It’s been more than 9 years since Warframe was launched and its success continues unabated. This week-end, Digital Extremes organized as usual the TennoConand besides the announcements of the update Veilbreaker and open world expansion The Duviri Paradox scheduled for this winter, it was above all an opportunity for the studio to formalize the development ofa brand new license, a MMORPGs open-world action and free-to-play titled Soulframewhose mark had been spotted a few weeks ago.
As shown in part by the long cinematic used to introduce it, nature, restoration and exploration will be major themes of Soulframewhich will rely just like Warframe on transparent, collaborative and iterative development with the community. We let’s learn also that Steve Sinclair and many other members of the studio will now take care of soul frameleaving Rebecca Ford to serve as creative director on Warframe.
“With the worldbuilding and thematic elements of Soulframe, we’re really looking to get back to our childhood favorites like The Neverending Story and those elaborate fantasy worlds,” said Soulframe Creative Director Geoff Crookes. “Our team has a deep love for Miyazki and Princess Mononoke where there are recurring concepts of nature and humanity colliding and we will explore many of these themes from our own perspective while playing with ideas for restoration and design. ‘exploration. »
A official site has already opened its doors, available in French, which is accessible after solving a very rudimentary little riddle to finish reconstructing the phrase “Heralds of the Sky of the Odes” in the language of the game (but you have to start over each time… ). The different visuals are also subtitled with this same dialect. Nothing more for the moment than these and a sweet melody, except the possibility of register to be kept informed of development progress, obtain an “Eye of Alca” at launch and reserve your “Herald Title”, which will be our in-game username.
No platform or release date has yet been mentioned, but it will probably take a while before the launch of soul frame.