An replace on American McGee’s Alice: Asylum patreon challenge has revealed that EA will not be taking over a sequel to the 2000 and 2011 Alice sequence, which creator McGee has been making an attempt to get made for one thing like (opens in new tab) six years now (opens in new tab). McGee says EA is neither eager about funding the challenge itself nor licensing the Alice IP to McGee.
“They’ve finally determined to move on the challenge based mostly on an inside evaluation of the IP, market situations, and particulars of the manufacturing proposal. On the query of licensing, they replied that “Alice” is a vital a part of EA’s total recreation catalog, and promoting or licensing it isn’t one thing they’re ready to do proper now,” stated McGee in a submit titled “Finish of the Journey (opens in new tab)” on the Alice: Asylum Patreon challenge.
The Alice: Asylum challenge has been an effort by McGee to place collectively an in depth pitch doc with artwork and ideas with a purpose to get EA to fund a sequel or enable it to be made by way of licensing the world. After creating world paperwork and descriptions over the course of the previous 12 months, all of which you’ll be able to learn on-line (opens in new tab), McGee lastly began correctly pitching the challenge in February with a extremely bizarre video (opens in new tab).
It is actually type of bizarre that EA would say it considers Alice an “vital a part of EA’s total recreation catalog” seeing because the final Alice recreation to come back out was in 2011. You already know, 12 years in the past. Sufficient time in even slow-paced improvement land for 2 or three sequels to have been developed and launched. I do know I deal with crucial concepts I’ve had in the identical manner: Go away them on a shelf and pay no consideration to them in any respect.
As for McGee, properly, he says that is the tip of issues for his Alice: Asylum challenge, and for his involvement with not simply the Alice world however recreation manufacturing usually.
“In my opinion, I’ve additionally reached an endpoint with “Alice” and with recreation manufacturing generally. I’ve no different concepts or vitality left to use towards getting a brand new Alice recreation made. Nor do I’ve any curiosity in pursuing new recreation concepts throughout the context of the present atmosphere for recreation improvement,” he stated.
“If somebody does handle to persuade EA to make “Asylum,” I wish to clarify that, from this level ahead, I’ve no want to be concerned with that or some other Alice-related improvement,” stated McGee.
In order that’s it for a bizarre, multi-year saga within the wild world of recreation improvement. Bid farewell to the Alice IP, I suppose. Or simply make your individual darkly-inflected Alice in Wonderland themed recreation. It is public area. You may simply… do it. No person can cease you.
