Two fans are currently attempting to gather online support for the creation of a point and click adventure game called Seinfeld Adventure, based around the 90s sitcom. Currently, for legal reasons, the project is a simple pitch, an idea presented to the internet with the hopes of gaining enough traction to secure the rights to make this Seinfeld game a playable reality.
The project is a collaboration between two self-professed Seinfeld fans, Jacob Janerka and Ivan Dixon. Janerka is an independent game developer, who has made his own point and click game called Paradigm in the past, while Dixon an animation director, notable for co-directing the music video for Childish Gambino’s “Feels Like Summer.”
The stated goal of the game is to create a roughly thirty-minute experience following an original story, using the Seinfeld universe and characters. The hypothetical game aims to evoke the feeling of classic point and click titles of the 90s, as though the game were actually released as a “video game cash-in” during the heyday of the series. If the game comes to fruition, it intends to allow players to use various characters and items, as featured in Seinfeld.
Despite ending over two decades ago, the Seinfeld brand is surprisingly strong, particularly as a staple of the internet’s unusual and often surreal humor. A good example of this is the Dreams player who used the game to create a horror game based on the franchise. Or yet another is the time a modder added the apartment from Seinfeld into Doom II, allowing players to blast their way through the sitcom’s iconic set and characters.
Since the game’s potential creators have no affiliation with the show, their current hope is to gain support on the internet, in order to show the owners of Seinfeld’s intellectual property that there’s interest in such a product. As such, the duo released a trailer today, viewable on YouTube and the potential game’s official website, and are currently attempting to get it trending on social media platforms.
In particular, Janerka and Dixon are attempting to gain support from either Jerry Seinfeld himself, or from series creator Larry David. Fans of point and click games or the series itself can use the hashtag #seinfeldgame if they’d like to help spread the word about the hopeful project.
Seinfeld Adventure currently has no release date, as its potential creators are attempting to gain proper licensing to use the franchise.
Source: seinfeldgame.com
