WipEout and Skate co-creators tease a sci-fi sports game and roguelike strategy sim from their new studio
Starlight Games made up of veterans with credits on Resident Evil, Horizon series and more
Former developers of futuristic racing classic WipEout - including the series’ co-creator - have formed a new studio with the co-creator of Skate to work on a new sci-fi sports game.
Starlight Games is made up of devs including former Psygnosis veterans Gary Nichols and Nick Burcombe, and Skate co-creator Andy Santos, who also counts Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and Horizon Zero Dawn VR spin-off Call of the Mountain among his credits.
While the name is new, the team is technically not, having worked together as Atomicom for over a decade. The shift to Starlight apparently comes as part of an effort to create new IP rather than their past focus as work-for-hire.
Starlight plans to hit the ground running with a number of games already in the works, including this summer’s House of Golf 2 - a sequel to Atomicom’s 2019 crazy golf game - and two sci-fi games that hew closer to their legacy on WipEout.
The first being teased is an untitled “futuristic sports game” directed by Burcombe. Its brief teaser trailer shows a bunch of people in sci-fi-looking suits rendered sharply in Unreal Engine 5 - Dead Space-like spine panels, check; glossy full-face helmets, check - before promising “the future of sports” at its end.
The second is described only as a "rogue-like science fiction strategy simulation management game”. (Thanks, GI.biz.)
The untitled futuristic sports game is due to get a full reveal in the next few months, with no word on when we might see more of the sci-fi roguelike.