Hello everyone,
We’ve been busily working on a new title here at Relentless Software. It’s called Blue Toad Murder Files and it’s coming to PSN in December. It’s the first time we’ve self-published a game so we’re really looking forward to it. Blue Toad is an episodic murder mystery game exclusively for the PlayStation Network.
Jem came down to our studio in Brighton a couple of weeks ago and put the game through its paces. He also interviewed us, as you can see below. We’ll be back on the PlayStation Blog soon with some more info and a new trailer, but if you’d like to find out a bit more before then you can head over to our website at www.bluetoadmurderfiles.co.uk.
We’re around in the comments to chat about the game (or, in fact, anything!) So come say “hi!”
Thanks!
David & Andy
38 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:04 pm by Jetamo
Murder Mystery type game. Not enough of those around, by golly!
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:06 pm by ER-nut
What is your favorite thing about the BUZZ series?
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:13 pm by David Amor
I like the fact that we’ve made it a game that anyone can play.
I also like an animation we did in Buzz!: The BIG Quiz where Buzz acts like he’s a dog with worms.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:06 pm by V_Ben
awesome, i’ve been looking forward to this game since edge previewed it! I love old-school adventure games, and this sounds like it’s styled like a hybrid of adventure and puzzle games
im assuming it will be priced fairly, considering it’s episodic nature. will you be offering a bundle price if i buy the whole season at once? i plan to do that if you do
also, looking forward to the new buzz! that’s a firm favorite in my house
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:14 pm by David Amor
We’ll be pricing fairly. We’re at £6.50 for the first episode or £10 for the first two. Not sure what that is in euros.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:09 pm by john7doe_
This seems like a great concept, grew up on adventures like Monkey Island and Broken Sword, was wondering will the games by similar to these or more text based? (which I also love
)
P.S. any word on pricing? if they were substantial games I wouldn’t mind spending the same as the Penny Arcade adventures.
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:17 pm by David Amor
Love those old adventure games too. It’s less text heavy than those as there aren’t long, branching conversations. It’s more about paying attention to what they’re saying and doing, like an Agatha Christie drama.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:14 pm by Ezzonz1
What is the rating going to on this game ?? i mean 12, 16, 18??? haha
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:20 pm by David Amor
We had some bad language that we got a slap on the wrists about and have since changed. I think we have a PEGI 7 now, which is pretty good considering there’s a MURDER in one of the opening scenes.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:15 pm by V_Ben
wow. thats a great price! i’ll stock up on psn cards specially
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:17 pm by Phuquit
Do you think perhaps Jem was had just finished a chat with mary J before that interview? I think so….
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:21 pm by DANNY3194
Blue Toad Murder Files what a name! This will be purchased by me for sure
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:21 pm by ghosthunter68
Looks interesting. Might be worth fixing the inks on your blog post.
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:23 pm by David Amor
Good spot. Jem? Help!
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:59 pm by Jem Alexander
Sorry about that! All fixed.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:22 pm by john7doe_
observational gameplay seems so novel… that statement has just sold me on the concept completely
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:22 pm by cedequak
The link to the game does not match. A good game. 44 days for sale.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:26 pm by YobRenoops
Played the first Episode at the Eurogamer Expo up at Leeds. Its great fun, and for completing it with 7 golds and 3 silvers (and unlocking 3 trophies) I got a t-shirt! Woop Can’t wait for the rest of the episodes!
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:28 pm by David Amor
Good score YobRenoops. And did you work out whodunnit? NO SPOILERS!
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:33 pm by YobRenoops
Yep nailed the whodunnit. It was tricky because Eurogamer was loud and I couldn’t hear some of the chat but I got it. Oh, I appreciated the subititles through the game however some of the puzzles are talking ones but you don’t get subtitles for some reason, which made it hard answering the questions in a very noisy eurogamer hall (hence 2 of the silvers!), if you could get subtitles added to that as well that’d be ace. I won’t spoil the puzzles but if you want to get hold of me to tell you can PSN me.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:40 pm by David Amor
I know the puzzles you’re referring to. One of them I’d guess is in the Mayor’s office, which is my favourite of Episode 1.
I don’t know what Jade has planned regarding subtitles. Regardless, I’m hoping that it will usually played in a less aurally-challenging venue than the Eurogamer Expo.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:41 pm by almighty-slayer
Good to see Relentless trying new stuff! I look forward to giving this a try mate, i think it is looking very very promising! Can’t wait. The very best of luck, hope it goes well
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:42 pm by YobRenoops
The other one was at the station. Anyway, really looking forward to release, hate to say it (as I’m tight) but it’ll be day 1 for me!
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:46 pm by NickDude
I read about this in Edge. Its interesting, but how big is each episode going to be (1.5gb+)? If so, I wont be buying because I have a horrible internet connection.
Also, do you plan a future BD release?
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:50 pm by David Amor
Last I looked it was about 500MB for Episode 1. Maybe our engineers can squeeze that down a little further though. Interesting to hear that filesize is still an important issue.
No plans currently for a BD release.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:46 pm by Agamer2006
Quick Question about the new Buzz, I know its off topic but I for some reason I cant play My Buzz Quizes on my own. Are you able to play them on your own in Quiz World.
