PUBG: Battlegrounds developer goes fantasy with ambitious new video game

Immersive stories and devastating gameplay come together in an adaptation of a Korean novel.

KRAFTON, Inc., known as the team responsible for PUBG: Battlegrounds, announced the launch of the game a few days ago. active development From a video game based on the Korean fantasy novel series The Bird The Drinks Tears. Little is known at the moment, but its authors stepped into the accelerator to step up their recruiting efforts to realize an ambitious vision.

The Bird The Drinks Tears is one of the most successful and acclaimed literary series in the Far East country. Written by Yeong-do Lee, the book is appreciated by readers for its ability to weave worlds with complex characters. Now it will be necessary to see if its components are enough to deliver a video game to match.

And if they don’t, it won’t be because of unemployment. The last two have been conceptual artists at KRAFTON, Inc. John McCaigKnown for his work in Hollywood (Star Wars, Harry Potter and the Avengers) to describe the visual bible of the project.

“The Bird The Drinks Tears is unlike any fantasy story I’ve ever read with refreshing new ways to explore human nature. It’s what appeals to me the most. It’s an epic on par with Lord of the Rings or Dune. It’s all about a new and instinctive worldblending traditional archetypes with completely original imagery of dreams and nightmares,” says McCaig of the project.

A beautiful narrative and devastating gameplay are guaranteed on the project’s website, but we currently have conceptual images that clearly show that the video game wants to keep up with the task in the artistic one.

KRAFTON, Inc. It will also release Callisto Protocol, a space survival-horror game from Striking Distance Studios, initially set in the same universe as PUBG, but ultimately independent of the narrative-level battle royale.

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