People Can Fly are the ones who have the rights to the IP Bullet Storm. With the game in HD on current consoles we ask what doe the future hold for the title that has the player at the end of its leash? Well the company decided to open up on that and more. You can read it below.
“The reason why we went independent was partially because after Bulletstorm and Gears of War Judgment, we stopped working on our own games. We started working on someone else’s games which was not bad; but at the same time, from the creativity standpoint, and the standpoint of developers that want to have creative freedom and develop something they will associate themselves with, there were a couple of years we were struggling with that situation.
It’s a great journey because I joined the company when it was owned by Epic so it was part of the international group and was the house of the Unreal Engine. But of course the most important thing for me from the very start was the success of People Can Fly. Back then it was still a separate brand, so the success of this company was the most important thing, and throughout those years I saw that to be successful, we had to come back to being an independent developer…
Since then we’ve been working on our new game; at the same time, we also launched Bulletstorm: Full Clip… I think that running the game studio through those days was a great ride. It’s super challenging, obviously, but at the same time, being able to develop something and create a new game, to wait for this moment to be able to mark our presence again on the market is a great journey.
Bulletstorm’s future is in our hands. That’s not to say that we’re doing anything with it right now, but the sales of the remastered version showed us the potential, and showed us it’s a real thing and we need to really think about it in the coming future…
Let’s be honest, Epic Games was back then the home of Gears of War. You’re thinking about the game that’s selling five or six million copies. When you have a new IP and you sell about two million, you might be saying it’s not a success, but at the same time, would you say that selling almost two million copies was not a success in those days?
It’s always about expectations, it’s always about whether you are thinking about a new IP that will become as big and successful as the IP that you already have. And I think from that standpoint, it could be deemed not as successful… that’s absolutely correct and true, but I would never say is it’s a failure.”
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