Ps Looking Forward to your Game
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:53 pm by David Amor
Not sure about playing MyBuzz quizzes in single player. Caspar looks after all things Buzz! here. Ask him over at the official European forum. Hope that helps.
http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board?board.id=bEN_g_gen_buzz
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:53 pm by Psicojacorral
Will be more languages than English on the game? Is it in Spanish? Thank you and good job!!
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 6:36 pm by David Amor
Just English for the time being. It will be available on the Spanish PSN store though.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 5:54 pm by NickDude
The smaller the file size, the better. I wanted to buy Ratchet & Clank Booty off the psn but it was 3GB, so that was a no no (luckily it came out on BD anyway). I have a 1.5mb (if Im lucky) connection, so it would take hours to download.
So yeah, the smaller the better.
And as you have the Buzz home space, are you looking at getting a home space for this?
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 6:38 pm by David Amor
I’d love to make a Home space for Blue Toad but I think the team here needs to finish Season 1 first.
Jade was keen on a Murder in the Dark space. I have no idea how that would work, but it sounds like it would be fun.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 6:31 pm by Top_Slacker
Played this at the Eurogamer expo and had a lot of fun… I got lost in Lady Snobishs’ Bush!!!
One question I do have which I forgot to ask at the expo is regarding replayability; is the experience different every time? So, different puzzles to solve, different murderer etc
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 6:33 pm by Raider197
Sounds great, usually I’m not into these kind of games but I don’t know, something about this interests me
Good price too! How long is each episode on average?
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 6:39 pm by David Amor
Our focus groups seem to finish in about 90 minutes, but it depends on how difficult you find the puzzles.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 6:44 pm by HazelAM
sounds interesting, how do you make a game like this co-op though, says it’s co-operative on the official site?
sounds like something in the style of say a monkey island game.
Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 7:24 pm by David Amor
It’s co-op in a number of ways. You alternate between players when going around the village and solving puzzles, but perhaps more importantly the gameplay is often better solved co-operatively.
We’ve left it up to people to decide whether they want to play co-operatively or against each other. In our focus groups people have tended to play co-operatively until the final whodunnit at the end of the game.
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 7:16 pm by steven_dutch
I’ve been waiting for a game like this on the PS3.
Hope this will revive the old-school (point and click) adventures genre a bit.
Aaah, the good old days of Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, Larry….
Good work guys!
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 7:22 pm by Bonyman
Sounds great….. I loved those monkey island/broken sword games so i’ll definately check this out.
The price sounds good too €7.99 approx.
Don’t discard that ‘Murder in the Dark’ idea…. sounds interesting and having a Home space is a good advertising platform for you…..but you probably know that anyway
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 7:34 pm by FGras
hey, thats a singstar microphone!
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 7:43 pm by almighty-slayer
Haha…I didn’t notice that!!
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 8:13 pm by DNAtlantic
I GOT THEIR FREE T-SHIRT AT THE EURO GAMER EXPO! lol
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Posted on 2 November, 2009 at 9:38 pm by Bullitt001
Please make it so we can play it on the PSP too!
Looks like a fun game to play on the go!
It’s about time somebody started to use the interconnectivity of these
2 platforms!
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Posted on 3 November, 2009 at 1:15 am by Berae
It looks fun!
i have a question… Will the new Buzz world be available in english only in north america?
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Posted on 3 November, 2009 at 7:53 am by jashiu_pl
Sorry for the OT but are there any estimates on when will the new Buzz arrive in other regions? I’m hoping that it’ll be available in Poland for this Xmas. Hope it makes it cause I need my Buzz fix…:)
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Posted on 3 November, 2009 at 8:28 am by fleinn
@Phuquit: ..imo, mornings are overrated.
Question: is it a design where you choose between which people you talk to – or will you go through the set pieces, and pick some options afterwards? How does the investigation happen, I guess is what I’m wondering.
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Posted on 3 November, 2009 at 10:54 am by taurus82
Ha! So there ARE PS3 owners (besides myself) who are interested in playing point n click/graphic adventures on PS3!
So maybe Sony can now get their ar$es in-gear and have Telltale Games’ Tales of Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Wallace & Gromit etc released on PS3!
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Posted on 3 November, 2009 at 11:18 am by sweetasman01
David Amor, your company released a game called Brain of New Zealand on PS3, PS2 and PSP. The game did NOT have a SINGLE question related to New Zealand. I WANT MY MONEY BACK for the miss leading advertising of your game that said it had hundreds of New Zealand related questions when in fact it was the same as Brain of Australia and Brain of Great Britain
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Posted on 3 November, 2009 at 11:40 am by Lee_and_Nomi
Is there going to be an option to purchase the whole season up front?
Also I really hope you can put these out every 2 weeks, max. Any long and I just can see it catching on as a ‘season’
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Posted on 3 November, 2009 at 11:41 am by zonaw
I would like to point out that subtitles would be rally good selling point outside the UK at SCEE region.. There are plenty of us who has English as a second or third language and thus have considerable difficulties understanding spoken English (especially if it’s fast or has regional twang in it).
So for the rest of us, please have the opinion for full subtitling.
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Posted on 3 November, 2009 at 4:24 pm by tomsau
it was looking GREAT at eurogamer
congrats, definitely will be playing through this 
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Posted on 3 November, 2009 at 5:14 pm by wiktorclunk
yes
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