Gallery: the broke-down steampunk dystopian Magic Kingdom of Epic Mickey
I always feel a certain twinge of sadness when art and images leak ahead of official release, and try and keep Offworld clear of speculation (except in exceedingly rare cases), but now that the mecha-zombie-Goofy is officially out of his bottle and can't be shoved back in, and because they're such a particularly glorious and exciting spectacle to behold (and seemingly hand-crafted for BB's own Cory Doctorow), the full story:
Anonymous net-scourer extraordinaire Supererogatory has come up for air with his/her biggest prize in recent memory last night: concept art (above) from Fred Gambino of Epic Mickey, the forthcoming (and now more or less confirmed for the Wii) project from Austin-local studio Junction Point.
The project -- a trip through a fantastical dystopian Magic Kingdom -- is being headed by former Deus Ex designer Warren Spector, whose studio was acquired by Disney in 2007 (and who explained why this was such a perfect match in an interview with me at the time). The game was first confirmed to exist last December, when similar images were discovered by artist Gary Glover, including the 'beach attack' above, with its unbelievable Seven Dwarves tea-cup diggers.
Behind the fold, then, more images from both Gambino and Glover, covering rotted Epcots, foreboding Cinderella castles, terrifying scorpion-like mecha-Country Bears, and more -- all of which come with the obvious caveat that they may or may not reflect anything of the current state of the project.
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Yegwa
#1 – 11:41 AM July 29, 2009
This is such a great find. The mecha goofy made me stop and stare for a few more seconds than I gave all the rest. Amazing.
I wonder how (if at all) this is going to translate into the environments and characters of the game.
Inverse Square
#2 – 2:52 PM July 29, 2009
It looks nice. It's sorta been done before by Kingdom Hearts, which had quite a lot of steampunk scenery, but it's quite pretty.
I'm a bit disappointed though. Warren Spector said of this project "When we DO announce what we're doing, half the world's going to think we're crazy and half the world's going to think it's the coolest thing since sliced bread–how great is that?". I was kinda expecting an interesting breakthrough with storytelling, because he's a clever guy who has tackled big things in the past. Now I know that he was talking about an admittedly intriguing but not exactly world-altering environment flavour.
spacesick
#3 – 5:57 PM July 29, 2009
Holy freaking crap. I want to go to there.
rey-o
#4 – 7:35 PM July 29, 2009
This looks promising.
Although, like YEGWA said, hopefully it translates to the actual game.
corbinbusker
#5 – 12:39 AM July 30, 2009
See, this IS crazy though. I mean, how in the world did they convince Disney to let their characters and property be portrayed this way? Personally, if things stay this way for the final product, I'm very, very excited.
failix
#6 – 1:10 AM July 30, 2009
Is this a coincidence? I mean, the only person on this planet I could think of who's fanatic about steampunk and disneyworld at the same time is Cory Doctorow... what do they want from him? :P
pKp
#7 – 8:42 AM July 30, 2009
Yeah, saw them on a French gaming site about a week ago and thought immediately of Cory.
It does look extremely awesome.