Funcom's Dune Game Goes NUKKLEAR [Dec 02, 2021, 12:29 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Funcom announces more about the Dune survival game that's part of its
from 2019 deal with Legendary
Entertainment and Herbert Properties to create games based on the classic Frank
Herbert sci-fi novels. Word is development is being shared by NUKKLEAR, the
German studio behind the recently launched
Comanche. This fits with
the announcement
that the scope of the Dune game expanded as part of a deal with Tencent. Here's
word:
NUKKLEAR will be taking on a co-development role, helping to realize the expanded scope of the title previously announced by Funcom. The studio was also recently awarded approximately 1.6 million EUR by the BMVI (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und Digitale Infrastruktur) as part of the “Computerspieleförderung des Bundes” German Federal Government Grant. The grant will be used to support in part NUKKLEAR’s development and production work on this project.
In 2019, Funcom announced that it had secured the rights to make a game based on the popular sci-fi franchise, Dune. The untitled project will take inspiration from Funcom’s most successful title, Conan Exiles, and be an online multiplayer survival game. After investment from Tencent, the Dune project greatly expanded its scope, and NUKKLEAR has been brought on to assist in completing it.
I am rereading the Dune series now, currently on Book 6 (Chapterhouse Dune). I'm even going to read the son's books 7 and 8, which I skipped the last time.
None of these novels leads me to think a MMO Survival game makes any sense for Dune, but good luck, I guess.
RTS honestly makes the most sense(shout out to old school pre-C&C Dune RTS), either land based or orbital to planetary based, followed by MAYBE a FPS, at a few points in the storyline.
But the movie did really emphasize blade combat, so who knows.
None of these novels leads me to think a MMO Survival game makes any sense for Dune, but good luck, I guess.
RTS honestly makes the most sense(shout out to old school pre-C&C Dune RTS), either land based or orbital to planetary based, followed by MAYBE a FPS, at a few points in the storyline.
But the movie did really emphasize blade combat, so who knows.
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