Silent Hill sequence producer Motoi Okamoto has shared that he desires “creators from around the globe who love Silent Hill” to pitch video games for the horror sequence.
In October, Konami introduced a number of upcoming Silent Hill initiatives together with Bloober Workforce‘s Silent Hill 2 remake in addition to Silent Hill Townfall, which is within the works at No Code and will probably be printed by Annapurna Interactive.
Right this moment (January 16), IGN printed an interview with a number of key figures within the franchise, together with composer Akira Yamaoka, idea artist Masahiro Ito, and sequence producer Motoi Okamoto.
On the subject of Konami‘s October showcase, Okamoto defined why the corporate selected to work with extra studios to develop the sequence.
“There’s solely a lot we are able to do ourselves, which implies we have to work with numerous completely different indie creators if we need to make numerous completely different Silent Hills,” defined Okamoto. “That’s why we made strikes to work along with folks around the globe who need to make Silent Hill video games and approached Bloober Workforce, in addition to Annapurna Interactive and No Code.”
Whereas Okamoto admitted that “there are some initiatives that by no means really acquired off the bottom,” he teased that general “the variety of initiatives now we have will solely proceed to develop.”
“The very fact we had been reviving Silent Hill was a secret till now, so we couldn’t precisely exit and yell, ‘Hey, everybody! Deliver us your Silent Hill initiatives!’ We will do this now, so if creators from around the globe who love Silent Hill convey us their pitches, I promise to look via each one among them. We’re all ears.”
Trying forward, Okamoto says Konami has been “speaking with many creators and are nonetheless having numerous discussions about what to do going ahead.”
Yamaoka added that he want to see one other 100 years of the horror sequence, whereas Ito desires it to grow to be “one thing various” that followers “aren’t even capable of think about”.
Earlier within the month, Bloober Workforce revealed that it has solely made “very protected” modifications in its remake of the second sport, and shared that the studio was “thunderstruck” when it discovered it will be engaged on the long-lasting horror sequence.