Disney Interactive and Junction Point’s action adventure title starring Mickey Mouse was unveiled to the public for the first time during Nintendo’s E3 2010 press conference, where the unique ‘drawing’ and ‘erasing’ gameplay mechanic was demonstrated to the audience.

While in the world of Disney Epic Mickey, players will be able to use the power of ‘paint’ to draw objects and items into the world to help them proceed, solve puzzles and gain the trust of the world’s inhabitants. Players can also use paint ‘thinner’ to erase objects from the world at will, even being able to erase walls, floors and ceilings to ease progress.

How you use these abilities will determine how the world and its characters react to you, which will in turn affect the way the story plays out.

You can see all of this in action in a couple gameplay videos below, and hear project head Warren Spector talk about Disney Epic Mickey:

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Nintendo just wrapped up their E3 press conference and be assured that it didn’t disappoint! In addition to revealing the new Nintendo 3DS, the publisher showed off Wii Party and Metroid Other M and even managed to pull off more than a couple of surprises with the unveiling of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Mario Sports Mix, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Donkey Kong: Country Returns, Kid Icarus: Uprising and Goldeneye. We also got a taste of Just Dance 2, Disney’s Epic Mickey, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies.

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After the first reveal of Disney and Junction Point’s Epic Mickey in Game Informer, the news has officially been announced – Disney Epic Mickey, a platform adventure game featuring the adventures of a reinvented Mickey Mouse, will be releasing on the Wii in the Fall of 2010.

Disney Epic Mickey tells the tale of Yen Sid’s Cartoon Wasteland, a world created by the powerful sorcerer Yin Sid, where Disney’s forgotten and retired creations to live, and continue to live and flourish. Walt Disney’s ultimate forgotten creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (created in 1927 and Walt Disney’s first cartoon star) becomes this world’s first resident after the creation of Mickey Mouse.

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A time-lapse video featuring one of the Epic Mickey concept artists has been released, showing him sketching out one of the enemies (presumably) to be found in what seems like a wonderful world fantasy world, if the released art is anything to go by.

Epic Mickey has been confirmed to be a Wii exclusive, despite a bunch of rumours to the contrary, and is currently being helmed by Warren Spector, Junction Point and Disney Interactive. Epic Mickey is looking (and sounding) mightily exciting!

Watch an Epic Mickey enemy appear on a page as though from thin air, below:

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It’s officially official – game industry legend Warren Spector and Disney have revealed their joint-venture game to be the much-rumoured, Mickey Mouse-starring game by the name of Epic Mickey, and you’ll be able to read all about it in the next issue of Game Informer when subscribers get their hands on the magazine on October 12th.

Warren Spector is the founder of the (relatively) new game development studio Junction Point, which joined Disney Interactive Studios in July of 2007, at which time Spector and his team got their mitts on Disney’s considerable catalogue of characters and universes, to play with as they wished.

The result is Epic Mickey, a Wii-exclusive game about which not much is known, although according to Game Informer, they’ll be releasing new information about the game over the next few weeks for gamers to feast upon.

In the meantime though, you can cast your eyes on the official, beautiful Epic Mickey Game Informer cover below, and watch a video interview with Warren Spector himself as he talks about his history with Disney (as a fan), as well as the Epic Mickey project itself.

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