People were understandably shocked and upset when this shower of bastards cancelled Sam and Max 2, but then came the hints that it might be saved! And so the hilarity began.
Bad Brain Entertainment, a previously unheard-of German outfit, began posting subtle hints that Sam and Max 2 might not be quite so dead after all. Subtle hints like “we can’t tell you what we’re talking to LucasArts about, but it involves a dog and a rabbit!!!”. I may be paraphrasing a tiny bit.
Considering Bad Brain were supposedly under a Non-Disclosure Agreement, nobody was too surprised when “negotiations” broke down. Fast forward to 2005 and the Bad Brain CEO Blog, a veritable gold-mine of comedy. Here we discover that those high-powered negotations involved… one email exchange and no further contact.
Oh dear. On this same CEO blog, we also discover that Bad Brain found their corporate logo on the Internet. Wolfgang, top CEO, named his upcoming game i-Jet after seeing an inkjet printer in his office.
Something similar happens in Fun with Dick and Jane. But that is, you know, a comedy film.
The latest development is that some guy from the Adventure Gamers forums has been on an internship with the company. Nothing strange about that, you might think, but after reading his article I can’t shake the feeling that he’s the entire creative force behind the company. It’s just that nobody has mentioned that to him yet.
I’ve linked to it before, but it’s very apt. Had old Wolfgang decided to set Bad Brain up fifteen years ago, his enthusiasm would probably have got him somewhere. But this is 2006 and it costs millions to bring a successful game to market - unless you convince your potential fanbase to make your game for you, or something. Oh Wolfgang, you wouldn’t!
