Press Play recently joined us to discuss Project Knoxville, an ambitious multiplayer survival game, where player interaction is key.
Project Knoxville is special because it got voted for by Xbox fans. Press Play produced concepts for three games in total and asked gamers to vote for their favourite. Project Dwarka was set to be Minecraft-meets-Diablo, pitting dwarves in procedurally generated dungeons crammed with loot. Project Karoo, on the other hand, was an open-world adventure game with an emphasis on modular, physics-based vehicle crafting. Project Knoxville won the vote by a considerable margin, and in my opinion represents the most ambitious of the three titles. Project Knoxville is a collaborative third-person multiplayer game, modelled on the dystopian game shows from the likes of The Hunger Games or The Running Man. Players get thrown into an arena and are then tasked to survive objective-based challenges. Similarly to the popular Hunger Games movies, combatants can choose to work together, or against one another to further their odds of survival. All players can survive, but the rewards for selfishness and betrayal may be too tempting.
We were joined by Press Play's community manager Søren Staal Balslev and project lead Mikkel Thorsted to discuss all things Project Knoxville!
