Patrice Désilets has given a strong indication that 1666: Amsterdam will be Panache Digital’s next game, following the release of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey earlier this year.
Désilets mentioned 1666: Amsterdam towards the end of an Ancestors postmortem at Reboot Develop Red in Canada today, while talking about what could come next. I was in the audience so I pressed him.
“How serious are you about revisiting 1666?” I asked because sometimes it’s hard to tell.
“How serious am I?” he answered. “I almost lost my house over it.” He paused, people laughed. “I’m not joking.” (He was referring to the torrid time he had wrestling the IP from Ubisoft.)
“I want to do a game about the Devil,” he went on. “I hate horror movies, I hate the subject matter for some reason, so it’s a challenge for me. I love Amsterdam, I like the fact there was a year called 1666, and I want to do it. I want to do it.