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by fancyPantsZero 2254 days ago
I want to like this but the part that seems missing is the writing. They have somebody who can make games and who can make pixel art, but do they have somebody who can write seinfeld jokes?
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"What writer? We're talking about a sitcom!"

https://youtu.be/EQnaRtNMGMI?t=108

The guy who makes games did a solo comedy point-and-click, and the guy who can make pixel art has a day job as a “writer/director”, so presumably they can both write competently. Whether they can write Seinfeld jokes is another matter.

I am also quite sure that “maybe some of the folks from the show’s writer room will be interested!” is one of their dreamed-of scenarios.

I think, and I also trust, the author’s take on this, as the art, stylization, etc, on this is all on point.

Some people can respect an original work well enough that it becomes canon, I witnessed this in the Sonic Retro community by watching an incredible C-based Sonic the Hedgehog eventually become the best official Sonic game in years, Sonic Mania.

SEGA’s treatment of the fan developer community, listening to them and apparently even hiring from them is diametrically opposed to, say, Nintendo’s approach of ‘Cease and Desist’.

True, though I like to think the characters are so well-defined in the community's consciousness that it wouldn't be hard to come up with good jokes (e.g. https://mobile.twitter.com/SeinfeldToday)

Besides, it's a show about nothing, how hard could it be? ;)

Hey, it's a game about nothing.
No writers! NOTHING!