Skybound Games Wants The Walking Dead To Be Worked On By Former Telltale Staff

At the beginning of last October, it was reported that Skybound Games took over the work on the last two projects for games The Walking Dead: The Final Season out of the hands of Telltale Games. And in a question-and-answer session, Ian Howe, CEO of Skybound Games, said that he wanted to bring Telltale’s The Walking Dead development team to finish. games What is meant is.

Although he did not provide a clear explanation, Howe mentioned “the plan, [The walking Dead: Final Season] will be done 100% by former Telltale staff.” He added that “we will only look for a replacement if we do not find a specific role filling from a Telltale employee”. this step is done to respect the team developer from games The Walking Dead, at the same time reminding gamer to the hard work of a number of people behind games that they play.

Howe also said that he had contacted most (if not all) of the team members involved in the series games The Walking Dead. However, he could not confirm whether they were all willing to return or not. The reason is, there is a possibility that former Telltale Games employees have their own plans, which are contrary to Skybound Games’ intention to continue working on The Final Season.

For your information, Skybound Games is a branch of Skybound Entertainment, the company that created The Walking Dead comic series which was later adapted into various media, including the series. video games developed by Telltale Games. Since its release in 2012, The Walking Dead series has received rave reviews from the public gamer, mainly thanks to the dark story and strong characterizations.

Unfortunately, the work on the last part, The Final Season, experienced problems due to the occurrence of massive reduction of employees on Telltale Games last September. Initially there were only 25 staff (out of about 400 people) who were tasked with carrying out their obligations to the board of directors and partners, and some of them were the development team of The Walking Dead: The Final Season. However, one month later, Telltale finally lay off the remaining employees. [Aseek]