On August 14, Sam & Max will lose their minds in... THE DEVIL'S PLAYHOUSE! The final chapter of Telltale's Sam & Max trilogy has been lovingly remastered by a small team that worked on the original game.
Coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation!
Sam & Max are coming back to
@PlayStation
on September 29th! The remasters of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, and (for the first time on PlayStation) Sam & Max Save the World are both headed your way in just four weeks. See you then!
Hey
@THQNordic
, do you guys have any idea what happened to the Sam & Max costume JoWood commissioned for Comic-Con 2007? If you ever come across that nightmare in a crate somewhere please let us know.
Sometimes you find an old Ryan Jones concept sketch from The Devils Playhouse production and remember the brain jar was always supposed to be full of green water, so you add it.
According to his time card in Chariots of the Dogs, today’s Sam’s birthday. We doubt Sam would really want to be the center of attention on his birthday, but all the same:
Would it enrage you to hear that last night, 24 hours ago, we had The Devil’s Playhouse remaster up at a demo station at GDC? If so, sorry. But we did. And it was great! Thanks to everyone who ran into us. Sorry to the rest of you, we sort of forgot we were doing it. 😬
In 2010 during the original development of The Devil's Playhouse,
@shaunfinney
was capturing gameplay footage for an early edit of the announcement trailer and didn't realize he had Pandora radio streaming in the background. Somehow it all synced up too perfectly.
Here's a nice wallpaper of last week's Devil's Playhouse announcement thumbnail image. We keep looking at it so we figured you might want to too. See you August 14!
On August 14, Sam & Max will lose their minds in... THE DEVIL'S PLAYHOUSE! The final chapter of Telltale's Sam & Max trilogy has been lovingly remastered by a small team that worked on the original game.
Coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation!
Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered comes to Nintendo Switch August 14!
Need to get caught up? The first two adventures are on the eShop with free demos:
🌎 Save the World:
🛸 Beyond Time and Space:
You: Hey what's the status of the Sam & Max Devil's Playhouse remaster? Any news?
Us, sweating and typing furiously as our CPUs try to boil themselves alive in their cases:
Hope your weekend is going well! We got a request for the Save The World alley artwork as a phone wallpaper and it seemed wasteful to only give it to ONE person, so now here it is for any of the rest of you left on this website.
This is dangerous to do under any circumstance, but what the heck, it’s the weekend: let’s take a very quick look at what life is like inside Max’s brain in The Devil’s Playhouse remastered…
The Devil's Playhouse was the conclusion of Telltale's episodic Sam & Max trilogy, and it's a huge game! So huge, it's taken us longer than we expected to remaster. It's turning out great though, and we are so excited to share it with you early next year! For now, here's a peek:
Somehow it's been ten years since Telltale's The Walking Dead premiered! It feels like yesterday and like one million years ago.
We snuck a little homage to Clementine in to the Sam & Max remasters: You can deliver a CD to her house in Night of the Raving Dead, and she says hi!
In addition to cleaning up the environments, we worked with Steve Purcell to fine-tune the character designs, including bringing Flint Paper and kid Sam and Max closer to their original comic book designs, and giving Jurgen back his keys, because why not?
Long ago, we used to run a yearly Halloween themed Sam & Max fan art contest. This year… it came back.
Behold the SAM & MAX HALLOWEEN CONTEST 2021! Make Halloween Sam & Max art and send it to contest
@skunkapegames
.com! We’ll share our favorites Nov 1!
We're making sure the Sam & Max remasters are literally everywhere: Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, in the walls of your house, intruding on your every waking thought, and PC!
And now if you buy both games together, you get them for 25% off! Read on to find out how👇
We’re hearing reports from some of you that the Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space collector’s editions are starting to arrive! And it looks like they turned out great.
To remaster Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, we dove deep into the original 2007 source assets, upped the resolution of the models and textures, re-encoded the audio, and re-lit the whole thing from scratch.
Listen to Sam & Max the way your grandparents did: On a brand new deluxe three-album vinyl release, available now from the (also) brand new Skunkape Store! (The vinyl also includes the full digital soundtrack in MP3 and FLAC, perfect for grandpa's iPod.)
The past two years we’ve held a Halloween arts and crafts contest for the Sam & Max community. This is a continuation of a tradition that started at Telltale and we love seeing what you all come up with. Below are last year’s winners. This year Halloween came and went… but wait!
Halloween has come and gone, but the winners of this year’s Sam & Max Halloween contest will last forever! (Well, until next year, anyway.)
We’ve sifted through all the entries, voted, argued, voted some more, and landed on two grand prize winners and ten runners-up.
Thanks for noticing! :) We updated for the first time in a looong time, and that includes a look at the new Devil’s Playhouse box art, and a more unified “complete trilogy” look for the other two games.
We'll have more to share about The Devil's Playhouse Remastered very soon. Until then, enjoy this quick look at one of the streets in Sam & Max's neighborhood that got a big makeover as part of its remastering pass:
🎃 Hey, kids! It’s time for the 2nd Annual Skunkape Sam & Max Halloween Contest (loosely based on the very spooky and haunted Telltale "Do What You Will" Halloween contests of the mid-aughts). What does that mean? It means we want your fan art, and we’ll give you prizes for it!
A quick music post for you! Jared at
@BayAreaSound
had series saxophonist Jordan Wardlaw in the studio a couple weeks back, to add a little live playing to some key Devil’s Playhouse moments:
Been seeing these Freelance Police storyboards bouncing around the ol timeline today. They’re by
@grickle
aka Graham Annable! He worked at LucasArts, then was Telltale’s first art director, and created Puzzle Agent. He’s since made movies (like The Boxtrolls!) and is very fancy.
