Dean Hall and Brian Hicks, two developers who were instrumental in the creation of DayZ, have announce that they’re teaming up once again to work on a ‘massive’ as-yet unannounced survival game.
DayZ Creators Working On New Survival Game
Hall took to Twiter to confirm the news, revealing that Hicks has joined as executive producer at Rocketwerkz to work on the upcoming project.
Super excited to announce today is the FIRST DAY that I am back working with the amazing @Hicks_206. He has joined @rocketwerkz as our Executive Producer on our massive (unannounced) survival game. We are about to start a play test! Incredible to be back working with you again!
That’s about all there is to know on the title right now, but it’s obviously in the early days of development right now.
DayZ was released on the PC back in December 2018, with Hicks serving as game director and Hall acting as designer alongside Peter Nespesny. The game later launched for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2019.
Here’s the full blurb on DayZ:
DayZ is an unforgiving, authentic, open world sandbox online game where each one of 60 players on a server follows a single goal – to survive as long as they can, by all means necessary. There are no superficial tips, waypoints, built-in tutorials or help given to you. Every decision matters – with no save games, and no extra lives, every mistake can be lethal. If you fail, you lose everything and start over.
Scavenging for supplies and roaming the open world never feels safe in DayZ, as you never know what’s behind the next corner. Hostile player interactions, or simply just struggling through severe weather can easily turn into intense, nerve-racking moments where you experience very real emotions. On the other hand, meeting with another friendly survivor in DayZ can lead to a true friendship that lasts a lifetime…