There are at the moment three Silent Hill video games we find out about within the works. There’s Bloober Crew’s remake of Silent Hill 2, a prequel set in Japan known as Silent Hill F, and No Code’s Silent Hill: Townfall. However there’s additionally a game-adjacent mission known as Silent Hill: Ascension being made by Genvid Leisure, an interactive streaming collection the place viewers can vote to determine how components of the story end up.
Ascension’s set to start on October 31, and whereas the advertising and marketing makes a giant deal about how viewers will “form Silent Hill canon ceaselessly”, there’s loads of skepticism about what feels like Twitch Chat Performs Trauma-based Survival Horror, particularly concerning the actual fact the cell model mentions in-app purchases.
Jacob Navok, CEO of Genvid and government producer of Silent Hill: Ascension, has been explaining the idea on Twitter, clarifying that each one the episodes will be watched at no cost, both on cell or different platforms, and “if individuals are afraid of bizarre F2P monetization, it isn’t a sport. We do not promote magic swords to degree you up for PvP arenas.”
Navok compares the in-app buy to a Twitch subscription, saying, “IAP is much like Twitch channel perks and customization of the neighborhood viewing expertise. We’ll have puzzles you are able to do every day, chat emotes and stickers to unlock, and so forth. If folks need to flip off chat, they will do this too. Then it simply turns into like Netflix.”
Silent Hill: Ascension will start with a stay premiere streamed on October 31 at 9pm ET/6pm ET, which can be obtainable to view afterwards as a higher-res video-on-demand. Individuals who favor to observe the VOD model will nonetheless be capable of vote, with Navok saying, “You don’t want to be there stay. There are some issues which can be solely obtainable stay, however I set a rule early in manufacturing that something that modifications story final result wants to have the ability to be participated in asynchronously.”
Genvid can be engaged on an interactive collection based mostly on Borderlands known as Borderlands EchoVision Reside, and one set within the DC Universe.