Seinfeld fans unite โ your Festivus has potentially come early. Melbourne based duo, Ivan Dixon and Jacob Janerka, are currently pitching an animated 16-bit Seinfeld video game entitled Seinfeld Adventure.
Playable characters includeโฆ
- Jerry: dumping beautiful women for trivial reasons
- George: choosing your most convincing lies
- Elaine: deciding which of your dates are the most sponge-worthy.
But you wonโt be able to play as Kramer, the gameโs โwild cardโ. The Kramer character will, however, be capable of influencing the story.
Character stories will interweave and overlap with each other, taking roughly 30 minutes to play through a single episode of Seinfeld Adventure โ just like the show.
Each episode in the self-styled โgame about nothingโ will also feature brand new plots that havenโt been explored in the original series. Dixon and Janerka have shared an example of Episode 1 โ โThe Emailโ โ on their pitch site:
Jerry is dating a publicist who accidentally reveals his email address to Kenny Bania through a group email. Now, Bania fills Jerryโs inbox with a flurry of spam emails asking for feedback on his new stand-up set.
Jerry decides to break up with the publicist over this, but he doesnโt want to deal with the interaction face-to-face. Kramer suggests ending the relationship via email and avoiding it all together. Jerry does this before Elaine reminds him that the publicist was supposed to get them all tickets to the opening night of the new movie โRochelle, Rochelle 2โ.
George devises a plan to corrupt Jerryโs girlfriendโs computer before she can read her emails so that they can still collect the tickets. Kramer says he knows who can help. Someone with a sworn vendetta against email. Someone who has devoted their whole life to analogue mail and sees email as a threat to his livelihood. Someone named Newman.
The credentials of the would-be game creators goes well beyond this concept alone. For example, Dixon co-directed the Childish Gambino music video โFeels Like Summerโ, while also having created pixel animations for The Simpsons, Adventure Time, Rick & Morty, and more. The two have even worked on the likes of Fallout, Wolfenstein, Game of Thrones, and The Watchmen.
Both creatives are currently seeking support from Seinfeld fans, asking them to use #SeinfeldGame, hopefully earning the attention of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David. You know, the people who can actually grant them the necessary permission to create this game in full. Pending the rights, they will either turn to rights holders, Kickstarter, or a publisher to fund the rest.
So โ think you can spare a share? Theyโve already won the support of Mark Hamill of Star Wars, and Elijah Wood of Lord of The Rings. Fine company, I would say.
Find out more over at seinfeldgame.com.
