Always dreamed of making my own game, Twitch stars Shroud and Sacriel announce an open world-s

Publish date: 2024-05-16

Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek recently took to Twitter to reveal his latest project. Named Project Astrid, it will be an open-world survival game. The former Cloud9 Counter-Strike player is joined by Chris “Sacriel” Ball as executive creators. They have teamed up with Splash Damage to produce the game. Shroud and Sacriel’s experience as players, streamers, and community builders will help design the game, according to the official announcement.

Splash Damage’s CEO, Richard Jolly, said that the collaboration with Shroud and Sacriel represents “an exciting new era” for the studio, with the pair being “core members” of the development team. The game is currently in pre-production. The details on Project Astrid for now are scarce, it is set to be a new IP, which means it is not a sequel to Splash Damage’s previous title, Brink.

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Shroud’s plans on developing an Open World game

The former CSGO pro Mike “shroud” Grzesiek streams lots of different genre games. Recently with the craze of Valorant fans would see him collaborating with other streamers like Tarik. When it comes to open world experience, Lost Ark is one of his most played games. During the peak of Elden Ring era, he would constantly take on difficult challenges.

Shroud took to Twitter to reveal, “I’ve been gaming my entire life and always dreamed of making my own game.” Apart from Shroud, Sacriel will also be an equal contributor. They will partner with Splash Damage who played a crucial role in creating games like Batman Arkham origins, Wolfenstein and Gears of War. In the announcement Shroud revealed that he will apply his knowledge of playing First Person Shooter games with open world surrounding. This may see the creation of a hybrid genre which sounds exciting. Shroud also expressed his views on the supposed release of Counter Strike Source 2 and spoke about being excited to try it, Sacriel who is famous for streaming Escape from Tarkov emphasized on creating a game that the gaming world has not seen it before.

I’ve been gaming my entire life and always dreamed of making my own game. After years of working with @Sacriel and @SplashDamage, we’re excited to announce that we’re building a survival game together.

— Michael Grzesiek (@shroud) March 16, 2023

As the game is still in development (pre-production), it is still not clear when fans will get their hands on it. They plan to make a completely new kind of game which has set the community abuzz. The IP is being built from scratch, so players can expect new style of game play and innovations. It will be fun to see a new genre of gaming when Project Astrid finally is makes an appearance.

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