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'''''teRGame of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series''''' ​is an episodic video game based on the [[HBO]] television series, to be released in 2014 and consists of six episodes.<ref>[https://twitter.com/telltalegames/status/531838754898460672 @telltalegames] - Twitter ''(Nov 10, 2014)''</ref> It is being developed in conjunction with HBO by [[wikipedia:Telltale Games|Telltale Games]], developers of the critically praised video game spinoffs for ''[[Wikipedia:The Walking Dead (video game)|The Walking Dead]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:The Wolf Among Us|The Wolf Among Us]]''. The game was announced on Twitter on 8 December, 2013.<ref>[https://twitter.com/telltalegames/status/409480716628393985/ Twitter]</ref> The game will be available on PC/Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and iOS in Q4 2014.
  
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| Date = December 2, 2014{{Webref|name=PRN |author=Telltale, Inc. |date=December 2, 2014 |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/game-of-thrones-a-telltale-games-series-season-premiere-now-available-for-download-300003156.html |title='Game of Thrones®: A Telltale Games Series' Season Premiere Now Available For Download |website=PR Newswire |access-date=February 3, 2024 }} <small>(PC, Mac, PlayStation 4)</small><br>December 3, 2014<ref name="PRN" /> <small>(Xbox One, Xbox 360)</small><br>December 4, 2014<ref name="PRN" /> <small>(iOS)</small><br>December 9, 2014<ref name="PRN" /> <small>(PlayStation 3)</small>
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| Platforms = Microsoft Windows<br>Mac OS X<br>PlayStation 3<br>PlayStation 4<br>Xbox 360<br>Xbox One<br>iOS<br>Android
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| Designer = Ryan Kaufman<br>Matt Almer
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| Website = https://telltale.com/series/game-of-thrones/
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'''''Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series'''''<ref name="PRN" /> is an episodic video game based on the [[HBO]] [[Game of Thrones|television series]], released in 2014 and consists of six episodes.<ref>[https://twitter.com/telltalegames/status/531838754898460672 @telltalegames] - Twitter ''(Nov 10, 2014)''</ref> It was being developed in conjunction with HBO by [[wikipedia:Telltale Games|Telltale Games]], developers of the critically praised video game spinoffs for ''[[Wikipedia:The Walking Dead (video game)|The Walking Dead]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:The Wolf Among Us|The Wolf Among Us]]''.
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The game was announced on Twitter on December 8, 2013.<ref>[https://twitter.com/telltalegames/status/409480716628393985/ Twitter]</ref> It was released on December 2, 2014 for PC/Mac and PlayStation 4, on December 3 for Xbox One and Xbox 360, on December 4 for iOS, and on December 9 for PlayStation 3.<ref>[https://mobile.twitter.com/telltalegames/status/538025079599144961 @telltalegames] Twitter ''(Nov 27, 2014)''</ref> Each episode costs $4.99 (£3.99) or $24.99 (£19.99) for the season pass.
   
 
Telltale founder and CEO Dan Connors said in an interview at VGX 2013:
  
Telltale founder and CEO Dan Connors said in an interview at VGX 2013:
   
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''"We’re just really getting into it right now and thinking about the right characters, and who has the most at stake, and who has the most to do, and who has the biggest impact on the world … ‘Cause, you know, we’re so much about consequence, and “Game of Thrones” is so much about big consequence."''
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''"We're just really getting into it right now and thinking about the right characters, and who has the most at stake, and who has the most to do, and who has the biggest impact on the world … ‘Cause, you know, we're so much about consequence, and “Game of Thrones” is so much about big consequence."''
   
