Warren Spector has Two More Epic Mickey’s Planned
By: Jon Christensen on November 3rd, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Warren Spector, the genius behind Deus Ex, is underway developing maybe his most ambitious title to date, Epic Mickey. The Wii exclusive (for now), sounds like one of the more intriguing titles to come out this generation of systems. The platformer follows Disney’s most famous star Mickey Mouse, who found himself trapped inside the studio of Yen Sid, who was a powerful sorcerer in the film Fantasia. Sid created a world of old forgotten Disney characters, by drawing them and could be interacted with a mirror. Mickey quickly tries to escape when Yen Sid has left the room and accidently trips through the mirror, spilling paint thinner inside with him. Mickey somehow gets out of the mirror and returns back to his own world. Unfortunately, he realizes his world has been destroyed because of the paint-thinner and it somehow created a villain named the Phantom Blot. Blot took the power from the original Disney mascot named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who Sid, apparently drew before Mickey, and he kidnaps the famous mouse. The story later unfolds and we get to see jealous Disney Characters, who most have never even heard of, and try to destroy Mickey because of his fame.
The story sounds fantastic and easily could have been developed as a film, instead of a game. However, the plot came from the mind of Warren Spector and he even has more ideas about the story, and they won’t fit into this one game. When asked by 1up if we would ever see this game made into a franchise, Spector wasn’t opposed to the idea. “I don’t do anything that isn’t extensible,” he said. “And I will certainly feel like that I have not done my job if we can’t make other games in this world with these characters. In my head, I’ve got two more planned. In the business world of reality, those games have not approved, and who knows if we’ll ever see them. I had three games planned for Deus Ex, and you see where that got me.”
I really do hope Disney greenlights the future installments of Epic Mickey. I really can’t think of a time when I was excited for a videogame project and barley have seen anything about it, besides the premise. And if Spector already has two planned in his head, you better believe they’re probably awesome.

Warren Spector, the genius behind Deus Ex, is underway developing maybe his most ambitious title to date, Epic Mickey. The Wii exclusive (for now), sounds like one of the more intriguing titles to come out this generation of systems. The platformer follows Disney’s most famous star Mickey Mouse, who found himself trapped inside the studio of Yen Sid, who was a powerful sorcerer in the film Fantasia.
Sid created a world of old forgotten Disney characters, by drawing them and could be interacted with a mirror. Mickey quickly tries to escape when Yen Sid has left the room and accidently trips through the mirror, spilling paint thinner inside with him. Mickey somehow gets out of the mirror and returns back to his own world. Unfortunately, he realizes his world has been destroyed because of the paint-thinner and it somehow created a villain named the Phantom Blot. Blot took the power from the original Disney mascot named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who Sid, apparently drew before Mickey, and he kidnaps the famous mouse. The story later unfolds and we get to see jealous Disney characters, who most have never even heard of, and try to destroy Mickey because of his fame.
The story sounds fantastic and easily could have been developed as a film, instead of a game. However, the plot came from the mind of Warren Spector and he even has more ideas about the story, and they won’t fit into this one game. When asked by 1up if we would ever see this game made into a franchise, Spector wasn’t opposed to the idea. “I don’t do anything that isn’t extensible,” he said. “And I will certainly feel like that I have not done my job if we can’t make other games in this world with these characters. In my head, I’ve got two more planned. In the business world of reality, those games have not approved, and who knows if we’ll ever see them. I had three games planned for Deus Ex, and you see where that got me.”
I really do hope Disney greenlights the future installments of Epic Mickey. I really can’t think of a time when I was excited for a videogame project and barley have seen anything about it, besides the premise. And if Spector already has two planned in his head, you better believe they’re probably awesome.