The brand new studio of former Respawn lead developer Stig Asmussen is formally engaged on a brand new DnD recreation. Nonetheless, it won’t be a role-playing recreation à la Baldur’s Gate 3.
What’s subsequent for Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3? Wizards of the Coast, the license holder for Dungeons & Dragons, has discovered one other reply. The studio Large Cranium, newly based in 2024, is growing a brand new recreation with a DnD license, however the official press launch continues to be stingy with particulars in regards to the challenge.
The press launch is stuffed with good needs for the collaboration and even higher intentions, however actual info is scarce, although thankfully not utterly absent.
The next particulars are identified:
A single-player motion journey recreation with a DnD license is being developed.
The sport is scheduled for launch on PC and console
The sport is being developed utilizing the Unreal Engine 5
Large Skulls founder and CEO Stig Asmussen additionally reveals:
Our objective is to create a wealthy new Dungeons & Dragons universe full of a compelling story, heroic fight, and thrilling journeys that gamers will totally immerse themselves in.
Asmussen beforehand labored on God of Battle 1 (the unique trilogy) with Wizards of the Coast’s dad or mum firm Hasbro. The developer’s résumé additionally contains positions as artwork director on God of Battle 2 and later recreation director on God of Battle 3.
Asmussen later moved from Sony’s Santa Monica Studio to Digital Arts and Respawn Leisure, the place he was recreation director for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Fallen Order.
Large Cranium consists of quite a few veterans from studios corresponding to Epic Video games, Riot, and Rocksteady. The DnD recreation is at present the primary and solely identified challenge.
The preliminary info and the possible style orientation of Large Cranium recommend that it will likely be a considerably totally different recreation than Baldur’s Gate 3. One chance can be a recreation in regards to the darkish elf Drizzt Do’Urden. The hero from the novels by creator R.A. Salvatore, armed with two blades, would match properly into Asmussen’s earlier video games along with his combating fashion and talents. There may be definitely sufficient supply materials: “The Legend of Drizzt” started in 1988 and now contains a great 40 books.
