He's better known for his fantasy horror books and graphic novels but
Neil Gaiman is launching his first video game.
It's not Gaiman's first attempt to get into the world of gaming. He worked on several in the late 90s, but fate seemed staunchly against it. “What tended to happen is I put an incredible amount of work in these things and just as something was about to happen, the company was about to go bankrupt," Gaiman explained.
Let's
hope for independent games studio, The Odd Gentleman and Games
Publisher that 'Moonshark' history does not repeat itself,
because who doesn't want to see the creator of the Sandman series take
on a shoot-em-up or zombie game?
The
game 'Wayward Manor' is one that Gaiman founded himself, unable to
resist working on it. He admitted that the process “just got fun
and I had to make time.”
He
has created a ghost story and is being tight-lipped on the details,
but has said you're not hunting the ghost: you are the ghost. Even
less usual, you're one that just wants to be left in peace and get
what you regard as 'squatters' out of your lovely home.
If
all this sounds a tad sweet, Gaiman adds a darker note. “I don't
want to give anything away but it's safe to say you were killed in
the 1880's and you were killed for a reason.”
Word
is the game is due out in the Fall and will be available for PCs,
Macs and tablet devices. Fans of his books and gamers alike are
marking it in their calendars.
Words by Mairi Harris
