Wendy’s has gone full Wendy’s, releasing a 15-hour RPG based on the fast-food chain’s branding.
From the article,
WendyQuest was developed in collaboration with 81monkeys, a Canadian-based company, based on the 2D style of turn-based JRPG classics like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. As more and more games launch with full AI use disclosures, the WendyQuest Steam listing proudly proclaims the game as “100% fresh and 100% human made.”
Things like this start out as a joke, but many cartoons are already just marketing for toys, and video games are getting stuffed with more and more product placement. I fear that the success of things like this and the ikea skyrim mod are the first steps into a disgusting era of nothing but branded media.
but this isnt really anything new. If anything it would be a revival of the branded flash games era.
RIP Candystand.
revival as in create rotting zombie out of the corpse of flash games era