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The last game in the episodic Sam & Max trilogy, beautifully remastered! As the intergalactic villains who seek the Devil’s Toybox close in and Max’s psychic abilities grow beyond his control, the Freelance Police will come up against their most frightening adversary yet: the power of Max’s...

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Let’s sing the Friendly Demon Song… and raise money for charity!

Dec 19, 2023

Tomorrow, the Skunkape team and a special guest or two will take over https://www.twitch.tv/gamehistoryorg for a festive holiday stream. 🎄🎅 🎁

First we’ll reveal the winners of our holiday contest. Then we’ll play Sam & Max: Ice Station Santa and chime in with our memories of working on Telltale’s Sam & Max games and Skunkape’s remasters. And the whole time, we’ll be raising money for an incredible cause: the Video Game History Foundation[www.gamehistory.org], a nonprofit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games.

So far, the VGHF has raised about $38K toward their $50K goal winter fundraising goal. Let's help them get over the finish line!

What’s in it for you?

Besides the chance to hear about the development of the Sam & Max games from people who made them, we have donation incentives!

We’ve dug through the vault (aka our closets) to find an eclectic mix of swag to appeal to the discerning adventure game fan. Check out the Tiltify campaign and click Rewards to see the full list.[tiltify.com]

Since announcing the charity stream on Twitter last night, we’ve already raised almost $2,500! Many of our initial rewards have already sold out, but we’re digging deeper and will add more rare artifacts before the stream starts.

We’ll give away three Friendly Demon Song mini-CDs and a signed Sam & Max Save the World vinyl soundtrack during the stream, and we have a few exciting stretch goals planned. What are they? You’ll have to tune in to find out!

We’ll start streaming around 11am PT / 2pm ET / 7pm GMT on December 20, and go for a couple hours. Follow the Video Game History Foundation’s Twitch channel[www.twitch.tv] to get an alert when we go live.

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

So ... about the release date ...

Anything new? Please? Pretty please with cherry on top?

𝕴𝖗𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖓

May 29 @ 5:21am

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Announcing the Sam & Max Holiday Contest

Nov 29, 2023

The past two years, we’ve held a Halloween arts and crafts contest for the Sam & Max community. This is a continuation of a tradition that started at Telltale, and we love seeing what you all come up with. Here are last year’s winners.

Then this year we were so busy working on The Devil’s Playhouse… we forgot about the contest!

Good news, Sam & Max fans. The contest has risen from the dead AND we have news about The Devil’s Playhouse!

The Power of Christmas Compels You

We’re calling this one the “Oops, We Missed Halloween So Let’s Do a Holiday Contest Instead” contest. Here’s how it works: the holiday season is upon us. Steve Purcell is a wonderful person who gave us all the gift of Sam & Max. We really should return the favor, don’t you think?

If you could make Steve a Christmas gift, what would it be? Get creative! The only rules are that your entry has to relate to Sam & Max in some way, and it’s gotta be legal. Nothing that would make Baby Jesus cry (on his birthday, no less).

Send a picture (or other files as appropriate) of your entry to contest@skunkapegames.com by December 17 at 11:59pm (PST). (Copy/paste that address into your email -- if you try clicking it, Steam will give you a "blocked link" message.)

We’ll pick our favorites and reveal them during a holiday Twitch stream the week of the 18th. Before sending in your entry, please review the fine print below.

Two grand prize winners will score a bundle of Sam & Max goodies:

Boss Fight Studio’s brand new Sam & Max Wave 2 action figures (Scuba Max & Ratso[www.bossfightshop.com] and the Rubber Pants Commandos[www.bossfightshop.com])
Limited Run Games’ Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space Collector’s Edition[limitedrungames.com] for PC
A game key for the platform of your choice when Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered launches in Spring 2024

Since we always have trouble picking our favorite entries, there will most likely be a bunch of runners up, too. Those people will also win a Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered game key.

The Fine Print

If your file is too big to play nicely with email, sending us a link to a Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. works too. Also tell us how you want to be credited if we share your entry. (Your name or handle, website URL, Twitter, etc.)
You can submit multiple entries, but only win once. By submitting, you grant us permission to use your entry (with attribution) for promotion on social media, the Skunkape website, and other places where promotion happens.
To select the winners, the Sam & Max Remastered team will hold a democratic vote overseen by a panel of objective nonpartisan observers (okay, maybe not). In case of a tie, Steve Purcell gets the final say.

Wait, what was that? Did you say The Devil’s Playhouse is launching in Spring 2024?!

Yes! We’d originally expected to release Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered this year, but we’ve been keeping quiet until we could be more certain of the date. Now that 2023 is almost over, we can say for sure that the game won’t be out this year. (Sorry!)

But we’re super close, and within a few months you’ll be playing the final game in the episodic Sam & Max trilogy, in all its remastered glory.

Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

Controversal Thoughts

1. Is it wrong of me to headcannon Sam & Max as asexual rather freelance husbands? I know the general conscientious is that they are in love and that Steve Purcell has strongly hinted at this with all the marriage jokes but personally, I think these furry friends are just too passionate and uncontrollable to have a function romantic relationship let alone a romantic one. I do believe Max is 100% gay with what has been presented to us and that regardless of their relationship, Sam & Max are soulmates until ...

thom yorke's lazy eye

May 25 @ 3:04pm

General Discussions

Nutri-Specs

So in the PlayStation 3 version of the game, there was an extra ability you can give Max in Episode 1 after you beat it called the "Nutri-Specs", which you can use on various items, and even characters, to discover their ingredients and other fun little facts. They do absolutely nothing to further the story, but it sure is funny to discover what characters like Grandpa Stinky, Skunk'ape and Superball are made of. Unfortunately, these are not available in the PC release, unless there's a mod available for i...

Spncr

May 10 @ 7:03pm

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[Spoiler Warning] Hey Skunkape, would you guys ever consider making an expansion focusing on Sam getting the psychic abilities instead?

So it was established in both the endings of this season that the Max that comes out of the time machine is one from the past, and in that past Sam had gained electromagnetic powers instead of Max, what happened in that timeline exactly? And would it be worth making an expansion looking into that alternate timeline? Or would it be unnecessary?...

R1ceChr1ss1e

Mar 25 @ 11:26pm

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What will the controls be like?

I've just now learned that Devil's Playhouse moved from point-and-click movement to click-and-drag movement... it was a bit controversial with some players, and praised by others. Back in the day it seems like things were moving towards supporting controllers more, giving mouse gameplay a bit of a backseat in this final season... I love these remasters so far because a lot of options are present-- really solid gamepad support, traditional point-and-click, and click-and-drag movement by, well... clicking ...

Hahasamian

Feb 12 @ 2:03pm

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