Horizon Developer Has 16 ‘Plans’ for the Franchise, Highlights Challenges in Creating the Multiplayer Game
During a keynote hosted yesterday at Develop Brighton's event, a few key Guerrilla Games developers shared a long list of plans for the Horizon franchise. According to Studio Director Jan-Bart van Beek, there's sixteen of them. van Beek added:
We're going to be continuing it for a very long while.
That's a surprising long roadmap, even if it also likely includes non-gaming Horizon projects such as the Netflix TV series adaptation that was announced nearly a year ago to be in the works by The Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman.
However, the first order of business for Guerrilla Games is pretty clear: they're working on a Horizon multiplayer game. The first rumor on the project appeared on the Web on October 2nd, 2022. A month later, a South Korean outlet published a story about a partnership between Sony and NCSoft for the creation of an MMO based on the Horizon IP.
In December, following a string of self-explanatory job openings, Guerrilla Games finally confirmed to be working on an online project with the following statement:
Featuring a new cast of characters and a unique stylized look, friends will be able to explore the majestic wilds of Horizon together.
In January 2023, an early build leak of the online project provided fans with the first glimpse at the controversial stylized look.
At the Develop Brighton conference, Guerrilla Studio Director Jan-Bart van Beek highighted the challenges posed by the online game.
As people probably already know, we're also going to be working on a multiplayer game. It is a massive shift for the studio, almost on the same level as doing the first Horizon. Building this all out to a multiplayer experience is a whole new challenge for the studio.
It is unclear when the Horizon
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