Talking throughout an interview with The Recreation Enterprise, Treatment Artistic Director Sam Lake has revealed one franchise he’d prefer to be concerned with exterior of his firm: The Moomins.
For these out of the loop, The Moomins have been created by Tove Jansson, a Finnish author and illustrator, which take the type of hippo-like creatures which have appeared in quite a few novels, brief tales, image books, and a comic book strip. It’s this franchise that Lake wish to be concerned with exterior of Treatment.
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Elsewhere, Lake revealed described Treatment as a “detour” to his objective of writing novels, one thing which he hopes to do as soon as he’s retired from making video video games. He additionally joked that he’s nonetheless bought lots to within the video games business regardless of having notched up just a few Lifetime Achievement awards.
I’m hoping that I’ll get an opportunity as soon as I lastly retire from making video games to nonetheless do inventive work, and have smaller, extra private tasks. However not but. There’s a slight feeling of… are you making an attempt to inform me one thing? Am I finished? Have I peaked? Are you telling me… ‘okay, run alongside now’. However no, I nonetheless have loads of ardour and concepts.
Again in October 2023, Lake, who additionally supplied the face of Max Payne within the traditional PS2 video games, mentioned that he’d prefer to make a darkish gothic fantasy recreation following completion of Alan Wake 2. He additionally mentioned he’d like such a recreation to be backed by a “large funds.’
Treatment is busy with a number of recreation tasks proper now, because it’s engaged on a sequel to Management, remakes of Max Payne 1 & 2, in addition to an unannounced title that Lake will likely be directing. Its newest undertaking, Alan Wake 2, launched in October 2023 for PS5, PC, and Xbox Collection X/S and has been a important and business success
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