epic-mickey posts

While Eidos Montreal is working hard on Deus Ex: Human Revolution, we could have had a spiritual successor to the first two games in the sci-fi RPG series from the man behind those classic games Warren Spector. In a new chat with the Develop web site Spector admits that he pitched such a game to the higher ups at Disney Interactive.

However he figured beforehand that the Disney execs wouldn't go for his game idea and he says, " ... I was right. The guys started texting in the middle of the meeting. I was convinced they were not interested." Instead Disney pitched an idea to Spector that eventually became his next game, the upcoming Wii exclusive Epic Mickey. However that sci-fi game idea might still happen in some form. Spector says, "Disney now owns the IP to it. So who knows – I certainly have ideas of how they would work in a Disney context."

For the past few weeks we have been learning more about Epic Mickey, the upcoming Wii exclusive RPG that's being developer at Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios. Yet the man behind the Thief and Deus Ex series said that the game actually started out a a PC game (alongside the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles).

So what happened? According to a chat with Spector at the Official Nintendo Magazine he didn't want to make a Wii port that wouldn't be as good as the other versions. He would also like to concentrate on one platform. The solution turned out to be simple. Just make the game for the Wii and the Wii only. Still, it will be great when and if Spector decides to return to PC game making. One can only hope.

We have been waiting for a long, long time to find out some real details on the first game from Junction Point Studios. The Austin based company was founded by Warren Spector way back in 2004 but has yet to produce one game. In 2006 the company was bought, unexpectedly, by Disney Interactive.

Now Gamasutra is reporting that they have seen concept artwork that they believe may be from Junction Point's first game which they say is code-named "Epic Mickey". One such image has a scene where "machines wearing the faces of the Seven Dwarfs deposit old-fashioned renditions of Disney characters onto the beach with mechanical hands." All of this info tracks with earlier statements by Spector himself who on his own blog predicted some of his Deus Ex and Thief fans might not care about his next title. At the time he stated, "I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting into that discussion with them".