Telltale Games joined by adventure veteran Mike Stemmle

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Feb 19th 2008 at 1:15PM }

Telltale Games has bolstered its collection of adventure veterans with Mike Stemmle, a man you may remember as the co-designer of Sam & Max Hit the Road, Escape from Monkey Island and the lead designer of the thoroughly canned Sam & Max Freelance Police. What you're less likely to remember (by the designer's own admission) is his game Afterlife, a title which has been unable to enjoy the complete resurrection bestowed upon everybody's favorite dodgy doggy detective and hyper-kinetic rabbity thing.

"Mere words are proving woefully inadequate to describe my delight at hooking up with this fiendishly dedicated crew," said Stemmle. "The excitement and talent swirling around Telltale remind me of the geysers of iagination that erupted across the gaming industry in the early 90's. Only this time, with rational production schedules."

Also joining the Telltale Team is award-winning artist and designer Justin Chin, whose credits include the Dark Forces: Jedi Knight series and more recently, The Simpsons Game. Chin will be serving Telltale as an executive producer, alongside newly ~~acquired~~ hired Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike and Lair veteran, Brett Tosti. Both are expected to contribute to Telltale's output and its "growth in multiplatform development."

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Feb 19th 2008 1:37PM

I remember Afterlife. I had the Demo off a PC Gamer disc. Best part: 4 surfers of the apocalypse.

On topic, thats one heck of a team they've put together there.

I WANTS MORE POINT AND CLICK ADVENTURE GAMES FOR WII!

Nic Bell @ Feb 19th 2008 2:08PM

I think I had that same demo disk. I played a ton of that demo. Just recently, I bought a used copy of Afterlife off Amazon. It is still fun, even all these years later.

fco. @ Feb 19th 2008 1:41PM

I remember that game, Afterlife. I never played it, but it looked like fun.

It's great to see Telltale expand. I guess it means they're doing well, and with a genre few people in the industry gave a dime for.

deaftly @ Feb 19th 2008 1:47PM

Ya know, I don't like you guys all away in japan. How am i supposed to kill time at work now? Btw when is the Microsoft conference?

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Feb 19th 2008 1:50PM

GDC is in Japan?

deaftly @ Feb 19th 2008 1:57PM

Damn, I have no idea why i thought that.

Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Feb 19th 2008 2:45PM

That said, how is this such a freaking slow news day when GDC is going on right now?

Kael @ Feb 19th 2008 1:54PM

I also remember Afterlife. Though I never could figure out how to stop losing pennies, it was very enjoyable. I'd like to see Afterlife 2, but I guess SimCity games are out of style. Wait, style didn't stop Sam and Max, why would it stop Jasper and Aria?