An replace on American McGee’s Alice: Asylum patreon challenge has revealed that EA will not be taking up a sequel to the 2000 and 2011 Alice collection, which creator McGee has been attempting to get made for one thing like (opens in new tab) six years now (opens in new tab). McGee says EA is neither excited about funding the challenge itself nor licensing the Alice IP to McGee.
“They’ve finally determined to cross on the challenge primarily based on an inner evaluation of the IP, market circumstances, and particulars of the manufacturing proposal. On the query of licensing, they replied that “Alice” is a vital a part of EA’s total sport catalog, and promoting or licensing it isn’t one thing they’re ready to do proper now,” stated McGee in a put up titled “Finish of the Journey (opens in new tab)” on the Alice: Asylum Patreon challenge.
The Alice: Asylum challenge has been an effort by McGee to place collectively an in depth pitch doc with artwork and ideas to be able to get EA to fund a sequel or enable it to be made through licensing the world. After creating world paperwork and descriptions over the course of the previous yr, all of which you’ll be able to learn on-line (opens in new tab), McGee lastly began correctly pitching the challenge in February with a very bizarre video (opens in new tab).
It is actually sort of bizarre that EA would say it considers Alice an “vital a part of EA’s total sport catalog” seeing because the final Alice sport to return out was in 2011. You understand, 12 years in the past. Sufficient time in even slow-paced improvement land for 2 or three sequels to have been developed and launched. I do know I deal with an important concepts I’ve had in the identical means: Go away them on a shelf and pay no consideration to them in any respect.
As for McGee, properly, he says that is the tip of issues for his Alice: Asylum challenge, and for his involvement with not simply the Alice world however sport manufacturing typically.
“In my view, I’ve additionally reached an endpoint with “Alice” and with sport manufacturing on the whole. I’ve no different concepts or vitality left to use towards getting a brand new Alice sport made. Nor do I’ve any curiosity in pursuing new sport concepts inside the context of the present surroundings for sport improvement,” he stated.
“If somebody does handle to persuade EA to make “Asylum,” I want to clarify that, from this level ahead, I’ve no want to be concerned with that or another Alice-related improvement,” stated McGee.
In order that’s it for a bizarre, multi-year saga within the wild world of sport improvement. Bid farewell to the Alice IP, I suppose. Or simply make your personal darkly-inflected Alice in Wonderland themed sport. It is public area. You may simply… do it. No one can cease you.