 
==Overview==
  
==Overview==
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The main characters are from House Forrester, a family invented for the video game. The Forresters are a family of the minor nobility from the [[Wolfswood]] in [[The North|the North]], bannermen to [[House Glover]] - who are in themselves major vassals sworn to [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]]. The seat of House Forrester is Ironrath, an imposing stronghold in the forest surrounded by ironwood trees. Their [[House words]] are "Iron from Ice", echoing their believe that the severe cold and hostile landscape of the North only make them stronger.<ref>[http://kotaku.com/finally-a-game-of-thrones-video-game-that-looks-worthy-1661233364/+charliejane Kotaku]</ref>
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The main characters are from House Forrester. The Forresters are a family of the minor nobility from the [[Wolfswood]] in the [[North]], bannermen to [[House Glover]] - who are in turn themselves major vassals sworn to [[House Stark]] of [[Winterfell]]. The seat of House Forrester is Ironrath, an imposing stronghold in the forest surrounded by ironwood trees. Their [[house words]] are "Iron from Ice", echoing their belief that the severe cold and hostile landscape of the North only make them stronger.<ref>[http://kotaku.com/finally-a-game-of-thrones-video-game-that-looks-worthy-1661233364/+charliejane Kotaku]</ref>
   
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House Forrester's basic details and allegiances exist in the novels. However they were only mentioned in passing once and its current members were not described: "''...guides Lady Sybell [Glover] had given them, trackers and hunters sworn to Deepwood with clan names like Forrester and Woods, Branch and Bole.''" (''A Dance With Dragons'', Chapter 42) With no details given about its current members in the novels, this gives the video game a blank canvas to fill new characters with.
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The events in the game series generally coincide with [[Season 4]], beginning towards the end of [[Season 3]] and ending just before [[Season 5]] begins.<ref name="Telltale">[http://www.telltalegames.com/blog/86265/your-story-begins-first-details-on-game-of-thrones-a-telltale-games-series First Details] - The Telltale Blog ''(Nov 11, 2014)''</ref>
  
   
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The events of the first season of the game series generally coincide with [[Game of Thrones: Season 4|Season 4]], beginning towards the end of [[Game of Thrones: Season 3|Season 3]] and ending just before [[Game of Thrones: Season 5|Season 5]] begins.<ref name="Telltale">[http://www.telltalegames.com/blog/86265/your-story-begins-first-details-on-game-of-thrones-a-telltale-games-series First Details] - The Telltale Blog ''(Nov 11, 2014)''</ref>
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Players will visit familiar locations such as [[King's Landing]] and [[The Wall|the Wall]], as well as unfamiliar locations such as Ironrath, the home of House Forrester. The game will be player from five different points of view. Each character you play as is a member of House Forrester; either a direct family member, or a person in service to the House. Scattered across Westeros and Essos, each character will play their part in seeking to save House Forrester from destruction. Playing as five characters not only reflects the epic scope of ''Game of Thrones'', but is also something that the player needs to be mindful of. This is because the actions of one character can ripple out to affect the rest of House Forrester.<ref name="Telltale"/>
  
   
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Players visit familiar locations such as [[King's Landing]] and the [[Wall]], as well as unfamiliar locations such as Ironrath, the home of House Forrester. The game is played from five different points of view. Each character you play as is a member of House Forrester; either a direct family member or a person in service to the house. Scattered across Westeros and Essos, each character will play their part in seeking to save House Forrester from destruction. Playing as five characters not only reflects the epic scope of ''Game of Thrones'', but is also something that the player needs to be mindful of. This is because the actions of one character can ripple out to affect the rest of House Forrester.<ref name="Telltale" />
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Actors from the main ''[[Game of Thrones (TV series)|Game of Thrones]]'' TV series will reprise their roles for the video game, providing voice-acting for the in-game appearances of their characters. [[Lena Headey]] (Cersei), [[Peter Dinklage]] (Tyrion), [[Natalie Dormer]] (Margaery), and [[Iwan Rheon]] (Ramsay). Other actors and characters from the main TV series will appear in later episodes.
  
