Game News - American McGee's Grimm Project Slowly Unraveled

Game News - American McGee

   Former id Software designer American McGee, best known for the mind-blowing action-adventure game American McGee's Alice (and worst for attaching his name to the recent Bad Day L.A. political manifesto / gaming disaster), is hard at work on a new project called Grimm. Mostly revealed through a series of concept artworks posted on McGee's Flickr page, Grimm looks like it might be another deranged intrusion into the world of fairy tales - such as Pinocchio, Little Red Riding Hood or Three Little Pigs.

   Exactly what kind of game it will be... we honesly have no idea. But if said arworks - drawn by one Lin Ran - are anything to go by, it should hopefully be more like Alice, than Bad Day L.A. Here's what McGee had to say about the artist last month, on his blog:
"Our latest addition to the Spicy Horse team, Lin Ran, is an amazing concept artist with an immense range of ability and styles. The stuff he's been doing for our latest project is stunning."    You can also see just how stunning Lin's drawings are in our new Grimm gallery. "Weird" is just one of many words that come to mind.

   Aside from working at id Software once upon a time, American McGee was also a creative director at Electronic Arts. More recently, he founded a new game development studio in Shanghai, China, called Spicy Horse (erroneously reported as "Spicy House" by some websites), where he acts as creative director yet again. And they also have a sister game art-outsourcing company called Vykarian. Looks like they're gearing up for some big future plans.

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