HOLY CRAP I'M BUYING A NINTENDO REVOLUTION

Professor MacJake

http://www.bobross.com/news.cfm

In Production.
Bob Ross Video Game.

Bob Ross Inc. has announced in March 2006 that they have filed a letter of intent to license to Joseph Hatcher's AGFRAG Entertainment Group to develop exclusively worldwide video/computer games based on Bob Ross' creative, unique and easy to learn painting techniques and TV show properties.

The Bob Ross video game, currently untitled, is planned to be developed for PC, the Nintendo DS handheld & on Nintendo's next-gen system coming later this year, code named Revolution. Release date was not announced. AGFRAG is currently seeking a publisher.

AGFRAG's Director of Development, Joseph Hatcher, has this to say about the announcement:

"I grew up watching Bob Ross on PBS and was always in awe of how quickly and smoothly he made these beautiful paintings, which helped inspire my creativity. There are generations that know Bob Ross and his painting techniques, and I want to share his talent with future generations in a new medium.

The Bob Ross game will utilize the unique inputs that the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Revolution have that can truly immerse the players while they learn to paint like Bob Ross and can play the addictive and fun games that we have planned for the title. I believe that Bob Ross Inc's and AGFRAG Entertainment Group's similar beliefs in independence, creativity, and teaching others will benefit how the game is developed and how the players of all ages will be able to enjoy this game.

I want the community to share with us their favorite Bob Ross shows, painting techniques, and what they’d like to see in the NDS and Revolution games. We want to keep the brush going."

The Joy of Painting is seen on nearly 300 public television stations throughout the United States, and is broadcast in Japan, Mexico, The Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Turkey, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Costa Rica, Canada, Colombia, Iran, Greece and others.

Nukivaj

Holy shit, it's true. This is not an April Fools joke.

Apathy

I like how the threads in my forum are almost always so excited.

Serephel

Bob Ross: All right, we are going to use a fan brush here, and uh why don't you take some hunter green and we are going to put a happy little bush right down over here in the corner there. That'll just be our little secret. And if you tell anyone that that bush is there, I will come to your house, and I will cut you.

Doom Shroom

I hope Bob Ross' hair is part of the deal, too.

Amoeba Boy

It better be, around 75% of his power is derived from his hair.

While I was fairly certain there was going to be at least one painting game for the revolution, I had no idea it would carry such a powerful license with it.

god

am i to assume you might not have been planning on buying one already?

Silverward

This is like...one of the only games my mom would ever want to play!

Serephel

Well, Nintendo's been talking for a while about redefining the gaming market with their Revolution. I guess this is what they're talking about.

What a cool idea. I really want to play it.

god

at least we know the revolution will be awesome for shooters, RTS', and painting

X'o'Lore

Can't forget fishing and any number of other neat little things. I can't help but think the revolution will be a boon to simpler little mini game type things and reinvented arcade games. It'll be like a nivanna for old skool games and party style games. Considering the likelyhood of a much lower pricetag, I can imagine that whether a person gets a box or a station, they will all also get a revo.
...dangnabit, I want one.

stef

I am SO, SO HAPPY to find that this was not the april fool's joke I thought it was. Viva la Ross!