![]() ![]() ![]() “People recognized the hurdle set forth by deciding there’s going to be this little girl that’s going to be a key feature of the game, but people kept saying yes anyway.”Ĭlementine also had to be imaginative and precocious, which lead to giving her a hideout: the treehouse. There’s no kid I can point to in a video game and say, ‘It’s going to be just like that person, don’t worry about it.’” Soon enough, the reservations lifted, surprising even Vanaman. Vanaman says, “Getting people internally excited about it was really challenging. ![]() However, convincing his Telltale cohorts to use a young girl in such an intense setting wasn’t an easy sell. Vanaman had plenty of reasons to focus on a child, since Robert Kirkman, writer of the original comic series, never shied away from involving kids in his dark tale. “Clementine was literally the first idea,” says Vanaman, who planned Episode Fives’s outcome before writing a single line of dialogue. Though Lee Everett is the character you control in The Walking Dead, he wasn’t the character that the game is built around. How did Telltale create one of the most magnetic characters to grace our TV screens? We sat down with some of the masterminds behind Clementine at Telltale – writer and creative lead Sean Vanaman, art director Derek Sakai, and voice actress Melissa Hutchison – to discover how one little girl came to life and became a beacon of light in a hopeless journey. ![]() She’s broken through the barrier, securing a place in the hearts of many – a feat most video game characters never accomplish. The experience centers on keeping one little girl safe, and we do things we never imagined we’d do just to hear her speak another line of dialogue.Ĭlementine isn’t just a collection of polygons on a television screen. This zombie apocalypse is different it isn’t about mindlessly killing zombies, escaping from Boomers, or hiding out in a mall. Yes, there’s something about Clementine, and when she stepped onto the screen in Telltale’s The Walking Dead with her oversized blue-and-white baseball cap, messy hair, wide eyes, and angelic voice, everything changed. This year’s most beloved protagonist isn’t a war hero, assassin, or space marine she’s an eight-year-old girl. ![]()
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