‘System Shock’ remake on hiatus

After elevating over $1.three million on Kickstarter from over 20,000 backers in 2016, the builders behind the remake of System Shock introduced that the venture is now on hiatus.

Nightdive Studios, a growth crew recognized for remaking traditional video games, introduced Friday that its venture to remake System Shock is on hiatus as they attempt to get the venture again on observe. The announcement, written by CEO Stephen Kick, says that the studio strayed from its growth path and tried to do an excessive amount of.

When System Shock initially got here out in 1994, it was considered probably the most revolutionary first-person shooters of all time and served as inspiration for later video games like Bioshock and Useless Area. 

Nightdive Studios initially promised to remake System Shock in 2016 with a Kickstarter objective of $900,000. The studio gave comparatively frequent updates on the progress of the sport, so the revelation that the venture is happening hiatus might have come as a little bit of a shock to backers. 

Kick, who takes duty for the standing of the remake, stated the crew’s imaginative and prescient started to vary throughout growth.

“We moved from a remaster to a very new recreation,” he wrote. “We shifted engines from Unity to Unreal, a selection that we don’t remorse and one which has labored out for us. With the swap we started envisioning doing extra, however straying from the core ideas of the unique title… The extra that we labored on the sport, the extra that we needed to do, and the additional we received from the unique ideas that made System Shock so nice.”

Sadly, the assertion didn’t embrace any particulars about how lengthy the hiatus will final, however Kick needed to guarantee backers that the venture isn’t canceled.

“We’re taking a break, however NOT ending the venture,” he wrote. “Please settle for my private assurance that we are going to be again and stronger than ever. System Shock goes to be accomplished and all of our guarantees fulfilled.”