Yesterday was international Towel Day, a not-so-publicised event for fans of one Douglas Adams and his most famous series of books about that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, to celebrate the man who wrote those books, as well as the series itself.
To commemorate Towel Day, where fans of the series are reminded (and others encouraged) to carry their towel (a Hitchhiker’s Guide in-joke), Hothead Games have announced that it is developing a title based on The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
You might ask who exactly are Hothead Games… They are better known for their Penny Arcade Adventures and Deadspank titles.
So going on that you sort of get an idea of what the upcoming game might be like.
Not much in the way of, well anything, really, has been released so far. All we know is that it’s happening and that Megadodo Publications will handle the publishing of the title.
“We’re super excited to be involved with such a legendary creation as The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy,” said Hothead’s Joel DeYoung.
“The quirky and hilarious universe that Douglas Adams created became an instant classic for so many. All the hoopiest froods here at Hothead jumped on the chance to work on the project.”
Fans of the series might remember the only other time The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy made it onto a gaming platform, all the way back in 1984 with a text-based interactive game that literally rendered your playthrough unwinnable if you failed to acquire a certain ‘Babel Fish’ within the required amount of turns, right at the start of the game, without ever telling the player how many turns was required nor whether they’d gone past those allotted turns. It got so crazy that at some point, developers Infocom started printing and selling t-shirts that said “I got the Babel Fish!” something I so wish I was around to buy, back then.
The game promised a sequel, but it never came.
That however bears no real connection to this recent announcement, though perhaps it’s about time we can get a proper Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy game to play, instead of having all the cheap references that other games do.
I am the answer…
Location: Durban
Position: Author
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