In the near future, many studios are expected to produce extraction-style shooters — spanning horror, platformer and even musical genres.
Founded by Blizzard veteran Bill Roper, Lunacy Games has announced a $500,000 investment from Big Bang Accelerator. The funds will go toward developing Innsmouth Mysteries, a cooperative extraction-horror inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft.
The game unfolds in a mysterious coastal town in the 1920s. A team of four supernatural investigators must, before midnight, uncover Innsmouth’s secrets, recover eldritch artifacts and thwart the awakening of an ancient evil.
Bill Roper — who helped establish Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo — departed Blizzard in 2003 and went on to create Hellgate: London. Lunacy Games originally planned a Hellgate sequel, Hellgate: Redemption, and a western-horror titled Skinwalkers featuring cowboys and Lovecraftian elements, but those projects failed to secure the $15–20 million in financing they sought.
Source: iXBT.games