1/15/2023 0 Comments World war z![]() ![]() Karch said that the team (which has been making games like NBA Playgrounds 2K for 18 years) created what they call the Swarm Engine to render zombies on the move in huge numbers. We thought this was an opportunity to create an experience we loved that would kind of be an evolution of that.” We didn’t see any more Left 4 Deads in the pipeline. We wanted to create an experience which mirrored that experience, or maybe the best way to put it - that was inspired by that. “We’re huge fans of Left 4 Dead, and I think that comes across in some of our videos. But this is a different type of zombie game,” Karch added. ![]() And I agree that there’s probably also a skepticism about zombie games. “The flip side, though, is there is the skepticism about licenses. “From our perspective, grabbing a license, especially one that fits the game we wanted to create, was the perfect way to get that awareness without having to spend tens of millions of dollars to make our potential audience aware of the franchise.” “We’re an independent developer, right? We’re fairly large for an independent, with about 450 developers in our two primary core studios, but we still don’t have the budgets of an EA or an Activision to go out there and market a new title, a new brand, and bring awareness of something that doesn’t already have recognizable staying power,” said Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch said in a recent interview with me. ![]()
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