Designer Hideo Kojima and Get Out director Jordan Peele are teaming up for “a totally new style of game” called OD.
Having menaced us with the most intense post-apocalyptic parcel delivery simulator ever made with Death Stranding, designer Hideo Kojima has announced his latest project. It’s called OD, and it’s being made in collaboration with Jordan Peele, the director of such genre delights as Get Out, Us and Nope.
A teaser trailer, unveiled at last night’s The Game Awards, shows actors Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schaffer and the legendary reciting a distinctly unsettling phrase straight down the virtual lens. We don’t exactly know what a hungry purple dinosaur (Barney?) or a kind, zingy fox has to do with anything, but the promo’s undoubtedly a showcase for the latest generation of performance capture technology – we really are creeping towards an age of photo-real digital actors.
Kojima has few specifics to share about OD at present. In a statement, he simply says that his studio is working with Xbox Game Studios and its cloud gaming tech “to take on the challenge of creating a very unique, immersive, and totally new style of game – or rather, a new form of media.”
The videogame auteur’s work is known for being cinematic, but it sounds as though OD will actually incorporate live-action footage in some way – perhaps like the recent Alan Wake 2.
A separate blurb states that “OD explores the concept of testing your fear threshold, and what it means to OD on fear – while blurring the boundaries of gaming and film.”
It’s currently unknown where OD will fit in with Kojima’s other slate of projects. Death Stranding 2 is in the works, and potentially due in 2024 or 2025. There’s a Death Stranding movie adaptation which Kojima will be “deeply involved” in, even if he isn’t actually directing it. It’s likely, then, that OD will be a good few years away yet – we’ll bring you more on this ‘new form of media’ as we get it.
