Destructoid Interview - 16 Jan 2024
"The Brothers Chaps of Homestar Runner fame talk about Videlectrix and the future of good graphics" is an interview with The Brothers Chaps published to Destructoid on January 16, 2024.
After the release of Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate, Zoey Handley interviewed the brothers about Videlectrix and their future endeavors in good graphics.
Selected Transcript
ZOEY HANDLEY: Is Videlectrix going to remain focused on saving (and expanding) the substantial back catalog of Homestar Flash games, or will we get brand-new games in the future?
THE BROTHERS CHAPS: We have a buncha ideas for both approaches. It was really fun making and expanding Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate for Steam/Itch. And it’d be cool to make Peasant's Quest 2 or a console-playable version of Stinkoman 20X6. But it would be equally cool to make something totally new like Blistergeist 3D or a Thy Dungeonkid platformer.
ZOEY: Do you want to tease us with anything? Like, maybe a fancy HD remaster of Peasant's Quest?
THE BROTHERS CHAPS: Here’s a few in-progress nuggets that might become our next releasable project.
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Thy Dungeonkid – a Gameboy-style textroidvania platformer/point n' click hybrid. |
Peasant's Quest 2 – CGA sequel to Peasant's Quest featuring Rather Dashing's sister Fairly |
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Some Kinda 3D Powered By The Cheat First Person Horror-ish Game |
A bonus Roomisode/Elevatorsode featuring Dangeresque Too |
Fun Facts
Remarks
- The article frequently references the Homestar Runner Wiki, linking text to provide context for history, toons and games, or vernacular.
Inside References
Oh wow! He's like a crow person.
- Handley refers to the Basement of the Brothers Strong-esque wall pattern seen in Making of Email 100 as "stripèd".
- The Brothers Chaps joke about having to move offices after their last one "got un-depressio'd".
- Strong Bad is jokingly referred to as "Stong Band".
- A console-playable version of Stinkoman 20X6 and "Blistergeist 3D" are teased as potential future projects.
- Thy Dungeonkid was first seen in Happy 20th Trogday!.
- The game is a spinoff of the Thy Dungeonman series.
- A CGA-style sequel to Peasant's Quest featuring Fairly Dashing was advertised by The Poopsmith in Halloween Hide & Seek.
- The "crow person" Fairly Dashing is speaking to resembles Cranjegg, a Keeper of Trogdor.
- Calling the Dangeresque Too bonus Roomisode an "Elevatorsode" due to its setting recalls Roomisode 2 being called an "intersectionisode" during its development.
Real-World References
- The Brothers' fondness for the Atari 2600 is discussed, particularly commenting that it is always connected to the TV in their office.
- "Textroidvania" is a portmanteau of the game subgenres text-based and Metroidvania.
- The Peasant's Quest 2 screenshot is in 4-color CGA graphics.
- The original Peasant's Quest Preview claimed the game would be in CGA, a discrepency the Brothers Chaps noted in the DVD commentary. A true CGA version of Peasant's Quest was seen in the fake autoplay thumbnail for Disk 4 of 12 - World Games.
Fast Forward
- Roomisode X would be released months later on May 24, 2024.
