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News by Ellie Gibson

27 October, 2009

Broken Sword creator Charles Cecil has revealed the first hints of what we can expect from his next game.

Cecil was speaking during a Q&A session at the Eurogamer Expo in Leeds, where he was asked what he's currently working on. "It's such a wet thing to say, but I'm not allowed to talk about it," he replied.

"All I can say is, I am working with Dave Gibbons and we're working on a new adventure game. We have a number of ideas for premises and we honestly haven't decided which road we're going to go down. But I love writing and playing adventure games and that is what I'm going to stick to."

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Ellie and Charles Cecil, sitting in a tree.

Cecil and Gibbons previously worked together on Beneath a Steel Sky and the recently released remastered version for iPhone. It's not a huge surprise to learn the two are teaming up again - after all, Cecil hinted as much during a recent interview.

During the same Eurogamer Expo session, Cecil was asked how wannabe game designers should get their ideas noticed. "If you're really brave and really have confidence in your idea, borrow some money and put it out on iPhone because there are no constraints," he said. "But there are 16k apps out there, so it really had better been very good."

Cecil was asked the question by a chap who has just released his first iPhone game, Culica Mobile - now available in the App Store for 59p. You can also pick up Beneath a Steel Sky Remastered there for £2.99.

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Shinetop
27/10/09 @ 14:05
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Not too sure about this. Broken Sword and Beneath A Steel Sky were masterpieces, but Broken Sword 3 was horrible puzzle- and storywise, and that Da Vinci Code game Cecil worked on was worse. Interested, but far from excited.

Still, big names working on adventure games, can't hurt.
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Freek
27/10/09 @ 14:50
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And here I was thinking "why would you design a game with the help of monkeys??".
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27/10/09 @ 15:09
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@Freek: Ask the people who designed Limbo of the Lost.
Shinetop
27/10/09 @ 15:24
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It raises the question though: why does Ellie's age always seem to vary wildly in every picture she's in?
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27/10/09 @ 16:26
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Surely iPhone Apps are bigger than 16k. That's ZX Spectrum territory O_o
Nige
27/10/09 @ 19:16
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Is Dave Cummins still alive? (Original writer for Revolution) - if so, he should do the writing. He had a very dark sense of humour.
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28/10/09 @ 08:56
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It's good to know he's out there, Charles Cecil, making adventure games for all us sinners..
jellyhead
28/10/09 @ 09:12
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Careful Ellie, watch out for AA Gill!
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There is a dearth (not Vader) of point-and-click adventure games on this generation of consoles, so hopefully this will redress it.

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