Runaway 2, The Moment of Silence Interview
Sia' Garrett' Manzari, 2004-04-21

We have a series of three interviews with dtp marketing manager Christopher Kellner about their series of adventures. The final part is about Runaway 2 and some other adventures dtp will publish in the future.

dtp - Christopher Kellner: At the moment it is scheduled for Xmas 2004 in German speaking territories.

dtp - Christopher Kellner: Yes, and we are sure, that Pendulo will do a great job again!

dtp - Christopher Kellner: We can affect development. We are not only releasing the title, but are the publisher in German speaking territories and thus Pendulos most important partner. After all, the international success of Runaway is based on its success in Germany, as other localizations started only after the game was a hit in Germany.

dtp - Christopher Kellner: We are constantly looking for great adventures. I strongly suggest developers all over the world to contact us for a release in German speaking territories, the most important market in Europe and the third most important of the world. Big international publishers will not really pay attention to adventures, because they have a lot of work to translate the game for all kinds of different territories, which also often doesn't work out very well. We are concentrating on the German version and are investing a lot of professional power, effort and love to detail, not only regarding the localization, but also for PR & marketing. We pay the same big attention to each adventure. At the moment, we have some titles in the pipeline, which I can't talk about yet.

The Moment of Silence is the most ambitious adventure project ever in Germany. It is being developed by the German team House of Tales, who did The Mystery of the Druids (Das Geheimnis der Druiden in Germany) and were quite succesful with that title, both national as international. Moment of Silence will have beautiful graphics in a dark future setting, combined with an exciting story a la Blade Runner or X-Files.

dtp - Christopher Kellner: Unlike other statements, point'n'click is not at all dead, which has been proven by Runaway. Also, 2D grahics are not aged and can still enthuse people, as proven by Black Mirror. It is a fact, that the keyboard control is strongly being critized by adventure fans. I believe, there will be all three options for a long time.