Flushed Away Spins to Stores
Licensed game ahoy!
Published: October 24, 2006
Okay, so here's a dilemma: if you're Nick Park, and you've made more money than some small third world countries with the Wallace and Gromit series, a series that is renowned for preserving the art of the stop-motion claymation technique, what do you do when you just want to, y'know get on with it? You and your Aardman animation studio decide to make Flushed Away, a CG movie with the same basic aesthetics of the old W&G movies without the painstaking position-photograph-reposition-photograph style but updated a bit.
And what do you do if you're a publisher like D3Publisher (who has "publisher" right in their name and nets us a cool $20 for writing a sentence that has "publisher" in it four times!), and you'd like to get into this whole licensing thing? You pony up the cash and offer to make a game based on this new movie, the DreamWorks-pushed movie of the same name. Cha-ching!
The problem is, most licensed games are... well, we probably don't even need to say it (crap, HA! We said it anyway!), and some might have legit concerns about the development staff and the prospects of the game. Monkey Bar Games (who previously worked on) are the developers, and the game itself is made up of 10 levels with mini-games thrown in for good measure. Still, you needn't worry according to D3.
“We have worked closely with DreamWorks and Aardman to authentically bring the humor of the Flushed Away film and the personalities of its characters to life in our game,” reassures Careen Yapp, D3Publisher America's VP of licensing and biz dev. “Flushed Away offers a gameplay experience that children as well as adults will enjoy.”
Well, see, there ya go! Plain as day, and the screens we have should show that the game at least apes the style, if not the whole presentation of the flick, rather admirably. Now, we just wait for our copy to arrive so we can see how things turned out...
And what do you do if you're a publisher like D3Publisher (who has "publisher" right in their name and nets us a cool $20 for writing a sentence that has "publisher" in it four times!), and you'd like to get into this whole licensing thing? You pony up the cash and offer to make a game based on this new movie, the DreamWorks-pushed movie of the same name. Cha-ching!
The problem is, most licensed games are... well, we probably don't even need to say it (crap, HA! We said it anyway!), and some might have legit concerns about the development staff and the prospects of the game. Monkey Bar Games (who previously worked on) are the developers, and the game itself is made up of 10 levels with mini-games thrown in for good measure. Still, you needn't worry according to D3.
“We have worked closely with DreamWorks and Aardman to authentically bring the humor of the Flushed Away film and the personalities of its characters to life in our game,” reassures Careen Yapp, D3Publisher America's VP of licensing and biz dev. “Flushed Away offers a gameplay experience that children as well as adults will enjoy.”
Well, see, there ya go! Plain as day, and the screens we have should show that the game at least apes the style, if not the whole presentation of the flick, rather admirably. Now, we just wait for our copy to arrive so we can see how things turned out...
