Squid Game: Unleashed shows up at Game Awards 2024 with new details

Boss Fight and Netflix games debut Squid Game: Unleashed Gamescom 2024the team behind the 32-player battle party game made another appearance at The Game Awards 2024, announcing that the game will be free and available to everyone – even if you don’t have a Netflix subscription. The game will be launched on December 17 (squid game Season 2 will premiere on December 26). Earlier this week, Polygon sat down with game director Bill Jackson to discuss release and the process of adaptation squid game The game incorporates the dark humor of the original, but hopefully is funnier than the characters in the TV show.

on the one hand, squid game The characters in the TV show never know how the game works until they start playing it. Trapped into deadly situations, they must figure out how to survive, often resulting in several casualties in the process. Jackson emphasized that in video game format, players will be able to face these challenges again and again, so there’s a chance to do better each time and even compete to climb the leaderboards. “In that world where everyone is playing, you can actually get better, move up the ladder, get to the next league and get into better competition,” Jackson told this week during a video call I. “Or you can be a casual player and just go out and play and not worry about it. It’s totally up to you. So it’s still something for everyone.

Of course, “everyone” doesn’t mean this game is suitable for families – it is squid gameafter all, so it’s bloody. But the video game also has a somewhat cartoonish aesthetic that helps alleviate that aspect (yet another reason why it’s a less painful experience than the show). “You don’t want to create a world that players don’t want to play in,” Jackson said. “You want a place where they want to go. So that started to gravitate us toward a more stylized art style. Yes, we did have some early dark versions of that art style, but before we solved that was cancelled.

When it comes to depicting “the cruelty of the world” squid gameJackson continued, “There are moments in this game where you can be thrown up in the air in a pretty graphic way, and if your character hits a wall, there might be a drop of blood splattered on the wall.” But he assures me, The game’s physics will still feel good, as this is also a skill-based game: “We want the controls to be more precise, rather than what we used to call ‘floating’. We want you to have more direct control over your character.” […] We didn’t want the characters to feel unreal, nor their physics to feel unreal, so it felt accurate. It’s a fun, more accurate game than the floating ball or capsule shapes you may be used to in this type of game.

release Will include deadly school games from season 1 squid game;Some of these games will be very familiar to anyone who has watched the show, while others will have to be adapted to fit the video game format. For example, the Dalgona game – also known as the cellular game, where squid game The character must carve out a specially shaped piece of candy – which takes on different forms throughout the game Squid Game: Unleashed. “What we do is we use this to stimulate a level,” Jackson said. “With Dalgona, you’re just sliding out of shape on one level. And then you fail. That’s cool.

“So it was inspired by [Squid Game] Sometimes, or in some cases directly. And then there are completely new pieces that are either inspired by other things or inspired by childhood experiences,” Jackson continued. “They’re basically a juxtaposition of childhood experiences that we all have all over the world, coupled with this brutal punishment for screwing up.”

As for squid game In Season 2, Jackson and his team also created levels based on the upcoming game, but players don’t need to worry about spoilers. release Jackson assured me that the content won’t be released until later: “Season 2 will be in our game a week after the series goes live.”

This is all possible because game developers are able to communicate directly with game developers. squid game team in the process. “The great thing is we have incredible collaboration and access to these things,” Jackson said. “So when we saw the script, we could even say, ‘These work,’ like I mentioned, ‘These are straightforward, easy to do.'” “This, we don’t know how to do it,” or ” We have to be inspired by that.” The conversation happens at that level. […] We’re working with the actual creators and the marketing team to understand how all of this will come together when we finally launch it in the game. But we won’t spoil anything. None of this will happen until Season 2 is revealed to the world.