Telltale has introduced The Wolf Amongst Us 2 will not launch in 2023, however has been delayed into 2024 as the event workforce switches from utilizing Unreal Engine 4 to the newest Unreal Engine 5.
“We all know, it’s irritating to listen to,” the studio wrote in an announcement posted to Twitter. Whereas The Wolf Amongst Us 2 was first introduced again in 2019, the choice to announce it then was made with out pondering a world pandemic would get in the way in which.
Talking in an interview with IGN, Telltale’s chief government officer Jamie Ottilie elaborated past what the assertion supplies, explaining that whereas the swap to Unreal Engine 5 is a principal explanation for the delay, avoiding burnout and never transport an unfinished recreation are additionally a part of the choice.
“Making video games is troublesome and so they want time to be proper, and it doesn’t do any of us any good to ship one thing that’s not prepared.”
Ottilie additionally speaks on how his model of Telltale is not going to fall into the identical crunch habits of the previous Telltale.
“I’ve completed [crunch], and I don’t wish to do it once more, and it’s not honest to ask it. You possibly can’t plan a enterprise round it. So yeah, a part of it’s about sustaining a wholesome work tradition. We don’t wish to burn out our good folks.
It has been extremely troublesome to recruit the final two years between COVID and the labor markets and the expansion within the video games trade. So definitely, burning folks out or grinding them down is the mistaken factor to do long-term.
It’s not the way you construct a enterprise. And as an trade, we’re horrible about it. We burn our folks out. We burn our greatest folks out quicker. And as an trade, if we’re going to proceed to develop, now we have to cease it. We simply should cease doing it and make higher selections.”
In the meantime, these ready for a brand new Telltale recreation gained’t have to attend all that lengthy, because the studio’s tackle The Expanse continues to be set to reach this 12 months.
Supply – [Telltale, IGN]
