Project 3


 * 1) Project3, also referred to as #ProjectIII, is the third title being produced by Gory Detail.

On October 10th of 2018, Gory Detail tweeted out the following:

"We don't really do Spiritual but we doff our cap...Conker Lives!"

Later, on October 19th, Chris Seavor tweeted the following from his personal account, with a link to Rusty Pup's product page on Steam:

"Okay! It's official ! The KICKSTARTER for the spirtual successor to CONKER'S BAD FUR DAY has gone live... Pledge here !! 😜 #project3"

He then, later the same day, made a series of tweets clarifying what he was talking about:

"1/ Spiritual Successor : Now, this is an interseting phrase that can be interpreted in a number of ways but for myself is a much more complex proposition than simply remaking something from yesteryear...

2/ It's all about the 'essesnce' of that older thing. The tone, the feels, the pallette.. That sort of thing, which means it can in theory be anything, so long as it's within these specific boundaires.

3/ So a spiritual successor to Conker, doesn't neccessarily mean an anthropomorphic protangonist, jumping around and drinking ? It really doesn't. That's not what Conker was in 'essence', to my mind.

4/ So.................... What is it then ? Well, iI have an idea and now we have the engine and the gang to make it happen i think it's time.... And no, it's not a Rodent called Bonker, and he isn;t having any kind of day, Good or Bad 😋"

Then on October 23rd, he made another tweet on the matter, accompanied by a picture:

"No 'Vertical Slice' for a long while.... 'Horizontal Slice', though....... #ProjectIII"



Seavor later gave an interview about The Unlikely Legend of Rusty Pup in which he spoke about #ProjectIII.

"I've had this idea for a while, [...] I don't know if you remember this prototype that we did called Urchin at Rare? It was a dark fantasy game with a female protagonist. We started work on it shortly after Conker. But it got abandoned as we started on a new Perfect Dark. I always wanted to do a game like Urchin. A lot of people ask me about it, because they think it sounded great. And I agree."

He goes on to clarify that the game will be in the same engine as Rusty Pup, and not be a 3D title like the original Urchin pitch.

"With Yooka-Laylee, [Playtonic's] idea for a spiritual successor was very literal, which was fine. But I think I could do something that is Conker in essence, but is actually something completely new. I've worked something out that people would see and think 'I can see Conker'. There will be little characters that are a bit bizarre, with cartoon violence... comedy, but a lot darker. We'll do movie parodies, but we'll focus on horror films. It will have all these Conker-like elements, but don't expect an anthropomorphic squirrel, or cute visuals. People might see it and go 'that's not Conker', but I think they'll get what I'm doing."

Seavor also makes mention of being tentatively open to at least showing a publisher a demo and seeing how things go from there.