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Undertow Creators Working on Ender’s Game… Game

By: Derek Yu

On: January 29th, 2008

Chair Entertainment, the developers behind the underwater XBLA game Undertow, have announced that they have secured the rights to Orson Scott Card’s timeless sci-fi novel “”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender’s_Game">Ender’s Game," and will develop the first video games based on it. That’s right, video games. Chair is planning on releasing games on multiple platforms, including PC, next-gen consoles, and handhelds.

The games, which will have no tie-in to the upcoming film (when’s that coming out?), will be based on the infamous “Battle Rooms” from the book. It’s unclear how similar the games will be to one another, although Chair revealed that they would be using the Unreal Engine 3 for all of them. Even the handhelds?

“From the moment I started working with Donald Mustard and his team at Chair, I knew that these were the guys I wanted to do the first Ender’s Game video game,” said Card. “It’s not enough to slap the Ender’s Game name on just any game – it has to be exciting, memorable, and endlessly replayable. Chair shares my understanding of this and I am looking forward to working with them to ensure the game is as authentically Enderish as possible.”

I was really surprised about this, until I learned that Chair has had a long-time relationship with Card, which resulted in the award-winning sci-fi novel Empire.

What can I say? I love Ender’s Game, and I hope they do a good job with it! (But actually, what I really want to play is that game inside Ender’s holographic desk.)

(Source: Earnest Cavalli, via Game|Life)

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