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Frogwares Recreates Istanbul With Their City-Building Tool For ‘The Sinking City’
As you’ve probably seen from the dev diaries for The Sinking City, the team at Frogwares have taken great lengths to push what they can do. So, to test their city builder tech that they created in Unreal Engine 4, the team decided to put the software to the test by seeing how much of a real city they could recreate in just one working day (which you can see below).
For an internal test of the tech, Frogwares asked fans on social media to vote from a list of iconic cities (Istanbul was the winner). The team would then see how big a district they could recreate within just eight hours using the city builder, buildings that had already been created for The Sinking City, and Google Maps.
Now, this next part may not appeal to everyone, but it’s still pretty cool: Once the game ships, Frogwares are giving their city builder tool away for free for anyone to use. Obviously, there will be some caveats, but how cool is that?!
The Sinking City surfaces on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC March 21, 2019.
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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