First Game From Blizzard Co-Founder’s New Studio Is A Tactics RPG Meant To Be Played In-Person
The first internally developed video game from Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime’s publisher Dreamhaven is Sunderfolk, a tactical, fantasy co-op RPG meant to be played in person, with players using their phone as their controller.
Sunderfolk comes from Dreamhaven’s Secret Door studio, which is composed of numerous ex-Blizzard employees and includes studio head Chris Sigaty, who worked at Blizzard for over 20 years and served as a lead producer on games like Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2, and World of Warcraft.
“The board game table is something very special, and we wanted to create a video game that had those same elements,” Sigaty said in Sunderfolk’s announcement trailer. “We focused on this idea of collaborating together. We’re using the phone in everyone’s pocket as their control interface. Your phone being the controller allows you to have your own information as well as roll out only the information needed at any given time.”