Renegade Kid is a name you may recognize if you’re familiar with the Dementium series of (mostly) mobile horror games. The developer clearly drew some inspiration from survival horror classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, with its emphasis on exploration, atmosphere and puzzle-solving. According to the studio’s co-founder, Jools Watsham, this relation runs a little deeper than that.
Dementium: The Ward was originally pitched as a new Silent Hill game for the Nintendo DS, before it became its own thing.
“Little known fact: We pitched “The Ward” to Konami in 2007 as something that could have become a Silent Hill DS game,” explains Watsham in a recent tweet.
IGN was able to get more context from him.
“Our goal was always to release The Ward as an original game, but we were also open to the idea of turning it into a licensed horror game and approached Konami to see if they wanted to work together to mold it into a Silent Hill game for the Nintendo DS.”
The publisher agreed to a meeting, but it sounds like they might have done so as a courtesy. A few minutes in and Konami decided they weren’t the right fit for Silent Hill, I’m assuming, because they had plans to bury it themselves.
