I am curious about this one as I loved the show.
FUTURAMA RETURNS WITH ALL NEW ADVENTURES FROM MATT GROENING, DAVID X. COHEN, AND ORIGINAL SHOW WRITERS IN
FUTURAMA: WORLDS OF TOMORROW GAME
Original Cast and Creator to Bring the Emmy-Winning Comedy Series to Life on Mobile Platforms with all New Stories Featuring your Favorite Futurama Characters
February 22, 2017 – GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! TinyCo™, a Jam City Company, and Fox Interactive today announced the development of Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow, a new game coming soon for mobile devices. The game features original content from Futurama creator and Executive Producer Matt Groening, Executive Producer David X. Cohen, and much of the team behind the beloved TV series. TinyCo is also working with Rough Draft Studios – Futurama’s original animators – to bring the show’s trademark humor, signature visual style, and ensemble comedic adventure to mobile players everywhere.
“I love this game because it feels just like Futurama,” said Matt Groening, creator and Executive Producer of Futurama and The Simpsons. “Except now you get to jab the characters in the face.”
The game is being produced in partnership with Fox Interactive, Twentieth Century Fox’s interactive division, and Matt Groening’s Curiosity Company. This partnership continues the strong teamwork that Fox Interactive and TinyCo established with Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, a mobile game based on the hit Fox animated TV series Family Guy. Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff has attracted tens of millions of players while winning multiple awards, and Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow looks to continue in this tradition.
“Futurama is back, bigger and better than ever! Or possibly smaller and equally good. But either way, it’s back!” said David X. Cohen, co-developer with Matt Groening and Executive Producer of Futurama. “We’ve got completely new stories from the original writers, cast, and animators. This is the real Futurama deal.”
Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow is coming soon for mobile devices via the App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore. More information on the game will be released in the near future. For more details on Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow as they are revealed, and to connect with the Futurama fans who will create and play the game, go to www.fb.com/playfuturama, www.twitter.com/playfuturama, and wwwtinyco.com. Additionally, pre-register on Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinyco.futurama or visit www.youwillplayfuturama.com to be notified when the game is released.
About TinyCo
Founded in 2009, TinyCo has developed more than a dozen successful games for the App Store, Google Play Store and Amazon App store with titles such as MARVEL Avengers Academy and FAMILY GUY: The Quest for Stuff. The company’s mission is to make people happy five minutes at a time through incredible, fun and original mobile entertainment. For more information about TinyCo, please visit https://www.tinyco.com.
About JamCity
Jam City is a Los Angeles-based mobile game maker with global reach. Created in 2010 by former MySpace co-founders Chris DeWolfe and Aber Whitcomb, and former 20th Century Fox executive Josh Yguado, Jam City is the creator of 6 of the Top 100 highest grossing games across Apple’s and Google’s US app stores. Its portfolio of titles–which includes Cookie Jam, Panda Pop, Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff and Marvel Avengers Academy–has been downloaded more than 800 million times and is regularly played by nearly 50 million people monthly. Jam City has studios in Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego and Buenos Aires.
Would have been cool if they were developing a Futurama game for consoles/PC. With all the source material available they could have made an epic hack and slash or turn based style rpg game in the same vein as South Park stick of truth. I can see it now with the ability to go to different planets with the planet express ship, picking up different characters from the series along the way to fight by your side. Upgrading your ship giving you the ability to go farther into space and eventually you will fight your final battle with Lrrr on Omicron Perse I 8.
I think this may be the first step. If the game is a hit it will show demand is still there for more of the show so we may get more of those DVD movies like they did before coming back on Comedy Central. It would also get interest in console and PC versions of a game moving as well. Let us not forget that while many video games based on animated shows have been bad, The Stick of Truth was a big hit and showed how it could be done.