Charles Cecil, the brains behind adventure game classics Beneath A Steel Sky and Broken Sword, is working with charity developer OneBigGame on an all-new project: turning Minesweeper into - what else - an adventure game.
Seriously.
He's come up with a back story for as to why the mines are there, he's come up with characters," OneBigGame co-founder Martin de Ronde told G4. "It's turning out to be a really, really cool game in terms of mechanics and also in terms of the setting and the universe..."
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Sounds nutty, but remember, if someone can make four Pirates of the Caribbean movies out of a hokey old amusement ride, Charles Cecil can not only do this, but do it well.
No, We're Not Kidding: Someone Is Making A Minesweeper Adventure Game [G4]