Toonstruck

Toonstruck
European cover art
Developer(s)	Burst Studios
Publisher(s)	Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Producer(s)	Ron Allen Dana Hanna
Designer(s)	Richard Hare Jennifer McWilliams
Programmer(s)	Douglas Hare Gary Priest
Artist(s)	William Skirvin
Writer(s)	Mark Drop Richard Hare Jennifer McWilliams
Composer(s)	Keith Arem
Platform(s)	DOS
Release	NA: October 30, 1996[1] EU: November 1996
Genre(s)	Graphic adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Toonstruck is a graphic adventure video game developed by Burst Studios, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and released in 1996 for DOS. The game features hand-drawn imagery and animated characters, but the protagonist Drew Blanc (played by Christopher Lloyd) is represented as a video-captured live action character interacting with the cartoon world around him.^[2] In the game, Blanc is transported into the cartoon world he created while suffering from a creative block. Blanc is accompanied by his animated sidekick Flux Wildly.

Conceived in 1993 as a game geared towards children, Toonstruck was later re-written to be more adult-oriented. Virgin Interactive invested huge amounts of money into the game, which ended up costing in excess of US$8 million. In addition to Lloyd, the cast includes several well-known actors and voice actors such as Dan Castellaneta, Tim Curry, David Ogden Stiers and Dom DeLuise. Toonstruck features scan-line compressed FMV that is composited with hand-drawn animated sequences produced by Burst, Nelvana and Rainbow Animation.

Toonstruck was well received by gaming critics, who mostly praised the quality of the animation and the design of the puzzles, but it was a financial disappointment for Virgin. It has since been included in several lists of the best adventure games of all time.