Oh wow. Digging through boxes and found a whole stash of storyboards I did long ago (2004?) for the never published but incredible Sam & Max: Freelance Police game from the now defunct LucasArts.
#memories
Looking for a last-minute gift idea for the Sam & Max fan in your life? Both seasons of our remastered Sam & Max games are 25% off on PC, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation!
(Note: the Sam & Max fan in your life can be you. No judgment here.)
A tiny update today: All the original Sam & Max episodes that you've had sitting in your Steam library for a decade now have box art! (Season Two was the last one without art, but got it this weekend.)
To remaster Sam & Max Save The World, we went back to the original 2006 source assets, upped the resolution of models and textures, re-encoded the audio, and re-lit the entire game from scratch. Plus we worked with
@BayAreaSound
to add a little new music!
The Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space Original Soundtrack is now available on Steam and Bandcamp! (It'll be heading to more platforms soon.) Listen now:
🎵Bandcamp:
🎵Steam:
Sam is a six-foot canine detective with a love of justice. Max is a hyperkinetic goofball with a taste for mayhem. Together, they can solve ANY case—I think.
Sam & Max Save the World is coming to PS4 physical! Pre-orders start Friday, 6/14—wishlist now:
Sam & Max Save The World Remastered comes out December 2nd! If you bought the original Sam & Max from Telltale (or Steam or GOG), you can upgrade to the new release for 50% off!
Learn how to convert your old Telltale purchase to a Steam or GOG copy:
As the year draws to a close we want to thank everyone who's played Sam & Max Save The World on Switch and PC! Your screenshots, videos, and posts sharing your experiences have been a welcome bright spot in the end of our 2020.
The Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space soundtrack is starting to take root deep in the cracks of the Internet. You can already find it in the walls of YouTube Music, and it's spreading to Spotify in the next couple days.
The original release of Sam & Max Season One is back on Steam, as free DLC for Sam & Max Save the World! If you're curious to see what the original was like, or are just feeling nostalgic, now you can play whatever version you'd like from one launcher.
Through May 30, both of our Sam & Max remasters are 30% off in the Game Over, T1D! Sale on Steam:
As part of this sale, Skunkape will make a donation to
@JDRF
to support their efforts to find new treatments and cures for type 1 diabetes.
The original Sam & Max Season Two episodes are finally available as free DLC inside Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space on Steam. Now you can do your Freelance Policing 2008 style if you want! Thanks everyone who patiently waited for these to get added in.
All of these remasters have been a labor of love; it's an amazing opportunity to get to revisit games we worked on together over a decade ago! The Devil's Playhouse remaster was both the biggest challenge – it's a huge and interwoven game – and the one we're the most proud of.
Sam & Max have invaded your local Best Buy! For a limited time you can actually walk into a retail store and buy a copy of a Sam & Max game – in this case, a copy of Save the World for Switch, with a limited retail-only cover!
In these modern times we have way more effects at our disposal and can, you know, actually make things look shiny in the engine now, so we went back and rebuilt Max Mode to look more like the original concept art from 2010.
Another ancient clip from the Sam & Max development camcorder archives. This one's from a recording session with David Nowlin during production on Culture Shock. The video ends with an accurate portrayal of VO sessions, when he has to say the same simple word five different ways.
4Zae is a charity stream in honor of a
#TeamFortress2
player who passed away due to type 1 diabetes. Zae always wore a Max hat in the game.
If they raise $3K they’ll give away a Max hat! This is a rare TF2 item that came w/early purchases of Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse.
When Max finds a toy that shows him the future, he attracts the attention of a host of villains from across the galaxy hellbent on acquiring the magical Toys of Power. Now Sam & Max must face their scariest adversary yet: the power of Max’s mind.
Looking for a holiday gift for the Sam & Max fan in your life? The Sam & Max Save the World soundtrack deluxe vinyl LP is still shipping to most of the world before Christmas! Get yours at
If you bought the original Sam & Max Season One on Steam or GOG, you can get the remastered version for 50% off! The discount should be waiting for you if you're logged in to either store with an account that owns the old version.
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space Remastered will be available December 8, 2021 for Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PC. We'll have more to share between now and then, but or now enjoy a few more screenshots!
#SamAndMax
As August 14th approaches, keep an eye out for discounts on Sam & Max Save the World and Beyond Time and Space in all stores. And in the meantime, we'll be here passing the days with you, posting more Sam & Max ephemera!
The Sam & Max Save The World Soundtrack is here, featuring five new tracks by Jared Emerson-Johnson and
@BayAreaSound
to go with the remastered game! Get it in MP3 and FLAC on
Bandcamp:
Steam:
GOG:
A few people have asked about whether the flashing lights seen in the trailer can be disabled. Yes! Beyond Time and Space Remastered will have an Accessibility Settings menu that lets you disable flashing lights across the game (and toggle optional skipping of the driving games).
🎷 Sam & Max Save the World's deluxe 3-disc vinyl soundtrack is available and shipping! If you want a big picture of Sam and Max playing musical instruments in your home, with three discs of analog music inside, act now:
Both Sam & Max remasters are 33% off in the Game Over, T1D Steam Sale! If you haven't played these yet, now's your chance to get caught up before The Devil's Playhouse comes out... 👀
Sale page:
Happy birthday to Sam & Max Season One, which premiered 15 years ago today with "Culture Shock!"
Celebrate by watching this excellent remaster of its original trailer, made by "Max's Inventory"
@oopsie_la
Secret update just for you (no one can read twitter replies afaik): the game is done, and is now working its way through the console certification process. We’ll have more info and a release date very soon.
Ever wished Sam & Max cost less? Good news! Sam & Max Save the World is on SALE!
20% off from the Nintendo eShop through May 31st - North America: & Europe:
20% off from Steam for the next couple of days -