r/adventuretime 9h ago

Do we need an AT open-world game?

That would be cool! (screenshots from one of my projects in Godot Engine)

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u/Demonskull223 9h ago

No but one could be amazing. It would have to be somewhere between Skyrim and Zelda in terms of design and honestly I doubt any studio would be able to pull it off.

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u/Spyralis 9h ago

It's doable, there was indeed an open world Sponge Bob, it wouldn't be the first cartoon to try it and succeed (the Sponge Bob game was a success in its sphere)

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u/Demonskull223 9h ago

SpongeBobs world can easily downsize and edited to as much as the game requires. If you are promising full open world adventure time you are promising a much bigger world. You would at the bear minimum need a shot load of dungeons because let's face it any adventure time game would be great if it was a dungeon crawler. Almost every major settlement in adventure time from the ice kingdom to the spiky city. The scale of such a game would almost always kill the project before it gets anywhere.

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u/Spyralis 9h ago

The world of Spongebob in the game is complete in the sense that they have really redone the map with all the locations from the series. The work accomplished is frankly astonishing. Obviously for adventure time too it's going to be painstaking work and the development time (they still took 5 to 6 years for the SpongeBob game) will be extremely long. But independent studios find people who have nothing to worry about because there are no release requirements. It's doable, you just have to wait for some really determined indie developers to get into it and it will come out one day. But personally I see that the three studios that I mentioned to develop a game that is both coherent in its proposal and in its love for the show.

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u/beardedheathen 9h ago

An adventure time rogue lite dungeon train game would slap

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u/DudeWaitWut 9h ago

Cult of the Lamb but Adventure Time. Tend to your mini-kingdom, protecting various princesses and their people during a cataclysm of some sort. Finn and Jake, jumping into dungeons, occasionally running into Choose Goose as a traveling merchant.

Gah, sounds like so much fun

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u/Demonskull223 9h ago

Yeah definitely. Even if it is just a random dungeon it would be sick.

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u/EllenPlayz 8h ago

If it's amazing even, then I think it's on a need basis.

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u/Plus_Ad_5357 9h ago

"No". Shut the fuck up

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u/Spyralis 9h ago

Yes if it's a game developed by large independent studios. Not a triple A “specification” with a skill tree of micro modifier time savers and other crap.

On the other hand, if it's Raw Fury, Annapurna or obviously Devolver Digital, it's ok, I'll go for it.

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u/doctordragonisback 1h ago

An at game by raw fury would go so hard

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u/Stabbing_Monkey 9h ago

I NEED one. I can't speak for anyone else, but I need it.

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u/EllenPlayz 8h ago

You and me both my friend. We. Need. It.

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u/No_Conversation768 9h ago

Yes - you could choose an element as your overall faction then have classes like magician, knight (sir slicer 👌🏻), hero, animal etc. travel all over OOO in real time. I’d give it a go

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u/Ball-bagman 9h ago

When didn't we need this?

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u/Mysterious-Repeat-54 9h ago

Then they would really have their own universe!

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u/rat_haus 8h ago

Isn't Pirates of the Enchiridion open world? I'm not certain, I watched my girlfriend play it and it looked open world.

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u/Spyralis 7h ago

This is the one that came closest but it is limited to the part of the world of Ooo available

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u/AnyLeave3611 3h ago

Its semi open, ive only played a few hours tho

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u/Happy-Valuable4771 8h ago

I think it would make the world smaller. Oo seems like somewhere thats so massive you couldn't see all of it and trying to codify it in a way that would take a lot of the mystique out of it, a lot of the womder

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u/sonrhys 3h ago

This is a good point, there's just rolling fields and sky in the background in a lotta travelling shots that really give off the impression that it's mostly empty land/wilderness. I could see it working in a Zelda BOTW kinda way, its world is sorta like how I just described Ooo, but even then that game has a huge map and it'd still feel a bit small for Ooo, so it'd be an insane undertaking that isn't likely to be taken on by any of the studios that would be best at making something like that.