   
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Actors from the main ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' TV series reprised their roles for the video game, providing voice-acting for the in-game appearances of their characters, including [[Lena Headey]] (Cersei), [[Peter Dinklage]] (Tyrion), [[Natalie Dormer]] (Margaery), and [[Iwan Rheon]] (Ramsay). Other actors and characters from the main TV series were to appear in later episodes.
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==Background==
  
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In the [[Lordship|social structure]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], there are usually only nine [[Great House]]s, such as the Starks or Lannisters, that rule entire regions ("seven" kingdoms, plus [[The Riverlands|the Riverlands]] which are a borderland region, plus the capital region of [[The Crownlands|the Crownlands]]). Each Great House has about a dozen or so major noble Houses immediately sworn to them. In the North, these include [[House Umber]], [[House Manderly]], [[House Karstark]], and [[House Glover]], among others. All told this means that there are a little over one hundred major noble Houses in Westeros, almost all of which have been accounted for in the novels. However, each of the major noble Houses also have their own minor noble Houses that serve them as local bannermen. For example, [[House Cassel]] is a local minor House in direct service to the Starks, not one of the major noble Houses like the Umbers ([[George R.R. Martin]] has said that in retrospect, he should have used distinct terms for the three different ranks of nobles, such as "duke" and "baron", instead of each holding the rank of "Lord"). Given that each major noble House has a couple of minor Houses serving as local bannermen, there are apparently ''hundreds'' of minor Houses which have never been mentioned in the novels, with the main novel mostly focusing on the large-scale conflicts between entire kingdoms.
  
   
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== Background ==
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Therefore while there is no "House Forrester" in the novels, it is entirely plausible that they ''could'' exist in them. Essentially, the video game is focusing on a representative "everyman" minor House, to show how the War of the Five Kings is impacting people on a local level. In ''Star Wars'' terms, it is mentioned in passing that an entire galaxy with thousands of inhabited planets is being torn apart by a civil war, but each individual planet out of these thousands was not exhaustively accounted for. Thus ''Star Wars'' spinoff video games have often focused on the civil war as it plays out on one specific planet - a generic minor planet which wouldn't normally be mentioned in the grand sweep of the main narrative.
  
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In the [[Lordship|social structure]] of the [[Seven Kingdoms]], there are usually only nine [[Great House]]s, such as the Starks or Lannisters, that rule entire regions ("seven" kingdoms, plus the [[Riverlands]] which are a borderland region, plus the capital region of the [[Crownlands]]). Each Great House has about a dozen or so major noble houses immediately sworn to them. In the North, these include [[House Umber]], [[House Manderly]], [[House Karstark]], and [[House Glover]], among others. All told this means that there are a little over one hundred major noble houses in Westeros, almost all of which have been accounted for in the novels. However, each of the major noble houses also have their own minor noble houses that serve them as local bannermen. For example, [[House Cassel]] is a local minor house in direct service to the Starks, not one of the major noble houses like the Umbers ([[George R.R. Martin]] has said that in retrospect, he should have used distinct terms for the three different ranks of nobles, such as "duke" and "baron", instead of each holding the rank of "Lord"). Given that each major noble house has a couple of minor houses serving as local bannermen, there are apparently ''hundreds'' of minor houses which have never been mentioned in the novels, with the main novel mostly focusing on the large-scale conflicts between entire kingdoms.
   
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Essentially, the video game is focusing on a representative "everyman" minor house, to show how the [[War of the Five Kings]] is impacting people on a local level.
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Westeros is a large continent, not simply one country, so the unified realm under the [[Iron Throne]] is on the scale of the Roman Empire, and each constituent kingdom such as "the North" is the size of an entire real-life medieval country, with armies numbering in the tens of thousands. Major Houses such as the Umbers or Karstarks can raise armies from their combined minor bannermen numbering in the low thousands. Minor noble Houses who are bannermen to the others have forces numbering in the hundreds at most.
  
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Westeros is a large continent (often said to be roughly the size of South America), not simply one country, so the unified realm under the [[Iron Throne]] is on the scale of the Roman Empire, and each constituent kingdom such as "the North" is the size of an entire real-life medieval country, with armies numbering in the tens of thousands. Major houses such as the Umbers or Karstarks can raise armies from their combined minor bannermen numbering in the low thousands. Minor noble houses who are bannermen to the others have forces numbering in the hundreds at most.
   
