They’d never make a Lego Shaun Of The Dead game (10:10 Games)
From many of the same people behind the Lego movie titles comes a new co-op video game featuring everything from Hot Fuzz to Jurassic World.
Even if they’ve never bought one themselves, there can be few people in the Western world that don’t know what a Funko Pop is. The brand of distinctive, large-headed vinyl figures spans a bewildering range of pop culture intellectual properties (IPs). Fuelled by the establishment of new British developer 10:10 Games, Funko is about to enter the world of video games, with a title based on the toys and their interpretation of a handful of famous movies and TV shows.
Funko Fusion will knit together more than 20 beloved IPs, including some which have never before featured in video games, most notably Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Jaws. The game will also pay homage to the likes of Masters Of The Universe, the original Battlestar Galactica, Invincible, Jurassic World, The Thing, Five Nights At Freddy’s, Xena: Warrior Princess, and The Walking Dead.
You may imagine that this means it will take a similar approach to the Lego movie games and you’d be absolutely right. Not uncoincidentally, 10:10 Games (based in Warrington) was founded by luminaries of Traveller’s Tales/TT Games, and many of them have worked on some of the older Lego titles.
10:10’s Head of Publishing, Arthur Parsons, explained to us how the studio came into being: ‘I worked at Traveller’s Tales for 20-odd years. My boss here at 10:10, Jon Burton, was the original founder of Traveller’s Tales. Covid taught all of us different things. Sitting at home for the best part of two years, I just thought if I don’t leave now, for something new and exciting and different as a creative challenge, I never would.
‘So I made the decision to leave TT Games in 2021. Shortly after I left, Jon phoned me up and asked: ‘Do you want to do something new? I want to start a new studio and I want to create a new gaming franchise with Funko’.’
Funko was keen to enter the world of video games and the newly established 10:10 Games partnered with NBC Universal, opening up a vast pot of IPs which could go into Funko Fusion. ‘NBC Universal have got stuff that’s cool from when I was a kid, but they’ve also got stuff that’s current now, and everything in-between,’ says Parsons.
‘For us it was great: if we could bring in Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz and mix them up with everything else, they would bring a broader and different audience; the game is going to appeal, hopefully, to everyone between the age of 13 and 50+.’
We looked at it as a bit of a pie chart: what IP could we get that would appeal to people in their thirties, forties, twenties: looking at each of the different decades? I grew up watching Masters Of The Universe in …read more
Source:: Metro
