WeвЂ™ve had our knocks in the studio system,вЂќ with the executive saying heвЂ™s learned from the experience in trying to get вЂњThe Sims,вЂќ вЂњSpore,вЂќ вЂњ Mass Effect,вЂќ вЂњArmy of TwoвЂќ and вЂњDanteвЂ™s InfernoвЂќ made into movies.ДЄfter DreamWorks picked up вЂњNeed for Speed,вЂќ it spent another six months developing the script with the company. вЂњEA was batting 0 for 5 before we began funding scripts. вЂњWe decided we have to pitch the projects as scripts,вЂќ OвЂ™Brien said. That company has вЂњAssassinвЂ™s Creed,вЂќ вЂњTom ClancyвЂ™s Splinter CellвЂќ and вЂњTom ClancyвЂ™s Ghost ReconвЂќ set up at New Regency and Fox and Warner Bros.Д®A and Marks discussed development on вЂњDead SpaceвЂќ during a panel discussion on videogame adaptations at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday. ItвЂ™s similar to a move other publishers like Ubisoft are making with their own adaptations. The publisherвЂ™s Patrick OвЂ™Brien, who oversees EAвЂ™s film adaptations, said by taking more control over how its films are developed, it can push the projects forward faster toward a greenlight and have more of a say in what the final film will look like creatively. SEE ALSO: FordвЂ™s Mustang Races to вЂNeed for SpeedвЂ™ DreamWorks jumped at the chance to produce the film that Disney will distribute on March 14. вЂњ Europa ReportвЂќ-scribe Philip Gelatt wrote a version of the script that EA will develop with another screenwriter.Д®A and DreamWorks recently wrapped production on вЂњ Need for Speed,вЂќ a racing actioner, starring Aaron Paul, thatвЂ™s based on another successful game franchise for the publisher.ДЄfter seeing several of its projects languish in development with producers or studios around Hollywood, EA chose to fund development of the вЂњNeed for SpeedвЂќ script, by George and John GatinsВ and George Nolfi, and shop it to studios itself. The producer had been attached to вЂњ Dead SpaceвЂќ for more than three years, from when DJ Caruso was eyeing the project as a directing vehicle. Justin Marks helped develop the story for the film that Neal Moritz will co-produce. (Those same eagle-eyed viewers might notice that we snuck in a few little hidden easter eggs into the main video because we couldn't resist.Electronic Arts is breathing new life into plans to adapt its sci-fi horror videogame вЂњ Dead SpaceвЂќ into a potential film franchise. Other footage includes test dismemberment footage that shows off physics and early necromorph models. Eagle-eyed viewers will note the preproduction iteration of IsaacвЂ™s suit and some early game UI. We were also lucky enough to get our hands on some extraordinarily rare footage of a Dead Space early prototype build thanks to Glen. Glen spent a fair amount of additional time talking about Dead Space's influences beyond just Event Horizon the 2008 French horror film Martyrs had a particularly outsized effect on Schofield, and some of that movie's outlines are indeed vaguely visible in Dead Space's structure.

(Or both!) TheyвЂ™re coming out of the wallsДЄs usually happens with games like this, we ended up with considerably more footage than we were able to use. Pulling the sequence off required sacrificing some other potential content for the game, but it resulted in something truly great-or truly nasty. Animators, programmers, and asset artists had to take stock of each other's work and become especially cognizant of what the other disciplines were doing at the same time, the sequence itself had to be separated down into extremely granular details and tackled one tiny bit at a time.

Tackling these problems turned into a multi-month slog and required the team to take a development approach that was at once both holistic and also layer-focused. The sequence required its own specific animations for Isaac's falling, struggling, and shooting the animators also had to account for the fact that the tentacle could be destroyed by Isaac at any point along its route. In spite of how smoothly it appears to happen, the sequence is not a fully scripted single animation-the tentacle actually locates and latches onto Isaac programmatically, and where and how it drags Isaac through the hallways is dependent on Isaac's positioning.

It's a memorable sequence, but creating it took an almost unbelievable amount of work. Suggested strategy: snuggle.Д«ut it wouldn't be a War Stories video without a singular challenge to overcome, and for Dead Space, that singular challenge turned out to be the infamous 'drag tentacle.' First encountered in Dead Space's third chapter, the drag tentacle interrupts the player's progress with an unskippable (and surprisingly difficult) arcade-esque sequence where you must shoot the tentacle's glow-y yellow bits before it hauls you away into its hidey hole and murders you into tiny pieces.

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