Telltale Games is committed to developing the game with Unreal Engine 5.
Telltale Games has announced one more delay in the release of The Wolf Among Us 2that will wait to see the light until the year 2023 with the aim of favoring the situation of its workers, avoiding crunch and exhaustion. Likewise, the title will have the Unreal Engine 5 graphics engine as a novelty. In a statement issued to IGN, the CEO of the developer, Jamie Ottilie, elaborated on the reason for the decision made.
“Making games is hard and it takes time to get it rightJamie clarifies.It does none of us any good to send something that is not ready“. Nevertheless, the main reason that they have led to lengthen development seems to have been to jump to the Unreal Engine 5 graphics engine after starting work with Unreal 4. The decision was made as Epic Games’ new engine has a number of interesting features that many on their team, specifically engineers and artists, feel are worthwhile though. involves redoing “quite a bit of work”.
“If we release this game and it’s not ready, we’re going to be torn to shreds.“, Explain. “The expectations are pretty high and we want time to meet them and we want to be proud of it and know that, ‘Hey, this is the best game we could have made‘“. It was a year ago when it was revealed that the sequel could be followed without playing the first The Wolf Among Us, so the project aims to reach the maximum number of players possible.
“I’ve done [crunch]I don’t want to do it again, and it’s not fair to ask“, ends up explaining the CEO of Telltale Games. “It’s been incredibly difficult to recruit the last two years between COVID and the job markets and the growth in the games industry. So certainly burning people or crushing them is the wrong thing to do in the long run. It is not the way to build a business. As an industry, we are terrible at burning our people. We just have to stop doing it and make better decisions“.
The Wolf Among Us 2 will be an episodic game
The first trailer for The Wolf Among Us 2 pointed to a release in 2023, although it will finally take place a year later in an episodic manner. Nevertheless, the developer wants to have all the complete episodes by the time the first one premieres. In this way, the decision seems to be the most correct for the game.