{"id":55922,"date":"2018-10-18T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/328973"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:39:00","slug":"skybound-ceo-aims-to-finish-out-the-walking-dead-with-100-former-telltalers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/skybound-ceo-aims-to-finish-out-the-walking-dead-with-100-former-telltalers\/","title":{"rendered":"Skybound CEO aims to finish out The Walking Dead with ‘100%’ former Telltalers"},"content":{"rendered":"

CEO of Skybound\u00a0Games\u00a0Ian Howe and former creative director at Telltale\u00a0Kent Mudle held a Reddit AMA yesterday<\/a>\u00a0to shed some light on\u00a0the future of The Walking Dead: The Final Season<\/em>, following the vague comments recently provided by Skybound<\/a>\u00a0on how the deal with Telltale will shape up.<\/p>\n

Skybound\u00a0(owner of The Walking Dead franchise created\u00a0by Robert Kirkman)\u00a0reached a deal with Telltale<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month to finish development on\u00a0The Walking Dead: The Final Season. <\/em><\/p>\n

While\u00a0the\u00a0terms of the deal are still being fleshed\u00a0out, Skybound has confirmed that members of the original development team will be brought back\u00a0to finish the project.<\/p>\n

The AMA also confirmed that the scripts of episode 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0are being kept, so\u00a0the writers’ original vision<\/a> for the ending won’t be scrapped.<\/p>\n

“Regarding the story, the process of developing the narrative isn\u2019t changing, there is a long standing collaboration between the writers and Skybound over story approval and all the same people will still be involved,” Howe explained.<\/p>\n

When asked about how the transfer of employees from Telltale will work, Howe maintained that the team will work directly for Skybound to complete the game, although he couldn’t provide more detail.<\/p>\n

“The plan is for it to be staffed 100% by former Telltale staff,” he wrote. “The only time we’d look elsewhere is if we can’t fill a particular role from former Telltale people.”<\/p>\n

He goes on to describe the role of Telltale staff within Skybound, noting that the transition is a difficult and slow-going process.<\/p>\n

“In the development of any game, it’s often not a fixed team, people roll on and off of projects all of the time depending on where the game is at in it’s development cycle and this is no different,” Howe writes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“That means there are people who were on the team who were close to rolling off onto something else, it’s unfair to ask someone to come back and do a couple of weeks work, especially if that would get in the way of another job offer, so this is just one example of some of the challenges we face.”<\/p>\n

One Reddit\u00a0user asked what players should expect for a “slight delay” on episodes 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0of The Final Season.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I would guess this is everyone’s number one question –\u00a0What I can say is that the team is not currently working on the game and until we’re back into production, it’s going to be nearly impossible to give an accurate answer,” Howe said.<\/p>\n

“What I can say is that we will announce new dates as soon as we know what they are, there is no reason for us to hold that information back, so it will be public immediately that we can talk about it with confidence.”<\/p>\n

After being asked if there was a possibility the third episode would drop by the end of 2018, Howe seemed optimistic, saying: “I’m going out on a limb and will say yes, I fully expect Episode 3 to be this year and I’ll be very disappointed if we can’t make that happen.”<\/p>\n

The entire thread provides more information about Skybound’s\u00a0hopes for the partnership and also provides some behind-the-scenes on how a Telltale\u00a0episode\u00a0was developed, so be sure to read the entire AMA here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CEO of Skybound\u00a0Games\u00a0Ian Howe and former creative director at Telltale\u00a0Kent Mudle held a Reddit AMA yesterday\u00a0to shed some light on\u00a0the future of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, following the vague comments recently provided by Skybound\u00a0on how the deal with Telltale will shape up. Skybound\u00a0(owner of The Walking Dead franchise created\u00a0by Robert Kirkman)\u00a0reached a deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}