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‘Until Dawn’ Developer is Already Busy With Their Next Game
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.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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