Telltale Games talks Xbox Live Arcade and Sam & Max
by Jared Rea 
{ Feb 27th 2007 at 1:50PM }
A week ago, we brought word that Telltale Games, the folks behind Sam & Max, were looking for a Xbox 360 programmer for an unnamed project. Well, the position is still up in the air and what's more, they're talking about it.Eurogamer caught up with Telltale to ask about the ominous job listing and while they don't come right out and spill the beans (naturally), they do point out that it has to do with episodic content and Xbox Live Arcade.
Aside from us clawing at our keyboards and screaming like cheerleaders when it comes to Sam & Max, this raises a few questions concerning Xbox Live Arcade. The main one being, Is episodic content even possible in its current state? If Microsoft is just getting by with the skin of their teeth every release, could ongoing content really be delivered in a timely manner?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Marty @ Feb 27th 2007 1:56PM
Er... is the occasional lack of content due to Microsoft being backed up with too much content to review, or is it due to developers just trying to make sure their games are finished?
J.Goodwin @ Feb 27th 2007 2:04PM
It seems more like there are games that are not getting their showstoppers fixed before submission to final cert.
However, I'm of the opinion that if Telltale delivered the engine as a pay download, then you had a free episode one DLC, with additional episodes delivered as DLC using the same engine, then you could easily get on a schedule, as long as you had a few episodes completed before you shipped.
Then again, there have been those couple DLC snafus where something got screwed up when the encryption was added.
Marty @ Feb 27th 2007 2:07PM
Well, they seem to be doing okay for getting their content delivered on time for PC users... so I don't see why this would be any different.
LunarDuality @ Feb 27th 2007 2:19PM
I think a "timely" release schedule is absolutely possible but I put the onus on developers making their games worthy of certifcation rather than on MS speeding up their cert process.
t_m @ Feb 28th 2007 9:57AM
microsoft can only manage timely release schedules for critical security patches.. but they sure can release those at high speed! ;-)