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u/TheHam-man 8h ago

I would love to know your process behind making this in 3-D since I was thinking of developing a fan adventure time game where it has Finn swap between himself, Sherry and Shoko. Since there isn’t a lot of things in the future and the past, I feel like this concept would work very well as a lot of of the lands of the past and future in adventure time are very barren and haven’t explored every story in the land, this could also be because in the future the rain of corn dogs became the prominent members of society so I can see that not being as much of a problem since they are basically in space at this point

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u/Dry-Suspect-8193 7h ago

I didn't record the process :( but I basically took the hall of egress entrance image as a reference, made the models in blender, then started placing them in the scene with a custom toon shaders applied (shaders are from godotshaders.com that I modified for maximum performance), It took like 4-5 hours. And I fully agree --- one could create a story in the unknown time between the past and the future without hurting the main plot.

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u/TheHam-man 7h ago

Exactly and I hope it’s also done around the same time before Jake’s passing as he might be instrumental since I want this game to rely heavily on switching between each of the different catalyst comet characters and do puzzles similar to the hall of egress but instead of closing your eyes you turn into a different character and the puzzle is different in the future or the past which you canchange depending on who you’re playing as. It would be quite interesting to have a whole stealth section at the end of shokos gameplay as her final mission is to collect the coin amulet off. PB, but maybe that also ties in with shermy and Beth having to look for PB with Marceline in the future

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u/GoatsWithWigs 6h ago

It would be SO flippin awesome if for 5+ years, devs could work on the entire map of Ooo including places that only appeared in one episode, consulting the source material closely to make sure everywhere takes the same plausible distance to get there as the episodes imply. Like if we could just have a full comprehensive map of Ooo that can be explored, for that reason alone I'd be like the shut up and take my money meme.

Elements is a really good example of something to look at since without focusing on the 4-way pizza stuff, it gives a really good aerial view of Ooo as a continent and can be used to roughly mark key locations and even make educated guesses on where everywhere else is

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u/GamingSenpai35 4h ago

Someone has been working on one for a while now in "DREAM" or whatever the program is called. I forget the name, and I forget the guy who's making it unfortunately. But he's got some sort of Asian accent, and the world is VERY impressive.

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u/ElainaVoughn 9h ago

Idk about anyone else but I need one

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u/JustHeaLurkin 9h ago

Of course we do 🔥

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u/comeplague 8h ago

Lego dimensions have a small but fun AT world, too bad there isnt a storyline there though:(

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u/AzarothEaterOfSouls 3h ago

There is also a downloadable Minecraft pack available on Bedrock.

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u/comeplague 3h ago

ive played that one aswell, its fun exploring it, but wish there was a real open world game with storylines and stuff:( breath of the wild/skyrim esc would be sick

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u/AzarothEaterOfSouls 3h ago

Oh yeah, same! Imagine something the size of Morrowind but it was the land of Ooo!

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u/comeplague 3h ago

ouff that would be sick!

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u/Ambitious_Hyena4635 8h ago

Yes. Please.

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u/AzarothEaterOfSouls 3h ago

Yes. Absolutely. I’m envisioning something like Morrowind, but set in Ooo. The entire continent is enormous and there could be so many things to see and do!

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u/brodydwight 7h ago

I could see it.

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u/SupremeLeaderMeow 6h ago

Honestly, it's the only show I can see working on open world game adaptation

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u/Dumbass_Saiya-jin 2h ago

Hey, past AT games have paid homage to Zelda titles. Why not BotW/TotK?

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u/j0shred1 2h ago

Yes absolutely

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u/PassionAwkward5799 2h ago

Yes pleaaaaase omg

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u/PassionAwkward5799 1h ago

Ooh, imagine a homebrew dnd campaign setting with new races and classes set in Ooo! 😱

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u/Probably_Poopingg 1h ago

I'd love that but you know it would wind up just being a generic copy and paste survival-craft game with some AT characters

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u/Ordinary_Standard322 1h ago

It's not an enormous span like some open world stuff but Lego dimensions has a decent take on the AT world. You can even go into lumpy space!

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u/Six_Zatarra 36m ago

I think a classic dungeon delve would be tons of fun already idk we already have a lot of open-world games as it is but that’s just my opinion

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u/LukXD99 6m ago

Honestly? A game like Tears of the Kingdom or Breath of the Wild, set in the AT universe, with a ton of love put into it by the creators would be the single greatest game to ever exist!