“If these attractions are successful, we do believe there could be opportunity to roll them out more broadly to other parks in the Cedar Fair system.” Dieckmann told us. Cedar Fair is making a push to add more interactive dark rides to their parks with the “Amusement Dark” initiative they announced last year. “We have similar theater structures to those being used for these projects at some of our other parks, or they could also be scaled up or down to leverage other preexisting buildings.”
EA has several other popular franchises that could easily find homes at amusement parks, like Dragon Age, a fantasy role playing game series also from BioWare, Titanfall, a sci-fi mech shooter game developed by Respawn Entertainment that currently has a sequel in development, or the beloved Sims franchise, developed by Maxis, for another light-hearted family friendly entry. The catalog is certainly deep enough for the partnership to continue and broaden.
“In terms of new digital attraction development, we would certainly consider other properties if we feel there is a good fit,” Dieckmann added. “As discussed earlier, it’s all about matching the right attraction with the right creative concept and franchise.”
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Knott's News: I wonder what Dieckmann means when he says Halon Entertainment is building the media for Mass Effect? Halon Entertainment mostly does Previs work (think of it like advanced digital storyboards) and only recently did final cinematics via the in-game engine for XCOM2. Would seem strange to me if they were involved with the final rendered product. I wonder if they're doing it in-game using Frostbite?
Was really pulling for Blur Studios to be involved, as they've got experience with both Mass Effect and digital attractions at theme parks.
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