 
==Episodes==
  
==Episodes==
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| "[[Iron From Ice]]"{{Ref|ATGS01}}
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| "[[The Lost Lords]]"{{Ref|ATGS02}}
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| February 3, 2015{{Webref|name=GS |author=Rob Crossley |date=January 22, 2015 |url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/telltale-s-game-of-thrones-episode-2-coming-early-/1100-6424823/ |title=Telltale's Game of Thrones Episode 2 Coming Early February |website=GameSpot |access-date=February 3, 2024 }}
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| "[[The Sword in the Darkness]]"{{Ref|ATGS03}}
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| March 24, 2015{{Webref|name=EW |author=Jonathon Dornbush |date=March 23, 2015 |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/03/23/telltale-game-of-thrones-episode-3-trailer-release-date/ |title=Watch Telltale's 'Game of Thrones' episode 3 trailer |website=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=February 3, 2024 }}
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| style="text-align: center;" | 4{{Ref|ATGS04}}
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| "[[Sons of Winter]]"{{Ref|ATGS04}}
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| May 26, 2015{{Webref|name=IGN |author=Luke Karmali |date=May 22, 2015 |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/05/21/telltales-game-of-thrones-episode-4-gets-a-release-date |title=Telltale's Game of Thrones Episode 4 Gets a Release Date |website=IGN |access-date=February 3, 2024 }}
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| "[[A Nest of Vipers]]"{{Ref|ATGS05}}
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| July 21, 2015{{Webref|name=EW2 |author=Jonathon Dornbush |date=July 16, 2015 |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/07/16/telltale-game-of-thrones-episode-5-release-date-trailer/ |title=Telltale Games Game of Thrones fifth episode release date and trailer |website=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=February 3, 2024 }}
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| "[[The Ice Dragon]]"{{Ref|ATGS06}}
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| November 17, 2015{{Webref|name=EW3 |author=Jonathon Dornbush |date=October 21, 2015 |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/10/21/telltale-games-game-thrones-cast-trailer-episode-6-release-date/ |title=Telltale Games' Game of Thrones cast trailer, episode 6 release date |website=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=February 3, 2024 }}
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== Canceled sequel ==
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==Appearances==
  
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The second season of ''Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series'' was announced on November 20, 2015 in an interview with Kevin Bruner, then Telltale's CEO and co-founder and executive producer of Season 1.<ref>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-thrones-telltale-season-2-842311</ref>
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===Characters===
  
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* [[Cersei Lannister]]
  
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*[[Tyrion Lannister]]
  
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*[[Margaery Tyrell]]
  
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*[[Ramsay Bolton|Ramsay Snow]]
  
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* Gregor Forrester
  
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* Elissa Forrester
  
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* Rodrick Forrester
  
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* Asher Forrester
  
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* Mira Forrester
  
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* Ethan Forrester
  
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* Talia Forrester
  
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* Ryon Forrester
  
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* Malcom Branfield
  
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* Duncan Tuttle
  
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* Gared Tuttle
  
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* Royland Degore
  
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* Maester Ortengryn
  
   
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In an interview with Eurogamer on August 29, 2017, Telltale's head of creative communications Job Stauffer stated that plans for Season 2 were on hold due the other games they are working on and because they want to see where the narrative of the ''Game of Thrones'' TV series goes. Job Stauffer said that the project was having a hold up at least until the ''Game of Thrones'' TV series ends with [[Game of Thrones: Season 8|Season 8]]. <ref>http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-08-25-telltale-talks-the-wolf-among-us-return-and-game-of-thrones-being-on-hold</ref>
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*[[King's Landing]]
  
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*[[The Wall]]
  
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*[[Wolfswood]]
  
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*Ironrath
  
   
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On September 21, 2018 it was announced that Telltale Games was undergoing a studio closure which meant that multiple Telltale employees had been laid off with just 10% of the staff staying on to fulfill the company's obligations to its board and partners".<ref>https://www.usgamer.net/articles/report-telltale-games-shutting-down-the-wolf-among-us-2-and-stranger-things-canceled</ref> The second season of ''Game of Thrones: A Telltale Game Series'' was canceled upon the majority studio closure, and eventual bankruptcy and collapse, of Telltale Incorporated. The status of the game's canonicity in relation to the television series is uncertain.
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===Houses===
  
