Indy's brother
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Indy's brother said:There's been little, if any, attempt to keep the public interested in the idea other than not shooting it down completely (Kathleen Kennedy's comments aside).
Great, thanks to a Facebook post of Mitch's, I get to eat my words after only 7 hours this time:
For those of you unfamiliar, this game is produced by Zynga, the same people we have to thank for Farmville, Cityville, Empires & Allies, Frontierville, and Mafia Wars. From the link:
Since Adventure World's release last week, many media outlets dubbed it "FarmVille meets Indiana Jones." It seems that Zynga took those allusions to heart, as the company has teamed up with Lucasfilm to make good on those hit-generating remarks. Zynga just announced that Indiana Jones will soon make his way into Adventure World this October.
In fact, it appears that the game will be completely rebranded with the Indiana Jones name, according to the above image. The teaser depicts the familiar Adventure World logo, but now reads, "Adventure World: An Indiana Jones Game." To us at least, this implies that Zynga Boston's debut game will incorporate the Indiana Jones brand throughout (and perhaps permanently). The wording of Zynga's announcement certainly steers us toward this conclusion:
Zynga is proud to announce that we're teaming up with Lucasfilm to bring Indiana Jones - the KING of lost idol hunting, bull whipping, holy grail-ing and flying (but not landing) - to your favorite adventure game. Adventure World: An Indiana Jones Game will be coming soon to a browser near you.
So. Although it's obviously a money-making enterprise, it's hard not to see a game like this putting Indy in every SoNet-ing person's face for a good year at least. While probably not the overall intent of this game, the latent effect is that it should keep public awareness/interest in the franchise at some kind of healthy level.
So fine. I'm wrong about something. It's been known to happen. Occasionally, though so don't get cocky.
EDIT: Though this post was in reference to a previous post of mine in this thread, if it belongs in the Indy Video Games forum, it won't hurt my feelings any more to be wrong twice in one day.....
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