Bloober Workforce has revealed throughout a chat with IGN on the Digital Dragons convention that the studio turned down the prospect to develop a Noticed online game in favour of Blair Witch.
Right here’s what CEO Piotr Babieno needed to say about how the corporate got here round to engaged on Blair Witch as an alternative of Noticed.
I used to be working with our good accomplice, United Expertise Company. We have been assembly many individuals within the business from Hollywood. UTA could be very recognizable they usually have good relations with all main film studios.
We talked with [multiple studios], and a few of them got here to us and [said] ‘Okay, guys, you’re specializing in horror and we wish to work with you.’ [But] the licensors have been very straight: ‘We wish to do that story. We wish to have the sport in 2021 [to coincide with our movie launch],” and so forth. We determined, ‘Okay, [this is] not what we wish to do.’
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Lionsgate got here to us and stated, ‘Guys, we love [Bloober’s breakout game] Layers of Concern. We noticed what you’re doing with Observer, so we wish to work with you. We all know that you just wish to do your personal video games, so please, that is our checklist of our horror IPs; select one.’
We may [have chosen] Noticed, which is extra fashionable than Blair Witch, however we determined to take Blair Witch as a result of the universe has many alternatives to construct one thing new. That was the explanation why we selected this mission.
Bloober Workforce was not too long ago rumored to be engaged on a full remake of Konami’s 2001 seminal psychological horror sport, Silent Hill 2. The corporate received’t touch upon this, clearly, so we’re simply going to have to attend and see.
No matter whether or not the studio is engaged on the Silent Hill 2 remake, we all know it’s working with Konami and Personal Division, in addition to a 3rd mission that’s at the moment in pre-production.
[Source – IGN]
