#creature crunch

[seeksstaronmewni]

Recently, yesterday (08/20/2020 AD), I found this fantastically animated PC game, John & Ted Mathot’s Creature Crunch (1996), which features amazing artists like...

Dave Wasson (Star vs. the Forces of Evil, The Thing Which Lurked in the Tub, Beany & Cecil)

Carey Yost (The Powerpuff Girls, Uncle Grandpa)

Charlie Bean (The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, The Amazing World of Gumball)

Caesar Martinez (Sym-Bionic Titan)

Chris Savino (Samurai Jack, Grim & Evil/The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Johnny Test, Dexter’s Laboratory)

@henshincyborg (The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Powerpuff Girls)

Sherm Cohen (Suburban Daredevil, SpongeBob)

Marc Perry (Johnny Test, The Ren & Stimpy Show)

the late Tuck Tucker AKA Billy Bob Tucker (2 Stupid Dogs, SpongeBob, Drawn Together)

Shane Glines (Spümcø Comic Book, Batman: The Animated Series)

...you get the picture!

Timing Directors feature Don Judge, Tom Yasumi and Michel Lyman. The digital animation has some limits, but it’s much better than the animation that Cartoon Network Studios projects use these days (you know... tightly-animated “beanmouth” cartoons animated overseas in specifically Korea).

I found this from a now-deleted tweet by Justin M. Morgan from August 19, 2020 (shared in a quote tweet by one of my former mutual followers on Twitter/X). I can’t believe that I never knew about this game! I played Lamb Chops Loves Music, Jump Start Preschool/Kindergarten and The Worlds of Billy as a little kid, but this one never came into my sight until August 20th, 2020. The IMDb page for the game was in need of crediting the artists, so I updated that page--I was born to do it, and I did exactly that: I brought these great artists from my Cartoon Network childhood to the attention of people who love great animation/design and games, including obscure ones such as this.

Here’re the closing credits featuring a super talented, Western American/Canadian animation team for the T-rated 1996 point-and-click PC game.

Tweet version here (Carey Yost liked it!).

Watch the game here (unless you don’t want to spoil it)

[mendelpalace]

Creature Crunch, an animated point-and-click adventure game, published in 1996 by Class6 Interactive & TechToon Ltd., and seemingly the only game these companies published or developed. The plot is about a boy named Wesley, who wanders into the evil Dr. Drod’s mansion and is turned into a monster. In order to escape, he has to eat various objects, which trigger transformations that can help him solve puzzles and deal with the other monsters in the mansion. 

The game was notable for it’s art style, which is very reminiscent of John K of Ren & Stimpy fame, and for featuring voice acting by Martin Short and Eugene Levy. The game’s pretty obscure and a bit hard to get running on modern PCs, and there isn’t even a full English playthrough on Youtube (there are a couple of Spanish playthroughs though). Youtuber The1Nostalgic did upload a partial playthrough, covering the first 20 minutes, here and here. 

I’d really like to give this game a playthrough sometime, as if nothing else it has a really neat style to it. 

[creaturecrunch]

Creature Crunch | a podcast by creaturecrunch

We watch, talk about, and summarize creature features. Then we make a custom stat block for the title monster in D&D 5e.

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[creaturecrunch]

Creature Crunch | a podcast by creaturecrunch

We watch, talk about, and summarize creature features. Then we make a custom stat block for the title monster in D&D 5e.

No new episode today. Instead, enjoy a sneak peek at Critter Kibbles from our Patreon with the episode for Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

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Creature Crunch

We watch, talk about, and summarize creature features. Then we make a custom stat block for the title monster in D&D 5e....

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