Now that the dust has settled and the blood has congealed, the world wants to know how developer Supermassive Games plans on following up their stellar teen slasher game Until Dawn. Will their next project be a proper sequel, some sort of DLC, or maybe even a brand new game with a similar cinematic structure? So many questions.
It’s going to be awhile before the studio is ready to answer share anything substantial with us, so it’s not at all surprising that the Reddit AMA that Supermassive creative director Will Byles and design director Tom Heaton hosted earlier this week didn’t offer much in the way of answers.
With that said, we did learn some things.
“We are already working on our next game, and we think and hope that Until Dawn fans will love it,” explained the dev when asked about a sequel. Still, a reveal is a long ways off. “We are at very early stages at the moment, so we’re not even thinking about an announcement yet.”
One of the niftier features in Until Dawn was its Butterfly Effect system. This mechanic turned the game’s story into a branching narrative that’s entirely governed by the choices and actions of the player. Complex stories like this aren’t new to video games, though they’re rarely done this well. It’s the sort of concept that deserves to be explored further, and it sounds like it will be too.
When a Redditor asked the duo if the feature would return in the future, they more or less confirmed it would, saying “We are definitely looking to build on what worked in Until Dawn, including the Butterfly Effect.”
As for that rumored DLC we heard mumblings about? No comment.
