P.T, the beloved, scare-out-of-your-wits horror game may have disappeared, but all hope is not lost. After the news of its cancellation got out in June, Allison Road, the Silent Hill inspired first person horror title in back in works.
In a statement to IGN, the creator of the game, Christian Kesler confirmed that he plans to continue his work on Allison Road independently, under a new studio called Far From Home, which he co-founded with his wife.
“I’m actually really happy to be able to announce that Allison Road will continue,” Kesler said, saying he is still passionate about the project. “We had a lot of support online and some folks out there are just incredibly nice.”
“It did take a bit of soul searching to find the drive again to work on Allison Road and to simply make a call on what to do next,” Kesler goes on to say. “After the set back, I took a bit of a break from working on it and re-evaluated all the work that had been done so far — the whole journey, so to speak. I started making a few (in my opinion) necessary changes to the story and the flow, little bits and pieces here and there, and before I knew it, it sort of naturally came back to life.”
The game had initially debuted back in July 2015 with a pre-alpha demo, and immediately reminded everyone of P.T. Despite its popularity and an immensely successful Kickstarter campaign that reached half its goal within a week, the game got cancelled in June 2016 due to some riff between Kesler’s former studio, Lillith Ltd. and Team 17.
“For our gameplay trailer, I did all the modeling, texturing, shaders, lighting, etc., and thankfully a lot of the mechanics are already implemented from the previous development phase, so I can comfortably take the game forward by myself,” Kesler told IGN, talking more abouut the game. “If and when it comes to a point where new features and mechanics are required, or old ones need changing, I’ll go look for support.”
The game doesn’t have a release date yet, and no light has been shed on the aforementioned changes, but it’s good to know that we may still get to get our hands on a P.T-like experience. Stay tuned for further updates.
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