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Old 04-01-2010, 07:37 AM   #1
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Default Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert's ambitious new adventure game project: "Rock 'n Roll".

I was surprised to hear this from some media sources I have access to (I won't say who) that Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert are finally to unveil the first details of their new adventure game project, "Rock 'n Roll".
The game features old-school 2D graphics, and even a text parser interface. When asked why, Schafer responded:

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Well, the idea was conceived a LONG time ago in the early 70s by our fathers, Mickey Schafer and Valedictilius Gilbert, as a vehicle for Elvis Presley. As a viral marketing campaign, Elvis' death was faked, and the game would be released the next month. Of course, our fathers both then realised that what would be needed to program and fully produce the game weren't actually invented yet. So our fathers passed the details of the game down to us and we vowed to have it finished.
Ron Gilbert continued, as Tim Schafer stopped to have a bit of sick in a bin.

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We got kind of side-tracked with, not only the other projects, but with the lifestyle of drugs and prostitutes that many now associate with LucasArts' adventure game teams. Only recently have we finished the programming, and we don't have much time to polish the graphics and things to a modern standard because we should probably let Elvis out of his underground sea home.
The game is expected to be released in exactly twenty-eight seconds in the US, and forty-two years in other parts of the world, except for Canada who have had the game since 1863, due to a rupture in the time / space continuum.
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Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert working together on a game would be awesome. Maybe one day it will happen for real.
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Gotta give you credit for your imagination, Hammie.
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I think after the build up and dismal failure of Brutal Legend there's a court order against Tim Schaffer making any more music related games...
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For some reason Full Throttle is one of my old time favorite old games (havent played it in soon 10++ years or something and doubt I will, incase it ruins my memory) so when I first read your post I got excited, then I got sad, thank you!
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I think after the build up and dismal failure of Brutal Legend there's a court order against Tim Schaffer making any more music related games...
Are you serious?
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For some reason Full Throttle is one of my old time favorite old games (havent played it in soon 10++ years or something and doubt I will, incase it ruins my memory) so when I first read your post I got excited, then I got sad, thank you!
Sorry. I start an April Fool's thread, every year.
This is the one I'm most proud of, though.
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Sorry. I start an April Fool's thread, every year.
This is the one I'm most proud of, though.
Rightly so. Putting Gilbert and Schafer in the frame made the rest of the insanity disturbingly plausible. Not as true facts but as the sort of thing they'd say to attract attention to a project.
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I hadn't thought of that; but, in consideration, I am a genius.
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I hadn't thought of that; but, in consideration, I am a genius.
What I think you meant to say is that was your intention all along of course.
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You should've written something about Ron Gilbert and Squinky working on a project together. Oh, wait...
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I hope he doesn't see it and tell me off about it!!

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Could happen.
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I love how this got moved to "Chit Chat"...So that's where all of the April Fool threads go.
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