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Telltale Was Working on a New Game Earlier This Year Before Layoffs
The sting of Telltale’s demise and their subsequent abrupt cancelling of The Walking Dead: The Final Season is still very present for a lot of fans, and this next bit of news isn’t likely going to help. It turns out that Telltale had tried to dig itself out of the hole they found themselves in as far back as last year, but with no success.
According to VG24/7, Telltale was toying with the idea of a strategy zombie game with a procedural story in the vein of 11 bit studios’ This War of Mine. Telltale had approached Alexis Kennedy, creator of Cultist Simulator, while they were at BioWare for some consulting “on a specific narrative, procedurally generated thing.” The “thing” was to be a new game, though not one that was attached to The Walking Dead franchise.
The game was planned for a mobile release, but other platforms were also considered, and would be built around base management and resource gathering. It would keep Telltale’s art style, but the game’s stories would be its own thing. An example given was that one of the resources you manage would be people, and each person would have their own traits, strengths, and weaknesses. The subsequent drama that unfolded would provide the story.
Sadly, the project never got very far, and Telltale laid the entire team off save for one person earlier this year, and the project was cancelled. Sadly, as we now know, it was an unfortunate sign of things to come.
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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