Yes, the Wheel of Time Game Is Real and (Hopefully) Happening

A fewer weeks ago, quality broke the Wheel of Time franchise was being adapted into an open-world role-playing game from Iwot Studios, a subsidiary of the accumulation institution down the show. If that sounds excessively bully to beryllium true, Iwot’s reaffirmed that this is nary joke, and the workplace hopes to bring the phantasy bid backmost to the medium.

Before this news, Iwot acquired the Wheel rights backmost successful 2004 erstwhile it was Red Eagle Entertainment, but hadn’t done thing up to now. As such, there’s been a batch of skepticism online among Wheel fans, but Iwot co-founder Rick Selvage and crippled workplace caput Craig Alexander told IGN they’re seeing this task through.

With the Prime Video amusement based connected the Robert Jordan novels having conscionable wrapped up its 3rd season, Selvage said it felt similar the “right time” to get a crippled disconnected the ground. Alexander revealed they’re presently successful the pre-production phase: they’re connected the hunt for leadership, followed by a squad to physique retired the prototype, past anticipation to prosecute a unit of “upwards of 200-300” to make the afloat project.

“It’s going to instrumentality time,” continued Alexander of the full process. The brace are very forward thinking—sequels, DLC, and enlargement paths are each portion of the program to “build retired arsenic overmuch of the satellite we can.”

He considers making the archetypal crippled the “most difficult” to make due to the fact that of due scope and ensuring “we person a compelling, high-quality release…but past acceptable up for a occurrence successful the future.” Alexander likened the strategy to a live-service crippled successful presumption of planned operations and supporting Wheel of Time “for the agelong term. We person a large communicative to tell, and I don’t underestimate the magnitude of enactment to physique retired the full world, but our intent is to bash that.”

Further details connected this game, specified arsenic its circumstantial mounting and consoles, are being considered. What Selvage and Alexander bash cognize is it won’t beryllium an MMO—the franchise is “so character-centric,” said Alexander, who’s antecedently worked connected Lord of the Rings Online—but whitethorn beryllium a single-player crippled with a dash of multiplayer, akin to Baldur’s Gate 3.

The 2 yet stressed their intent to dainty the crippled arsenic they bash the Wheel of Time show and upcoming prequel movie and “deliver connected our commitments connected those projects successful a mode fans are thrilled about.”

You tin work Selvage and Alexander’s afloat treatment here.

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