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Toonstruck
Sign in to saveToonstruck is a graphic adventure video game developed by Burst Studios, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and released in 1996 for DOS. The game uses hand-drawn imagery and animated characters, but the protagonist Drew Blanc (played by Christopher Lloyd) is represented as a video-captured live action character interacting with the cartoon world around him. In the game, Blanc is transported into the cartoon world he created while suffering from a creative block. Blanc is accompanied by his animated sidekick Flux Wildly.
Game data
- Released
- 1996-11-03
- User rating
- 3.16 / 5
- Genres
- Adventure, Puzzle
- Platforms
- PC, macOS, Linux
- ESRB
- Everyone 10+
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Toonstruck is an adventure game released in 1996 in which, although all the imagery is drawn and scanned into the game, the protagonist Drew Blanc (played and voiced by Christopher Lloyd) is an actual video-captured representation of the actor (the name is a pun, since the character has "drawn a blank" on coming up with a new idea for a character). Drew's sidekick, crudely named Flux Wildly, is a drawn character voiced by Dan Castellaneta. Toonstruck also features scan-line compressed FMV and was also one of the first video games to include stock music from APM Music, notably the classic "S…
- Released
- 1996
- Genres
- Point-and-click, Adventure
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Burst Studios
- Publisher
- Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Ltd., Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- Plot
- Development
- Writing
- Design and animation
- Casting and sound
- Release
- Reception
- Recognition
- Cancelled sequel
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Toonstruck is a graphic adventure video game developed by Burst Studios, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and released in 1996 for DOS. The game uses hand-drawn imagery and animated characters, but the protagonist Drew Blanc (played by Christopher Lloyd) is represented as a video-captured live action character interacting with the cartoon world around him. In the game, Blanc is transported into the cartoon world he created while suffering from a creative block. Blanc is accompanied by his animated sidekick Flux Wildly.
Conceived in 1993 as a game geared towards children, Toonstruck was later re-written to be more adult-oriented. Virgin Interactive invested huge amounts of money into the game, which ended up costing in excess of US$8 million. In addition to Lloyd, the cast includes several well-known actors and voice actors such as Dan Castellaneta, Tim Curry, David Ogden Stiers and Dom DeLuise. Toonstruck features scan-line compressed FMV that is composited with hand-drawn animated sequences produced by Burst, Nelvana and Rainbow Animation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Toonstruck” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.