Well, it’s not exactly Marjorie Liu: The Video Game, but the cross-pollenization between gaming and comics is so interesting to me, that it’s cool to see it go in reverse.
PassionFruit Games will be adapting one of the Dark Wolverine co-writer’s romance novels into a computer game, set to be released April 2010. Tiger Eye: Curse of the Riddle Box is being touted as a “romance game,” which is a first for me (outside of side-quests in the Sims and Harvest Moon, of course).
Studio director Melissa Eldritch said that PassionFruit was designed to tap into a new segment of the market. “The majority of casual gamers are women aged 25-65, who report they play casual games mainly to escape. Interestingly, those same attributes apply to romance novel readers – so it’s surprising that there are currently so few romance casual games on the market. That’s why we’re excited to bring Tiger Eye to life as interactive entertainment.”
According to the group’s press release, there will be puzzle-solving and mini-games for the PC/Mac game, as well as a storyline that grows as the characters become closer. What’s interesting to me is the fact that Liu — already a New York Times bestselling author (and smart as heck to boot) — will be joining writers such as Eric Trautmann and Brian Reed, who also have ties in the video game world.
