Last week, we reported on the new studio founded by former People Can Fly vets The Astronauts. While no formal announcement has been made regarding the project they're working on, the studio did reveal that they were planning on releasing a game in 2013 using the Unreal Engine.
Naturally, most people assumed that this would be a shooter given that the people who founded The Astronauts made Bulletstorm.However in a blog post from the official Astronauts site, the studio confirmed that they're not working on a shooter.
Guys, we are not making a shooter. Let us repeat that: we are not making a shooter.
And it's actually silly to talk about 'yet another Unreal Engine game' when some of the best, most unique games in the world are made with exactly that particular tech (Bioshock, Mass Effect, Dishonored, etc.).
Additionally, the studio refutes speculation that they've teamed up with Cliff Bleszinski or otherwise known as "CliffyB." Bleszinksi left Epic Games earlier this month to go on a "hiatus," and his current project or destination is still unknown.
The Astronauts also confirm that their upcoming game won't be on mobile, but will be "low budget" due to it being entirely self-funded.
Kickstarter is not just a fantastic funding platform, but also a highly effective marketing tool (whether we like it or not). But we would have a hard time explaining our first game to the public without having it half done already. It's one thing to get people excited about a remake or a sequel of the game they loved in the past (nothing wrong with that!), and it's another to get significant following for the project that's kind of hard to compare to anything else out there.
"Not that we're doing a crazy, experimental game no one ever thought of, but still, we feel it's unique. In the end, we have decided to use our life savings and self-fund the studio. It's very risky, but if our families believe in us, why shouldn't we?
So. there you have it. It's being built on Unreal Engine 3, will be a "low budget" title but won't be a shooter. I think that's all the details we have for now, so speculate from it what you will.
Source: Eurogamer
