revenge-of-the-balloon-headed-mexican posts

The indie game developers at Zombie Cow are responsible for some impressive PC game releases such as Time Gentlemen Please and more recently the free (and somewhat risque) game Privates. However way back in September 2009 the team announced plans for its follow up to Time Gentlemen Please, Revenge of the Balloon-Headed Mexican.

Unfortunately it looks like the continuing adventues of Dan and Ben will have to wait. This week Zombie Cow announced that Revenge of the Balloon-Headed Mexican has been put on the shelf. While there were several reasons for the decision the main one seems to be that the team felt that they had made the game before with Time Gentlemen Please, saying " ... it felt like we were going over old, worn ground. Again and again." At the moment even Zombie Cow has no idea what its next game will be like. Rock Paper Shogun has some more info on what Revenge of the Balloon-Headed Mexican would have been like.

See that image above? That's the actual title for Zombie Cow Studios' next game. Yep, the folks behind the acclaimed indie games Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! have announced their next project and this time it's an episodic (sort of) sequel to Time Gentlemen, Please!.

The title Revenge of the Balloon-Headed Mexican is not supposed to be funny, per se. As the folks behind the game state in their introduction to the game, " . . . our antagonist genuinely does have a balloon for a head." So there's that. Each game's episode will be about the length of a TV show (half-hour sitcom or hour-long drama wasn't specified) and Dan and Ben can now go their separate ways in the game. According to Zombie Cow, "So we've got these two separate branches going on within the first episode - which makes it feel very different to the previous games." No release date was announced.