Halcyon Planning Games Based On Dick (Comma Philip K.)
The Halcyon Company, currently best known for holding the Terminator license, has announced plans to adapt several works by sci-fi author Philip K. Dick into games. There's no word about what material the company plans on using from the (rather prolific) writer, but as the company also holds the film rights to the author's work, it's not clear whether the games will be adaptations of upcoming movies or original works based on the novels.
Dick's been a popular source of material for Hollywood, with films such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report all based to some degree on his work, which is sort of the dilemma for anyone seeking to make games based on his stories. Philip K. Dick lives on the page, and moving his work into another medium usually requires taking huge liberties. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - let's hope Halcyon can get it right without adding a bunch of extraneous and overblown cliches. Personally, I'd love a sandbox game based on The Man in the High Castle, but I don't know if the rest of the gaming community would be ready for it.
Halcyon plans games based on Philip K Dick novels [Games Industry]
Dawdle
Posted to Video Games on 24 May 2008
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Wow, that could be really awesome, or really bad. I still say "A Maze of Death" is probably his best work and really well suited for adaptation, and "A Scanner Darkly" proved that the material can be adapted, remain true to the source and still be good, so I'm hopeful.
Previous games based on movies based on Phillip K Dick novels have been poor at best.
I think a game based in the "Second Variety" world would be exceptionally cool. It's got everything
*Post apocolyptic war zone
*A russian VS united nations war
*Flying jagged heatseaking spheres of death
*Robots impersonating humans
*Robots destroying other robots
*Moon bases
Classic Phillip K Dick