The design director of Bully and Sleeping Dogs is working on a new horror game

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Mike Skupa, former design director of Bully at Rockstar, reveals more about his latest project in a newly published interview

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Mike Skupa - the co-designer of Rockstar's 2006 classic, Bully - has revealed more details about his new indie studio Brass Token, and the untitled horror game that it's currently working on in Vancouver, Canada. 

Skupa, who also worked as design director on United Front's 2012 action title Sleeping Dogs, recently spoke at length in an interview with Eurogamer, discussing the past, present, and future of his already impressive career in games development. 

Skupa, who describes the game as "other-worldly", explains that it's "a story I wanted to tell that draws on a lot of things I've seen, or seen around me, and people I've met. [....] There are certain elements of my life I've brought into it."

The experience will slowly veer into the realm of cosmic thriller as the main protagonist begins to lose her sense of self and sanity, according to Skupa, and Brass Token's in-office motion capture suite has allowed the studio to create "a small cast of characters so that we can really focus on you meeting them when things start, and then as everything unravels, you can see them change."

"We take things like crystals and sage, you can create these items to craft arcane weapons", continues Skupa, which - incidentally - doesn't sound too far off from the kind of parody that his former studio Rockstar went for with GTA 5's Epsilon cult missions. There's no release attached to Brass Token's first major project, but the studio is currently looking to bring it to PC and at least one console in the future, so stay tuned for more announcements over the coming months. 

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Alex Avard
Alex Avard
Former Features Writer

Alex is a former Features Writer at GamesRadar+, which once made him responsible for gracing the internet with as many of my words as possible, including reviews, previews, interviews, and more. Lucky internet!