Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is a fictional undertaking by Trevor Roberts, who having began on Reddit has for the previous few years has been posting tales and paintings to his web site, fleshing (sorry) out the story of an enormous creature that’s found underground in Texas and…became a vacationer attraction.
It’s a really cool pitch, like some form of Lovecraftian Jurassic Park, stuffed with absurdity but in addition abject horror, and it has slowly been choosing up sufficient followers that it has been coated on websites like USA Today. Given the success of the undertaking, and the truth that Roberts has constructed extra of an in depth diorama of a world than a linear story, a online game adaptation should have appeared to lots of people like a very good concept.
So final week Roberts introduced that, courtesy of Village Fox Media, a Mystery Flesh Pit online game can be going into improvement, and can be looking for its funding on Kickstarter. Billed as a “survival horror online game for PC”, it could centre across the efforts of a crew tasked with serving to the Park get better from a catastrophe—bear in mind, it’s inside a large beast—that kills 750 folks.
Per week later the Kickstarter—which was very gentle on demonstrations or detailed info on improvement—has been binned, with Roberts saying the choice was made after a mix of “fan suggestions, a fumbled advertising push, inside disputes, and a few deep introspection”. Specifically, it appears the method of handing off work on the sport to different folks…didn’t go properly, with Roberts since writing (emphasis mine):
To those that have been wanting ahead to a videogame, I apologize. Most folks don’t absolutely admire what a considerable endeavor it’s to supply even a modest videogame. I’ve personally and punctiliously created every piece of the Mystery Flesh Pit undertaking, however one thing as giant as a videogame is wholly past my scope as a person artist. When I’m not the one straight liable for overseeing its creation, I can not guarantee its high quality. After this expertise I can firmly state that there might be no endorsed videogame adaptions of the Mystery Flesh Pit so long as I’m alive.
I sincerely hope that by cancelling this overly-ambitious Kickstarter marketing campaign I’ve averted what may have been a rushed and inferior gaming expertise at finest, and an unmitigated catastrophe at worst. It can be my hope that my choice to endorse this specific Kickstarter doesn’t hurt or hinder the superior work of different credible, gifted creators which are and have been working onerous behind-the-scenes to carry you a Mystery Flesh Pit Tabletop Gaming Experience late in 2023.
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“I’ve no onerous emotions in direction of the builders”, Roberts tells me. “It was a mutual choice ultimately to cancel it. I feel they have been just a little bit too bold, and I had a second of readability the place I noticed the catastrophe this was going to grow to be for all concerned. I feel I did the best factor. And, for the file, I’ve all the time been and proceed to be wholly supportive of fan video games. My assertion about there not being a Mystery Flesh Pit videogame ever was, admittedly, just a little overzealous. Fan video games are superior. I simply assume there are already too many video games/films/collection which are poorly deliberate money grabs by burnt-out creators, and I’m not about that.”
It’s refreshing to see Roberts see the writing on the wall and pull the plug like this now, and never months/years down the road—having already taken the cash—like so many different doomed campaigns have performed on the platform.
The tabletop adaptation, which as Roberts says continues to be coming, needs to be out early subsequent 12 months.
