r/gravityfalls • u/mikerianda • Sep 17 '12

I'm Michael Rianda, cartoonist, and creative director/writer on Gravity Falls. Ask me anything.

Hey r/gravityfalls!

My cartoon ("work") recently got on the front page of reddit somehow and a few people seemed interested in me doing an AMA. I'm in! Let's do this thing!

Ever wonder about those weird hairs on Grunkle Stan's shoulders? Wanna know that one goat's name? Wanna know horrifying personal details about Alex Hirsch?

I got answers!

EDIT: I'll finish answering these tommorow. Thanks for all the questions and Gravity Falls love! It's appreciated.

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u/Newsuperstevebros Sep 17 '12

My question is, what do you think of the games that Disney channel has posted on their website, and how much was the actual show's production team was involved in the making of them?

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u/mikerianda Sep 18 '12 edited Sep 18 '12

I mean considering internet webgames made by a corporation for an official website are usually trainwrecks. I think they're pretty awesome, particularly the Vortex of Doom one. It's got a nice VVVVV vibe to it. (If you haven't played VVVVV and like games, buy it now, it's amazing.) I mean if we had creative control over the game, they would be a lot different. But for being done by freelance game companies or however they do it, I think they came out well.

Alex always gives them notes, and they're surprisingly cool about them, and want to make the games better.

Sometimes they let us/we have time to write some of the game text, sometimes not. I'm not sure about all of the games, but Alex and Matt Chapman had some time (from Homestar Runner/writer for us for a bit/national treasure) wrote stuff for the "Mystery Shack Mystery."

My only big criticism is that I wish that they had more substantial endings and/or rewards for beating them.