Doctor Who game in development?
According to an interesting report published by MCV this week, the BBC are currently developing a series of new games based on several of their shows, including Doctor Who.
The article suggests that BBC Worldwide are working on games for DS, Wii, iPhone and even Facebook, as they set out to push their most popular brands onto other platforms - something they’ve avoided ever since multimedia sales dropped dramatically in 2005. But, with the recent appointment of former EA and Yahoo executive Robert Nashak, its back with a vengeance!
“We’ve been reactive to the market in the last few years,” said the head of BBC Worldwide’s multimedia development, Dave Anderson. “There were a few opportunistic licensing deals, but we were largely aggregating and holding on to our properties to wait and see how the market developed.”
MCV will be revealing more information about this news next week. Stay tuned!
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I work with a game modding team, so this would have been somewhat interesting, but I think the BBC have missed the point. With today’s game engines and the subject matter you have with Doctor Who and Torchwood, you could do a lot for the PC, the PS3 and the X360.
Imagine games where you could explore the Torchwood hub and have Myfanwy the Pteranodon flying around, even the cells with Janet the Weevil (All Before COE, of course), drive the Torchwood car and the kind of missions you could go on.
With Doctor Who, imagine being the Doctor and having control of the Tardis, using the Sonic Screwdriver on alien worlds, you could include the Judoon, the Daleks and the Cybermen……..you could be a Judoon, a Dalek or a Cyberman if they wanted, and in both universes, custom voices of the actors could be included and you could even write storylines which would reveal something canonly big about the Doctor or Captain Jack Harkness.
Unfortunately, to do that big a project would take money and getting one of the big developers involved and since the BBC are so tentative on the multimedia market, all we may get is Wii games, Nintendo DS games, flash games and Iphone apps. As a member of a game modding team, I think big when it comes to games, but I’ll wait to hear more detail on this.
Hmm,another Top Trumps game maybe?
But I like the sound of the previous comment. You could take control of the TARDIS like you said and explore different universes and time zones. That would be awesome.
There was a game based in the TARDIS previously and it was dreadful. Graphics were badly done and was slow. I doubt the BBC are that interested really.
Well, that’s why you need to give the game to a proper developer, but as I said, that takes time and money.