Jay Wilson, who worked at Blizzard for a decade and most notably served as Diablo 3 game director, has launched a new studio called Gas Giant Games. The studio’s creative director, Julian Love, also has Diablo experience—Diablo 3 through Diablo: Immortal and Diablo 4—so it’s not too surprising that the company is making an action RPG.
More precisely, it’s an “action RPG with survival elements,” according to Wilson, and settling on the concept apparently wasn’t a trivial task.
“Each of our concepts had to pass the test of showing that it would not only be a good experience to build, but a great game to play,” Wilson said in the announcement. “We all agreed we had found the game we had to make: an action RPG with survival elements that we think players of both genres will love.
“A development team’s time is a precious thing and there’s no justification for spending their time on anything other than games they want to make. And man, do we want to make this game.”
The survival RPG is in development for PC and consoles, “with mobile platforms to be evaluated.”
Wilson and company are headed to GDC in San Francisco next week to show the game to…