Zombie Cow to make episodic Dan and Ben games

by Justin McElroy on Aug 18th 2009 9:00AM

Well, this is the perfect way to start a Tuesday morning. Zombie Cow Studios, the guys behind the brilliant Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please have told Rock, Paper, Shotgun that they're working on new, episodic adventures for Dan and Ben, prompted in part by the game's ridiculously good critical reception.

Chunks of the new series will be short -- hovering around an hour -- and self-contained, so newcomers can hop on at any point. Well, "newcomers" is Zombie Cow's Dan Marshall's language. We prefer to call people who haven't played Ben There, Dan That "bad people."

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Tags: adventure, ben-there-dan-that, dan-marshall, episodic, time-gentlemen-please, zombie-cow

Reader Comments (7)

HOW DO I FIX THE TV!

Great that we're getting more Zombie Cow adventure love, but you know what? A big part of TGP's greatness was that it was a proper-sized adventure game, with long-form puzzles and two dozen inventory items by the end. It stood out from the six thousand episodic games that came out last year.

I suppose I shouldn't complain that we're drowning in graphic adventures these days, and I'll gladly take episodes over nothing, but, you know... just sayin'.

They actually addressed why they are going episodic in the RPS article:

"Time Gentlemen, Please! is selling nicely, but not really enough to justify working for another 9 months or so on a sequel, which is a shame, because the D&B games are generally a complete joy to work on."