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Adventure Time, for those not in the know, is a profoundly weird, sometimes disturbing cartoon. It is a world where dogs shift shape at will, where bears throw kickass raves inside the bellies of giant monsters.
There’s an Adventure Time game on the way in November for Nintendo 3DS, but it doesn’t look too weird – more like a standard action game with some role-playing influences. Fun, but where’s the insanity?
From Sept. 14 to 16, nearly 700 game designers participated in Fantastic Arcade's Adventure Time Gamemaking Frenzy,” an online “game jam” organized by indie developers in Texas and officially blessed by the show’s creators. In 48 hours, they churned out around 100 out-of-the-box game concepts as unpredictable as the show.
Brandon Boyer, co-organizer of the Frenzy and founder of Venus Patrol, says that both he and Adventure Time’s creator Pendleton Ward wanted to see some “crazier” games based on the series. After some pushing, Cartoon Network gave the event its blessing.
To get developers from around the world feeling like they were part of a big event, Frenzy introduced the Beautiful Mess Organizer, named after a character on the show who happens to be a living handheld game machine. It allowed developers to chat with each other as they worked, then immediately push their creations live.
Here are 8 of the most intriguing games that emerged from the two-day hackathon.
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