Silicon Knights Granted 500k To Make a Prototype of a Game

The guys currently working on Too Human and other projects, has just received a huge loan to make a prototype of a game to show off to publishers. Check it out:

The Silicon Knights game, which is a third-person action/psychological thriller, will be completed in 2010 and is targeted for all next-generation systems.

“We believe that Ontario, and Niagara in particular, is an excellent place for a company to thrive, and, with the OMDC’s funding through the Video Game Prototype Initiative, it clearly shows that the Ontario government is on the same page,” said Denis Dyack, President and founder of Silicon Knights. “Ontario’s best natural resource is our people, and with all the great universities and colleges in Ontario, there’s an abundance of bright and creative talent. Most of Silicon Knights’ team are graduates of Ontario colleges and universities, and our team members are the best and brightest in their fields. This grant will encourage this great talent to stay within Ontario.”

Dyack added, “We hope that this new program will flourish and help expand the Ontario video game industry.”

About OMDC Video Game Prototype Initiative:

The OMDC Video Game Prototype Initiative is a one time offering that will provide Ontario video game developers with funding of up to $500,000 for the creation of a prototype in order to secure a publisher or attract financing for a market-ready, commercial video game product.

Now many right off the back are thinking Eternal Darkness 2, which was the first thing that came in my mind. But we must remember there are a lot of pressing legal situations that go along with Eternal Darkness series. Remember Nintendo was the publisher of that game and probably still has some rights to the series. And most importantly, Nintendo has a patent for the main feature in the Eternal Darkness series, the Sanity Meter.

So with that I highly doubt that these are one in the same games, unless Silicon Knights is either trying to make a prototype to impress Nintendo in general to publish a sequel for the Wii, or that Silicon Knights and the future publisher are paying royalties to use the name and patent.

Otherwise try not to look too much into this, as it could go anyway right now.

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This is just pure awesomeness. I’m getting Too Human and i know i’ll love that game.....this game they are making a prototype of, it should be amazing no matter what!

alright the clans are back!!!! Lets revive the game section!

Yes 3rd person psychological thriller. Has to be Eternal Darkness 2, but there are just so many legal issues with that, that something has to have been known before this. This is not the first of this before this announcement. Something has had to have happened before this to get this going as just too many legal things involved.

sweet..i love Silicon Knights! and i want too human sooo bad...lol i want it so much my friend and i went by Silicon Knights in the summer and we stopped in and tried the people at the front counter to give us a tour but they said no haha good times.

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