I talked to him at length about this, and the ups and downs of his career, in our full interview. It's going to be a free-to-play game when it eventually comes out - a playable alpha isn't expected until the latter half of next year - inspired by successful genre peers Warframe and Path of Exile.īut Dyack's going to have a job overcoming a checkered track record first. It's powered by Amazon's Lumberyard engine and already looks rather handsome. The game itself is a dark, gothic, multiplayer (six player) action-RPG themed around the undead, with classes like vampires and revenants and all things anti-hero. Dyack said he had an announcement to make soon. After all, Dyack hasn't produced much of late the last project he was involved with, Shadows of the Eternals, failed to materialise.ĭedhaus Sonata may also have a development and/or publishing partner. It's also, frankly, reassuring to hear there's an actual, tangible game there to play. Deadhaus Sonata is a 3D narrative-driven action-RPG featuring thrilling combat and endless looting. Play the Dead - Play as Vampires, Ghouls, Revenants, Liches, Wights, Banshees. From the Creator of Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness. An unstoppable force from Deadhaus, you are a monster among men, dealing death and destruction on a massive scale. It's a move indicative of the open and transparent development approach he wants to take with Deadhaus Sonata. Deadhaus Sonata is a Narrative Driven Action RPG where you play the Undead fighting the living. Currently there are just under 20 people there. Dyack only opened Apocalypse Studios a year ago and has had to staff it from scratch. It's a surprising move so early in development. There's footage here of the prototype in action. The prototype represents about half-a-year's work, apparently. In it, you'll be able to play as the vampire character, try a few fancy-looking abilities and swing a few weapons.

The demo will be the prototype you can see running in recent gameplay footage. It's just so people can get a feel of the game.' 'It will have a lot of old graphics, it will not be multiplayer. 'We're thinking about dropping a demo in December,' he told me at Canadian conference Reboot Develop Red this week. Denis Dyack - creator of Too Human, Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness - is planning to release a demo for his new action-RPG Deadhaus Sonata in December.

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