One of the standard icons is a cube of ice (for "breaking the ice" with a character) as dialogue options are exhausted, the cube melts into a puddle of water. Dialogue options with characters throughout the game are displayed as graphical icons that represent the topic of conversation. The game uses a "Bottomless Bag" as an inventory icon, and the mouse pointer, represented by an animated white-gloved hand, is context-sensitive, changing its icon depending on what it is rolled over.
Toonstruck is a point-and-click adventure game where the player controls Christopher Lloyd's digitized likeness, accompanied by his cartoon sidekick Flux. The "bottomless bag" appears on the bottom left corner Drew can be seen talking to the Carecrow as Flux is walking away. The barn before it is struck by the Malevolator's beam. It has since been included in several lists of the best adventure games of all time, and has recently been re-released for modern computers by GOG.com and Steam. Toonstruck was well received by gaming critics, who mostly praised the quality of the animation, puzzles and performances by Lloyd and Castellaneta, although it was a financial disappointment for Virgin. Toonstruck features scan-line compressed FMV that is composited with hand-drawn animated sequences produced by Burst, Nelvana and Rainbow Animation. In addition to Lloyd and Castellaneta, the cast includes several well-known actors and voice actors such as Tim Curry, David Ogden Stiers and Jim Cummings. Virgin Interactive invested huge amounts of money into the game, which ended up costing in excess of US$8 million. Ĭonceived in 1993 as a game geared towards children, Toonstruck was later re-written to be more adult-oriented. Blanc is accompanied by his animated sidekick Flux Wildly, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. In the game, a live-action protagonist Drew Blanc, played and voiced by Christopher Lloyd, is transported into the cartoon world he created while suffering from a creative block. Toonstruck is a graphic adventure video game developed by Burst Studios, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and released in 1996 for MS-DOS.
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