Animation World News
Interactive & Internet
Popeye's Brilliant New Role. Brilliant Digital Entertainment has signed an agreement
with King Features Syndicate to develop and produce three interactive games
for children based on the Popeye animated series and character.
The titles will be packaged as part of Brilliant Digital's "Multipath
Movies," a new digital entertainment line to be distributed over the
Internet, on CD-ROM, as television programming and on home video. The concept
of Multipath Movies is for the viewer to be able to create hundreds of
possible plot alternatives and choices, as in the Choose Your Own Adventure
books style, to which Brilliant Digital has acquired the exclusive rights
from Bantam Doubleday Dell Books to develop for this medium. Brilliant
has already formed a three-year strategic alliance with Packard Bell NEC
to distribute Multipath Movies over the World Wide Web, and a joint venture
agreement with Crawfords Productions to distribute the television formats.
The first Popeye title, Popeye and the Quest for the Woolly Mammoth,
is targeted for a late 1997 release. For a detailed history of Popeye's
development from comics to animation, see Mark Langer's Article "Popeye
From Script to Screen" in the July issue of Animation World Magazine.
Nightmare Ned Game In The Works. Recently downsized Disney Interactive
is preparing for a September 1997 release of the Nightmare Ned CD-ROM
game, developed and produced through their exclusive output deal/partnership
with Glendale-based Creative Capers Entertainment. Originally conceived
as an interactive game concept by Terry and Sue Shakespeare and David Molina,
the property was adapted and released as a TV series which began airing
on ABC Saturday morning in April. The audience which has been established
through the series should boost sales of the game, which, at an estimated
retail price of $35-$40, is in the high end of the price range for children's
game titles.
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