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*House Forrester
  
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*[[House Lannister]]
  
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*House Whitehill
  
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*[[House Bolton]]
  
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*[[House Tyrell]]
  
   
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*[[Iron Throne]]
  
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====Story So Far====
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Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series[2] is an episodic video game based on the HBO television series, released in 2014 and consists of six episodes.[3] It was being developed in conjunction with HBO by Telltale Games, developers of the critically praised video game spinoffs for The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us. The game was announced on Twitter on December 8, 2013.[4] It was released on December 2, 2014 for PC/Mac and PlayStation 4, on December 3 for Xbox One and Xbox 360, on December 4 for iOS, and on December 9 for PlayStation 3.[5] Each episode costs $4.99 (£3.99) or $24.99 (£19.99) for the season pass.

Telltale founder and CEO Dan Connors said in an interview at VGX 2013:

"We're just really getting into it right now and thinking about the right characters, and who has the most at stake, and who has the most to do, and who has the biggest impact on the world … ‘Cause, you know, we're so much about consequence, and “Game of Thrones” is so much about big consequence."

Overview

The main characters are from House Forrester. The Forresters are a family of the minor nobility from the Wolfswood in the North, bannermen to House Glover - who are in turn themselves major vassals sworn to House Stark of Winterfell. The seat of House Forrester is Ironrath, an imposing stronghold in the forest surrounded by ironwood trees. Their house words are "Iron from Ice", echoing their belief that the severe cold and hostile landscape of the North only make them stronger.[6]

House Forrester's basic details and allegiances exist in the novels. However they were only mentioned in passing once and its current members were not described: "...guides Lady Sybell [Glover] had given them, trackers and hunters sworn to Deepwood with clan names like Forrester and Woods, Branch and Bole." (A Dance With Dragons, Chapter 42) With no details given about its current members in the novels, this gives the video game a blank canvas to fill new characters with.

The events of the first season of the game series generally coincide with Season 4, beginning towards the end of Season 3 and ending just before Season 5 begins.[7]

Players visit familiar locations such as King's Landing and the Wall, as well as unfamiliar locations such as Ironrath, the home of House Forrester. The game is played from five different points of view. Each character you play as is a member of House Forrester; either a direct family member or a person in service to the house. Scattered across Westeros and Essos, each character will play their part in seeking to save House Forrester from destruction. Playing as five characters not only reflects the epic scope of Game of Thrones, but is also something that the player needs to be mindful of. This is because the actions of one character can ripple out to affect the rest of House Forrester.[7]

Actors from the main Game of Thrones TV series reprised their roles for the video game, providing voice-acting for the in-game appearances of their characters, including Lena Headey (Cersei), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion), Natalie Dormer (Margaery), and Iwan Rheon (Ramsay). Other actors and characters from the main TV series were to appear in later episodes.

Background

In the social structure of the Seven Kingdoms, there are usually only nine Great Houses, such as the Starks or Lannisters, that rule entire regions ("seven" kingdoms, plus the Riverlands which are a borderland region, plus the capital region of the Crownlands). Each Great House has about a dozen or so major noble houses immediately sworn to them. In the North, these include House Umber, House Manderly, House Karstark, and House Glover, among others. All told this means that there are a little over one hundred major noble houses in Westeros, almost all of which have been accounted for in the novels. However, each of the major noble houses also have their own minor noble houses that serve them as local bannermen. For example, House Cassel is a local minor house in direct service to the Starks, not one of the major noble houses like the Umbers (George R.R. Martin has said that in retrospect, he should have used distinct terms for the three different ranks of nobles, such as "duke" and "baron", instead of each holding the rank of "Lord"). Given that each major noble house has a couple of minor houses serving as local bannermen, there are apparently hundreds of minor houses which have never been mentioned in the novels, with the main novel mostly focusing on the large-scale conflicts between entire kingdoms.

