So, Telltale is doing Wallace & Gromit, how about that ?

[vimes]

I'm definitely not a fan of seeing stuff I love being adapted to other media but W&G did great on several formats (shorts, feature film, advertising) and Telltale might be the best pick to expand intelligently this universe though episodic gaming.

However, if there's no doubt in my mind that the Telltale team is very talented, I'm not convinced they needed to confront themselves to such a perfect franchise in terms of visual and animation - aspects that usually suffers from the time constraints of episodic dev. W&G is also perfect in term of storytelling but by now, I kinda trust Telltale on this point.

Definitely, their graphic engine need a lot of improvement to mimick the details and organic imperfections that make the W&G look. It's important because I don't think they'll be able go away with simplification this time. They released this encouraging image and I hope it's a target render and not just a bs-render as they definitely need to deliver this kind of quality (if not better) if they want their stuff to not just be considered merchandising.

However, what's nice about this announcement is that it might foretell the return of Telltale to innovation toward physical puzzles which they haven't done enough of in the Sam & Max series : because a Wallace & Gromit adventure can't be as dialog-heavy as are Strong Bad, Sam & Max or even Bone, they'll need to do that to make the gameplay interesting.

[Thrik]

I definitely anticipate it a lot.

Telarium (now programming the TTG engine it seems) mentioned in Mojo's comments that we'll be impressed by the engine's progress:

I will say that as I am programming the game, people will come by and look over my shoulder and say, "I can't believe this is the same engine." I think you guys will be impressed by what we can do.

... so that's a promising sign. Obviously he's a developer, but you don't go promising stuff like that to an audience like Mojo lightly. ;