A Quick Plug for a Dear Friend
If you have a Wii (or one of them non-Mac computers) and you’re a fan of Strong Bad (or indeed, simply a fan of adventure games and good jokes), I urge you to check out the first (of several) episode of the new Wiiware game, out today. I’d be excited for this thing anyway, but the project lead is none other than Mark Darin, my friend of nearly 20 years, founder of Pinhead Games and just all-around talented mama jama. Mark parlayed the experience and success of Pinhead into an actual paying gig with Telltale Games (who have also resurrected the Sam and Max license from a decade and a half of development hell and recently announced a Wallace and Gromit project).
Mark, I’ve never been more simultaneously proud and jealous of anyone in my life. Now quit screwing around with my internet idols and get to work on that script for the third Nick Bounty game I wrote.
A bit later: I’m in the credits! I got listed in the “special thanks” bit near the end. I tried to take a picture; my lousy photographic skills make it look more like SAMBO than AALGAR. But trust me: I’m there. You’ll just have to beat the entire game to see for yourself.