Sun Sets Red

Alright, so micro blogging isn’t my thing.  I’m a word man, and Tumblr doesn’t really stretch it for me with words.  Great place for video and pics though, gotta’ hand it to ‘em there.

I’ll still update other blogs that I have, and I’ll let ya’ll know which ones those are as time passes.  For the most part, you’ll find me here:

http://melodramatic.com/users/thirdsight

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I usually don’t do this sort of thing on blogs, but man oh man.

I had a great weekend.

My credentials: Besides my father, Walt Disney is a hero of mine.  The man is an imaginative genius, pulling from his mind amazing concepts that we’d think either impossible or incredibly childish.  On top of which, his dreams have managed to stay alive due to the work and help of so many people, who also had the same dream, and never had the voice to say it.  For those that couldn’t, he could.

It’s that reason why I’ve come to love Walt Disney and his company.  It’s why I like going to Disneyland, and why I love all the old school Disney movies that I was raised on.  They’re childish, and in a world where childhood is dying at a much earlier age, I find it something worth holding on to.

Recently however, there has been rumors in the works of another big Disney game, such that’s on par with Kingdom Hearts; it’s also rumored to be called Epic Mickey.  Pretty exciting news.

If you’re thinking that this game is anything cutsey like Kingdom Hearts was, think twice.  This game is dark, based in steampunk styles, a style of art and media that is starting to get some nice attention.

Needless to say, this is rather strange.  It was already odd when Disney signed over the rights to use their movies/characters in Kingdom Hearts, a RPG, which was a game genre Disney had never bothered to create.  Epic Mickey is apparently a platformer, on what kind of scale we don’t know, but I’d recon that it’d be as dark as another platformer that got a great deal of attention at the turn of the millennium, American McGee’s Alice.  Will it be as dark and bloody as McGee’s game?  Most likely not.  But it’ll be creepy, just as most steampunk games tend to be.

It’s interesting to think that about 5-10 years ago, this kind of idea wouldn’t even make it off the chain.  Yet, the game already has a good amount of concept art done already by Fred Gambino, and Warren Spector, the man working on the project, has already gotten started.  Disney’s marketing audience has defiantly grown up in the past few years.  Disney’s original dream was to create something that kids and adults could enjoy at the same time; nearly everything he created while he was alive adheres to that idea.  But now Disney seems more oriented to marketing to tweens, young adults, and adults, which is, for lack of a better word, curious.