Fresh off the success of this year’s hit Metroidvania sequel Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry is now looking to the studio’s future, announcing that, apart from plans to develop a DLC for the title, the team wants to make a brand new game instead of another follow-up.
This comes from an interview with Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, where Team Cherry spoke on their plans to develop a Silksong DLC, while also discussing what comes next. “We do have other games that we plan to make,” said co-founder Ari Gibson when asked about their plans to move to another game.
“The only time concern really is — and we’ve talked about this before — death. It’s not that far off if you spend seven years per project, and potentially add another two. So it’d be nice to do a few more games. Apparently, our timeframe still allows us to fit a few more in. Short of an unexpected tragedy.” Although the team did not go into further detail on this planned new game series,
Although slightly morbid, Gibson’s concerns do ring true, considering how lengthy game development cycles are nowadays. This sentiment was also echoed by other game developers too, such as Hideo Kojima, who previously spoke on how he reflected on his own mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to him creating a USB stick with all his ideas to pass down to his successors at Kojima Productions.
While Team Cherry is now planning to move on from the Hollow Knight franchise, that’s not to say that it has entirely abandoned the IP, with Gibson adding that “that’s not to say we won’t return to these Hollow Knight worlds. We do have ideas around what forms those would take. But we also don’t want to be exclusively people that make Hollow Knight.” It’s all about balance, after all.
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