Glenn Schofield is thought for having labored on one of the beloved titles within the survival horror style – Useless House. In more moderen instances, nonetheless, he has confronted a good variety of points, from the middling vital reception of The Callisto Protocol, to him having to cancel his more moderen initiatives as a consequence of lack of funding. In an interview with PCGamer, Schofield has additionally revealed that he can be up for making a sport primarily based on the traditional sci-fi horror motion franchise Alien.
Whereas he did specific curiosity within the thought, he additionally famous that he would wish to give you his personal tackle the Alien franchise, full along with his personal concepts of what a Xenomorph can be. He has even gone so far as messing round with generative AI software Midjourney to attempt to create totally different sorts of Xenomorphs. Finally, nonetheless, he can be happier with engaged on considered one of his personal initiatives reasonably than a licensed IP.
“Let’s say I took on a licence,” he mentioned. “Which I actually don’t wish to do; I wish to make my very own. Let’s say someone got here to me and mentioned, ‘We’re going to provide the Alien licence.’ Instantly I may present you, I don’t know, perhaps 100 totally different aliens I’ve made in Midjourney over the past two years, simply because I prefer it. So yeah, I’d like to make an Alien sport.”
When it comes concepts about potential discussions with Alien IP proprietor twentieth Century Fox – itself owned by Disney – Schofield famous that he would need full artistic management over the undertaking, referring to it as “not even negotiable.”
“I’ve to personal the artistic,” he mentioned. “That’s not even negotiable. As a result of I gained’t make an amazing sport until it’s mine and I’m so ingrained in it—then I provides you with 130%.”
Earlier this yr, Schofield had spoken about dealing with difficulties with getting new initiatives off the bottom since his departure from Putting Distance Studios. Among the many issues he was engaged on on the time, he additionally wrote a couple of undertaking alongside his daughter.
“Over the previous eight months, I’ve been quietly working with my daughter, Nicole, on a brand new sport thought,” wrote Schofield. “She got here to me with it, and I instantly cherished the thought. One thing I hadn’t seen earlier than. We’ve been calling it a brand new sub-genre of horror—not simply horror, however one thing extra.”
Difficulties with getting the undertaking going largely got here all the way down to budgetary issues, nonetheless. Whereas he had selected a price range of $17 million for the undertaking on the time, buyers weren’t biting, with some asking him to “get it to $10 million”, after which later going even decrease, all the way down to $2 to $5 million.
“So final month, we determined to stroll away. Some concepts are higher left untouched than finished low-cost,” he continued. “We had a crew of six right here within the States and a full crew within the UK. Now, everybody’s searching for work. They’re all gifted of us—if you happen to’re hiring, let me know.”
In his submit, Schofield famous that, with the present state of the gaming trade and the difficulties with getting funding, he is perhaps finished along with his profession as a sport director.
“I’m nonetheless round, making artwork, writing tales and concepts and nonetheless cheering the trade on,” he wrote. “However perhaps I’ve directed my final sport. Who is aware of? If that’s the case thanks taking part in my video games.”
