Fresh Take: Buffy as an Adventure Game

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a LucasArts point and click adventure game" by Andrew Scaife

Artist Andrew Scaife re-imagines Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a puzzle-solving video game in the same vein as he Nintendo classic Maniac Mansion with series of mocked-up screencaps.  Each of Scaife's "screencap" was inspired by a different Buffy episode, beginning with "Welcome to the Hellmouth."

"This was a lot of fun to do. Particularly in thinking about which scenes to draw and also realising just how suitable the Buffy stories are to this type of game. There are so many objects and puzzles to solve. It made me think it would be a good writing exercise to take your story and see if it would fit into this type of game. If it can’t then I suspect it’s probably lacking a little narrative propulsion. 

There are many, many other scenes I could have chosen (I’d still like to do 70s Spike on the subway car) but I thought one for each season was nice.

Some I chose because I wanted to show a specific location. Some I chose based on a gag that I thought would be funny e.g. Cordelia’s spatula and Willow’s broken crayon.

Here’s each episode I used as reference: 

Season 1 - Welcome to Hellmouth

Season 2 - Inca Mummy Girl

Season 3 - Homecoming

Season 4 - Hush

Season 5 - Triangle

Season 6 - Grave

Season 7 - Touched"

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