Epic Mickey Developer, Junction Point, Closes Down
By Ishaan . January 29, 2013 . 11:00am“These changes are part of our ongoing effort to address the fast-evolving gaming platforms and marketplace,” say Disney.
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“These changes are part of our ongoing effort to address the fast-evolving gaming platforms and marketplace,” say Disney.
Disney Interactive and Junction Point Studios released Epic Mickey in 2010, but years before the Wii game came out Buena Vista Games was experimenting with different ideas for a Mickey Mouse focused action game.
Nintendo’s Japanese release of the game is slated for August.
Epic Mickey, World of WarCraft: Cataclysm and Michael Jackson: The Experience were amongst December’s best-selling games in the U.S.
Warren Spector, founder of Junction Point Studios and Epic Mickey designer, has some positive comments about the Nintendo 3DS.
Disney sent out a gameplay trailer showing off a quick look at the different kinds of things you’ll be doing with your paint brush.
Warren Spector talks Epic Mickey at a development panel during New York Comic-Con.
Disney Interactive set November 30 as the release date for Epic Mickey, an upcoming Wii game where Mickey explores a cartoon wasteland with forgotten Disney characters like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
The other bonuses are nice, but the behind-the-scenes DVD is what caught our eye.
Junction Point’s opening video to Epic Mickey shows how tampering with Yensid’s experiments can lead to very bad things.
Warren Spector believes every game he’s created since Ultima VI has had the same goal: to enable players to make choices and face the resulting consequences.
Who says fighting and shoot-em-up games are the only ones allowed to have cool custom controllers?
Warren Spector discusses Epic Mickey’s story and mechanics in this awesome behind-the-scenes video from E3.
Warren Spector says Epic Mickey combines the best of platforming, adventure and role-playing games.