Essentially, the video game is focusing on a representative "everyman" minor house, to show how the War of the Five Kings is impacting people on a local level.

Westeros is a large continent (often said to be roughly the size of South America), not simply one country, so the unified realm under the Iron Throne is on the scale of the Roman Empire, and each constituent kingdom such as "the North" is the size of an entire real-life medieval country, with armies numbering in the tens of thousands. Major houses such as the Umbers or Karstarks can raise armies from their combined minor bannermen numbering in the low thousands. Minor noble houses who are bannermen to the others have forces numbering in the hundreds at most.

Episodes

Episode Image Title Release date
1[8] Telltale S0E01 "Iron From Ice"[8] December 2, 2014[2]
2[9] Telltale S0E02 "The Lost Lords"[9] February 3, 2015[10]
3[11] Telltale S0E03 "The Sword in the Darkness"[11] March 24, 2015[12]
4[13] Telltale S0E04 "Sons of Winter"[13] May 26, 2015[14]
5[15] Telltale S0E05 "A Nest of Vipers"[15] July 21, 2015[16]
6[1] Telltale S0E06 "The Ice Dragon"[1] November 17, 2015[17]

Canceled sequel

The second season of Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series was announced on November 20, 2015 in an interview with Kevin Bruner, then Telltale's CEO and co-founder and executive producer of Season 1.[18]

In an interview with Eurogamer on August 29, 2017, Telltale's head of creative communications Job Stauffer stated that plans for Season 2 were on hold due the other games they are working on and because they want to see where the narrative of the Game of Thrones TV series goes. Job Stauffer said that the project was having a hold up at least until the Game of Thrones TV series ends with Season 8. [19]

On September 21, 2018 it was announced that Telltale Games was undergoing a studio closure which meant that multiple Telltale employees had been laid off with just 10% of the staff staying on to fulfill the company's obligations to its board and partners".[20] The second season of Game of Thrones: A Telltale Game Series was canceled upon the majority studio closure, and eventual bankruptcy and collapse, of Telltale Incorporated. The status of the game's canonicity in relation to the television series is uncertain.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, Episode 6: "The Ice Dragon" (2015).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Telltale, Inc. (December 2, 2014). 'Game of Thrones®: A Telltale Games Series' Season Premiere Now Available For Download. PR Newswire. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
  3. ↑ @telltalegames - Twitter (Nov 10, 2014)
  4. ↑ Twitter
  5. ↑ @telltalegames Twitter (Nov 27, 2014)
  6. ↑ Kotaku
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 First Details - The Telltale Blog (Nov 11, 2014)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, Episode 1: "Iron From Ice" (2014).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, Episode 2: "The Lost Lords" (2015).
  10. ↑ Rob Crossley (January 22, 2015). Telltale's Game of Thrones Episode 2 Coming Early February. GameSpot. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, Episode 3: "The Sword in the Darkness" (2015).
  12. ↑ Jonathon Dornbush (March 23, 2015). Watch Telltale's 'Game of Thrones' episode 3 trailer. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, Episode 4: "Sons of Winter" (2015).
  14. ↑ Luke Karmali (May 22, 2015). Telltale's Game of Thrones Episode 4 Gets a Release Date. IGN. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, Episode 5: "A Nest of Vipers" (2015).
  16. ↑ Jonathon Dornbush (July 16, 2015). Telltale Games Game of Thrones fifth episode release date and trailer. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
  17. ↑ Jonathon Dornbush (October 21, 2015). Telltale Games' Game of Thrones cast trailer, episode 6 release date. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
  18. ↑ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-thrones-telltale-season-2-842311
  19. ↑ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-08-25-telltale-talks-the-wolf-among-us-return-and-game-of-thrones-being-on-hold
  20. ↑ https://www.usgamer.net/articles/report-telltale-games-shutting-down-the-wolf-among-us-2-and-stranger-things-canceled

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