Blair Witch developer says engaged on one other Lionsgate franchise is “highly possible”

Bloober Team and Lionsgate working collectively to adapt one other film franchise is “highly possible,” in keeping with a employees member at Bloober Team.

The Layers of Fear developer is presently working with Lionsgate on Blair Witch, a game based mostly on the film collection of the identical title, which is due for launch August 30.

Set in 1996, ex-cop Ellis and his canine Bullet be part of the seek for a lacking youngster within the wild forests of Maryland. Armed with a flickering flashlight and a night-vision video digital camera, it doesn’t take lengthy for the rescue mission to take a flip for the paranormal.

“It’s the first time that we’ve worked on someone else’s IP,” Maciej Glomb, Team Developer at Bloober Team instructed VG247 at a Blair Witch preview occasion. “So for positive it was a problem from the start, as a result of it’s not one thing that you just make by your self. You need to contact the holder and speak about stuff.

But Lionsgate was very useful and needed to cooperate and provides us essentially the most freedom that they may. It was an excellent expertise – it’s extremely potential that we’ll do another piece sooner or later.”

The most evident horror franchise in Lionsgate’s roster can be the Saw collection. Saw was twice tailored right into a game by the now defunct Zombie Studios in 2009 and 2010, however acquired combined to poor evaluations. However Lionsgate could possibly be wanting to make use of Bloober Team’s pedigree for mixing story-driven horror with a wealthy sense of ambiance to proper this missed alternative.

“As far as I know our companies knew each other before,” Glomb says of how Lionsgate and Bloober Team first got here to work collectively.

“After Layers of Fear hit Early Access Lionsgate probably liked what they saw, and thought it might be a good idea for us to make the Blair Witch game.”

Blair Witch isn’t the only Lionsgate distributed film series that’s getting a tie-in video game. John Wick Hex is currently in development at Thomas was Alone and Volume developer Bithell Games.

You can learn our ideas on the Blair Witch game in our hands-on preview.

Is there one other Lionsgate franchise that you just’d prefer to see Bloober Team take a crack at? Don’t say The Hunger Games. Or La La Land.