Dunno if that one counts.)

    And there is of course Behind the Bad.

    The SBCG4AP DVD includes an extended version of the Make a Scene video which helps it all actually make sense. So, get excited for that! :)
  • Mack DaddyMack Daddy
    edited June 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    Probably not, because we're so amazingly busy, and the people who used to make those sorts of things (eg Nick and I) are now working on games full time.

    Yeah, you guys are busy. I don't see you on Steam that much anymore. No time for play...
  • jp-30jp-30
    edited June 2009
    It used to be fun making Jake come along to squash all the MI-Telltale related news/rumour/conclusion-jumping posts at Mojo;

    http://www.mixnmojo.com/php/news/showfile.php?id=2249&category=telltale

    I miss that.

    Also, I posted this in a blog comment at some time, not entirely sure when...

    f1.jpg

    Oh, and this was my greatest discovery...

    danc-the-caveman.jpg
  • EmilyEmily Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    character_explosion.jpg

    Haha, Gary actually snuck a Grickle-style Dan Connors drawing into the fifth anniversary art... can you spot it?
  • TjibbbeTjibbbe
    edited June 2009
    Heh, awesome, he's hanging out with Bruner and Dudebrough, like he should be.

    By the way, I've never seen the woman above the Soda Poppers before. Wallace & Gromit episode 4?
  • EmilyEmily Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    Tjibbbe wrote: »
    By the way, I've never seen the woman above the Soda Poppers before. Wallace & Gromit episode 4?

    Could be...
  • plrichardplrichard
    edited June 2009
    I'm fairly new here (as my post count and join date would suggest)...got lured by the new Monkey Island:p. But I just want to say how freaking it awesome is that all of you guys actually read the forums and post a lot, it makes me smile a little bit every time I see a TellTale logo by someone's forum name. You guys are how game developers should be, you honestly care about the games and the product that you put out, but most of all you care about catering to your customers, the gamers. And for that I say, thank you TellTale Games!

    P.S. ZOMBIE LINCOLN OMG!
  • DanHDanH Telltale Alumni
    edited June 2009
    Well, for one, we are fans of the licenses we work on and we consider ourselves part of the fan community. But also, you folks keep us constantly entertained (and a little frightened sometimes). This brings me to the title for the blog which is a reference to Zachspyfox033's early days when he used to reply to posts by plugging his site. It became a bit of an inside joke around here.

    I'm not sure if we ever found out what Zachspyfox033 thought of "Bright Side of the Moon" and "Chariots of the Dogs".
  • Hero1Hero1
    edited June 2009
    Oh man..that zachspyfoxguy was annoying.. The blue line/brendan in the closet jokes were always funny because us forum members had no reference point.. It was interesting seeing the pictures of the old office buildings in that blog Dan! Not quite what I had imagined in my mind
  • xChri5xxChri5x
    edited June 2009
    Good times
  • jp-30jp-30
    edited June 2009
    DanH wrote: »
    I'm not sure if we ever found out what Zachspyfox033 thought of "Bright Side of the Moon" and "Chariots of the Dogs".

    Good news!

    http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8883
  • xChri5xxChri5x
    edited June 2009
    Games! (and Space)

    classic.
  • Hero1Hero1
    edited June 2009
    Haha.. you're always on the ball JP :)
  • DanHDanH Telltale Alumni
    edited July 2009
    Ok, one more obscure anecdote... This thread is in General Chat and you'll notice it has a little blurb about how it used to be known as "The Yak Space". We changed this fairly early on in forums history, mostly because "Yak" generally sounds unpleasant.

    In the early days before the change, traffic on our site was easily monitored, given the smaller numbers we were bringing in. We noticed we were getting a high concentration of hits from seemingly unrelated searches that featured Tibetan jewelry. This puzzled us for a while because we were working on CSI and Out From Boneville and neither of them really seemed to have anything to do with Tibet.

    The solution to the puzzle was made clear to us when someone finally decided to post in our forums after landing here based on search engine results. They were selling Tibetan Yak Bone Malas.

    I'm not going to claim that this motivated the change, but it sure seemed to come soon after that event. :p
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