Techland Developing Open-World Fantasy RPG, Hellraid Could Rise Again
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While it's described as "an open-world fantasy game with RPG elements" rather than a full-blown CRPG, it's certainly worth bringing this report on Eurogamer to your attention, as it confirms that Techland is working on such a game and that their first-person action RPG Hellraid (which was put on hold last year) has not been entirely cancelled yet. Word is that they'd consider turning Hellraid over to a trusted and capable developer, if such an option comes to fruition:
Dying Light studio Techland announced in Poland this week it is working on two new games. I spoke with CEO Paweł Marchewka at the conference Digital Dragons about what they'll be.
One will be a new IP developed in Warsaw. It will be an open-world fantasy game with RPG elements - "maybe in a slightly bigger sense than Dying Light ... [but] it's RPG elements rather than RPG game" - and it will have co-op multiplayer and single-player, as Techland has done before.
The other new game will be developed in Wrocław and hasn't been named or detailed. However, Wrocław is the studio responsible for Dying Light, which has been a huge success for Techland. And Marchewka went on to actually mention "Dying Light 2" while answering a separate question of mine about the possibility of making another Dead Island game now that the relationship with Deep Silver seems to have been repaired (Techland is remastering Dead Island for PC, PS4 and Xbox One using the Dying Light engine. This Definitive Edition is out 31st May.).
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The announcement of an open-world fantasy game led many people to assume it was a re-purposed Hellraid. Hellraid, a dark fantasy action game, was put on hold roughly a year ago.
I asked Marchewka whether Hellraid had anything at all to do with the new fantasy IP and he said, confidently, "No." He added: "I mean maybe there are some technical elements ... there will be probably some knowledge from that, but no it had nothing to do with it, no.
"Hellraid is still there," he went on. "It is sitting on the shelf. We just had this great idea that we wanted to explore before. We're not sure how we handle it but we are thinking about Hellraid, how to continue with that game.
"There are different possibilities," he said. "Maybe some other developer we can trust can take it and collaborating with us, delivering it to us so we can just publish it. That's why I'm not closed with this - I'm open for some options."
