Texas Chain Saw Massacre won’t end like Friday 13th, Gun says
pcgamesn.comThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre game is a new project from Gun Interactive and Sumo Nottingham, and with the team at Gun known to be massive horror nerds, they’re among the best choices to bring the classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre IP to its own horror game. If you didn’t already know, they’re also the team behind the popular Friday the 13th game, which sadly shut down its servers in 2020 due to licensing issues. In a conversation with PCGamesN, Gun’s creative director Ronnie Hobbs reassures us that the Slaughter Family won’t go the same way as Jason Vorhees and his mother.
“The situation surrounding Friday the 13th was inherently more complicated than it is with Texas,” says Hobbs. “With Texas, we are dealing directly with Kim Henkel, the sole owner of the IP. We’ve been working closely with him during the entire process not only from a creative standpoint, but also a legal one. We have been as diligent as possible during this entire experience to ensure things go smoothly.”
While Hobbs couldn’t go into detail about what went down with Friday the 13th, it seems the team has learnt from the experience, making sure things are more secure with the Texas Chainsaw IP – especially since the process is such a two-way street.
“After the success of Friday the 13th,” continues Hobbs, “we had a lot of potential suitors contacting us about turning their IP into games. We spent quite a while sorting through and weighing our options before finally being introduced to Kim Henkel. Once we discovered that both sides had an immense interest in creating a game, we quickly knew Texas was going to be our next project.”
The story of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre game actually takes place just before the events of the 1974 film; a prequel, of
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