Telltale Games
Overview
San Rafael-based Telltale Games is led by a trio of ex-
LucasArts employees:
Dan Connors, CEO and former producer/director at LucasArts;
Kevin Bruner, Chief Technology Officer who helped develop the engines for many prominent LucasArts titles; and
Troy Molander, former director of the LucasArts Technical Art Department.
They have developed games in five different franchises all based on existing properties except for their first game. The first release was the casual poker game
Telltale Texas Hold'em (2005). Next, they created two episodes in the
Bone series, adapted from
Jeff Smith's comics:
Bone: Out from Boneville (2005) and
Bone: The Great Cow Race (2006). Both games were made available as digital downloads and physical copies. In between, they did the 4th and 5th
CSI game:
3 Dimensions of Murder (Windows - 2006, PS2 - 2007) and
Hard Evidence (Windows, Xbox 360 - 2007). Telltale also took on an advisory role for
Ankh (2006).
Between October 2006 and April 2007 the company released
Sam & Max: Season One, a series of episodic games based on
Steve Purcell's Sam & Max comics. Season 1 consists of six games and part of the development was funded by digital content distributor
GameTap, granting the company to offer the episodes through its website prior to a global release (usually for about two weeks). In November 2007 a second season of five episodes was started. It ran until April 2008.
Before the last episode was released, the company announced a new series of five games,
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, based on the online Homestar Runner body of work. The first episode,
Homestar Ruiner, was released in August 2008. It was the company's first Wii game and was offered as a WiiWare title.
Having become an icon of the adventure scene, Telltale also sells digital download versions of other adventures through their online shop. The company is known for releasing its games in different episodes, a practice CEO
Dan Connors refers to as "license incubation" to build up and tweak a franchise step by step.
Trivia
Location and Contact information (2007):
Telltale Games
P.O. Box 9737
San Rafael, CA 94912-9737
Phone: 415.258.1638
Fax: 415.258.1795
Related Web-Sites
Browse Games
List Games
