Adventure Classic Gaming are extremely privileged to have this rare opportunity to interview Steve Purcell, who has kindly agreed to talk about his work on Sam & Max. In this exclusive interview, Purcell speaks of the origin of Sam & Max, his collaborations with LucasArts and Telltale Games, the cult icon status of the "freelance police", and what holds in the future for his beloved characters.
Adventure Classic Gaming: How satisfied are you with the episodic format delivery of the new Sam & Max series? What other directions will you like to explore for Sam & Max in the future?
Steve Purcell: I was always a believer in the episodic delivery. Years ago when I worked on adventure games that had thirty or forty hours of game play, we would joke, "Why even design the last third of the game? No one will play all the way through anyway." I like that the Telltale Sam & Max games arrive in small doses. That you want to finish one before you move on to the next one and that the audience is receiving new games steadily, month after month.
From Xfire: "Bunnies are often depicted in media and popular culture as small, fluffy, adorable little buck-toothed bundles of cuteness, so far as deifying a rabbit and incorporating it into Easter traditions, somehow associating the mammal with colourful eggs and the consumption of unhealthy quantities of chocolate effigies made in its image. However, not all lagomorphs are love and cuddles - as Australia would be happy to tell you - and in video games, more often than not rabbits will be psychopathic murderers.
Since the brief season in which the ritualistic worship of a paranormal rabbit is socially acceptable is upon us, let's take a look, in no particular order, at the best and baddest hares in video games who could send the Easter Bunny packing."
How is Fran from Final Fantasy XII missing? ;-) She is the most badass Rabbit ever been in a video game!
I would add a couple honorable mentions. Vibri from Vib Ribbon and Robbit from Jumping Flash.
Bucky O'Hare says hello even though he only had one game.
On this week's episode of Second Opinion, HPP's I Coleman says that Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse is better than Grim Fandango. He says some other stuff, too, but that's all anybody's gonna remember.
Player 2 looks at some left of field movies that would make perfect video game translations in the right hands.
