Double Fine Now Working on Sesame Street Kinect Game

Following up Stacking and Costume Quest, Double Fine is moving on to entirely new territory.

Published on February 15, 2011 3:14 PM

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today that they will be publishing the latest work of Double Fine Productions: an Xbox 360, Kinect-enabled Sesame Street game, titled Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster. Double Fine Productions, a company best known for their original IPs, namely Psychonauts and Brutal Legend, has chosen to work on this licensed IP due to their love for the brand and children's TV show.

The game will follow Cookie Monster, Elmo, and other Sesame Street characters in the living story book titled Once Upon a Monster. There, players will partake in the adventures of the zany cast, solve problems, form friendships, and learn life lessons. Similar to the TV show, the game will engage viewers, but given the Kinect technology, young players will have a much more tangible interaction.

The Xbox 360 exclusive title will be available this fall.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Announces Sesame Street: Once upon a Monster

Uplifting Storybook Romp Comes to Life in an Active, Family Game for Kinect for Xbox 360

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, an innovative, engaging and funny, new video game on Kinect™ for Xbox 360®. Being developed by award-winning Double Fine Productions, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster will be available in Fall 2011.

In a truly original interactive experience, young players join Cookie Monster, Elmo and other Sesame Street characters as they explore a living storybook titled Once Upon a Monster. In the book, they make new zany monster friends from the Once Upon a Monster world and share in their adventures, solving problems, forging friendships and learning key life skills along the way. Parents and children literally become part of the whimsical storybook adventure by getting active together through dancing, jumping, flying and more.

“As a mother, I couldn’t be more thrilled with the inspiring activities we’ve created for kids and families to play together in Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster," said Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Production and Development, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “Combining Double Fine Productions’ talent for making highly creative games and the beloved Sesame Street brand, the game mixes original gameplay with a memorable learning experience.”

“It’s great to be working with Warner Bros., especially on a game like Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, which brings together so many things we all care about,” said Tim Schafer, President and CEO of Double Fine Productions. “Sesame Street had a profound effect on me, and many members of the Double Fine team, when we were children. So did video games. Now many of us are parents and we want to share with our kids the great experiences we had, but also the completely new ones made possible by cutting-edge technology like Kinect for Xbox 360. So it’s a labor of love on many levels.”

Guided by a social and emotional curriculum set forth from Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street, young players engage in activities that promote lifelong lessons about making friends, cooperation, and recognizing and labeling emotions.

“We are excited to collaborate in the development of this game where families can play together, be physically active, and parents have the opportunity to foster the social and emotional development of their children,” said Rosemarie Truglio, Vice President of Education & Research at Sesame Workshop.