{"id":7249,"date":"2009-10-29T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T22:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7249"},"modified":"2015-05-28T22:45:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T05:45:15","slug":"disney-buys-junction-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/disney-buys-junction-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Buys Junction Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8993\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8993\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8993 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/epic-mickey-S-e1432878266963.jpg\" alt=\"Concept art for Epic Mickey.\" width=\"390\" height=\"233\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concept art for Epic Mickey.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">OCT. 29, 2009 \u2022 Warren Spector&#8217;s Junction Point Studios was purchased by Disney Interactive in 2007, and the AAA gamemaker&#8217;s first title post-acquisition will be Epic Mickey for the Wii. The title is an platform adventure game that takes place is a separate animated world where long-forgotten Disney cartoon characters have been trapped, and Mickey must come to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span data-mce-mark=\"1\">Impact: Kingdom Hearts proved there was plenty of demand for a more edgy take on classic Disney cartoons. It&#8217;s logical that that Disney Interactive would want to expand on that strategy with content created closer to home than Japan&#8217;s Square Enix.\u00a0 Spector&#8217;s fondness for storytelling and environmental involvement over high-end graphics make his studio a good choice to expand the horizon&#8217;s of Mickey Mouse.\u00a0 Whether Epic Mickey will successfully leverage the Wii&#8217;s more unique platform virtues remains to be seen.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCT. 29, 2009 \u2022 Warren Spector&#8217;s Junction Point Studios was purchased by Disney Interactive in 2007, and the AAA gamemaker&#8217;s first title post-acquisition will be Epic Mickey for the Wii. The title is an platform adventure game that takes place is a separate animated world where long-forgotten Disney cartoon characters have been trapped, and Mickey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14214,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions\/14214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}