Off Topic > Games
R.I.P ~ Toontown Online ~ June 2nd, 2003 - September 19th, 2013
Electro:
Everyone wants Jesse Schell (The original lead devoloper) to buy Toontown. Here's a string of text that was written by Jesse:
--- Quote ---I just have a few questions. I don't know if you will revisit the website after posting this but I hope that you do and respond to our questions.
1. What other games have Schell developed? You have earned a great deal of respect from me as of late and I want to support Schell games.
2. If you or another company manages to get TT or decides to remake the game a good way of making sure the community doesn't die is to release weekly or bi weekly snapshots of what you've done in game this week. Or just a preview of aspects of the game.
3. Do you really think that it'll take years? I mean that is a long time. Months or weeks. No problem!
4. As others have asked do you know anything about the Downtown Toontown rumour? Is that what you meant by 'the future of Toontown and whether other companies will be involved' I know you couldn't reveal much. Though a subtle hint would be nice
5. Finally if Toontown was to rise again. Would we keep our toons? Or not?
1. You can check out some of my other games at http://schellgames.com
2. So noted.
3. Yes, it might take years. It took me three years of pitching the idea for Pixie Hollow before I could get Disney interested, for example. I know it seems like forever. But, sometimes we need to miss things a little bit in order to properly appreciate them. I feel pretty sure that if Toontown were to get a real solid overhaul, it would take at least a year of development time. Keep in mind that it took about three years to get it from start of development to launch.
4. I can't talk about that.
5. I am sure that the folks running the game will carefully back up the database, in hopes that one day, the Toons can rise again. Whether that will actually happen is another matter, but putting in terms a Cog can understand, there is real cash value in the Toon database -- and Disney knows that. Think of it as a long term "Frozen Assets"
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Notice how he says "I can't talk about it" when referring to Downtown Toontown (the rumored upcoming MMO [There is an upcoming Disney MMO BTW])
KelBlock:
Only 8 days left 'til Super Flipperflipper is ded. :c
--- Quote from: KelBlock on August 24, 2013, 09:32:58 AM ---
neva 4get
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Freek:
bump
KelBlock:
Well this is interesting.
Insomniac:
Bump, four more days guys :c