Zbang! - The game

[soundguy]

Zbang! The Game
The first project we started working on about a year ago is the demo for �Zbang! The Game� is already available for download at http://corbomitegames.com/zbang
In the demo, you play Mike, an average teenager, who likes to surf, play rock'n'roll music, and fantasize about having sex with his girlfriend, Jennifer, in his adventures through the everyday world of high school teenagers.

�Zbang! Episode One� (currently in the Design development stage) continues the adventures of both Mike and Jennifer in the world of teenage relationships, and tells how he and Jennifer originally started dating, allowing you to play the story from both points of view at the same time!

The story-arch of the entire 1st season, with it's estimated 5-6 episodes, will be the twisting relationship of Mike and Jennifer. As in more traditional television sitcom format � new characters, playing scenes and story-lines will be introduced each episode.

Here are some screenshots:









and a short gameplay video is available at :
http://www.youtube.com/v/TXGPxqjwjkU

[PolloDiablo]

Interesting graphics

Is the game aimed at teenagers (or more generally, young people who haven't played a lot of adventures yet)?

[Noone]

I would make the question a bit deepr. Will this game be interesting to Israel only teenager auditory which knows the comics?

[soundguy]

The game is intended to teenagers and adults all the same.
It addresses all the issues that teenagers (and many adults) are obsessed with: love.
Former knowledge of the comics isn't required, exactly the opposite: We will get to introduce all the lovable characters of the comics in an interactive and funny way.

[Noone]

What is the estimated lenght of each episode? Will the difficulty of the game be like in demo you've released?

[soundguy]

we want to make episode long enough, but not too long, we figure out it's better to get you more episodes and more stories out there, than have you wait years until we finish producing one long game.

We haven't figured that out how difficult Episode 1 will be, but we aim it not to be very difficult so that even non hardcore adventure gamers can easily enjoy it's humor.

We have some more exciting puzzles and ingenious game design for the first episodes of Pizza Moraga and Zbang, which is considerably better than the demo.
We certainly learned a lot by making and releasing it.
And we will improve upon each episode we'll release based on your feedbacks.

Did you play the demo ? What do you think about it ?

[Noone]

I've played the demo. I found it a bit easy for me. And, well, I'm not a teenager. :-)

[soundguy]

You played it on "Hard" right ?

[OdedSaar]

I would like to add a bit more about the teenagers vs. adults question, speaking from my POV as game designer of the upcoming "Zbang! The Game" series:

For its over 20 years run, Zbang! the comic-book kept telling the tale of the twisting relationship of two typical teenagers, Mike and Jennifer.
We wanted to keep the theme of the comic-book, with its bizzarities and unique kind of comedy, while developing an original story-line for an adventure game.

So, the primary story arch for first season will put the players through several stages of Mike and Jennifer's relationship (starting with how they met for the first time in the first episode), allowing the player to guide both Jennifer and Mike through their twisting maze of a relationship...

[Noone]

You played it on "Hard" right ?

Can't be quite sure - this was a couple of months ago or so - but supposingly yes.