How a ‘God of War-like’ pirate game returned after 10 years lost at sea

Nowadays, the sports industry has a protection in mind for many developers and professionals. In the context of a sudden sunset of Coincidence Last September and last March it is reported that Sony has started Backup of its PS5 game construction As part of its major efforts of protection, simultaneous and invaluable cultural heritage of video games has been felt more than now.

But what will happen to those sports that have never seen the light of day, despite their hours, months and years of hard work? Captain Blood There is a game that, led by a fearless pair of GOG Veterans, through the considerable efforts of a small publisher, will eventually see the Safe Harbor next week after more than a decade of lost in the sea.

Last year, Publisher Snig launched Steam Page Captain BloodRafael Sabatini’s Adventure Novel Series, a seafronting action game. Originally developed by the alone in the early 2000s and was planned to release the seventh generation of consoles, the developer’s good plans inadvertently due to the sudden bankruptcy of the game publisher, the game publisher, just three months before the date of release in 2010. Captain Blood Make inactive on a server, after almost a decade, it was leaked online and rotated through numerous Torinites.

“As this happens, it was probably. There was a kind of control leak from someone who was nearing development, who wanted to be checked by gamers.” “It was actually an indicator for us that, Hey, everything doesn’t wasteAnd it was an additional pressure for us to check out who actually owns the rights. Immediately after talking with the rights holder, Snig worked to collect the original team of the developers to advise the process of re -making the game again and releasing the public.

The story between Captain BloodThe development and seizure of the seizure is much deeper and further than 2024, however, with Kliposki and Snig co -founder Artem Shuchuko, the game has been involved in the publication and distribution of the game during his initial development. The history of Klapofsky in the sports industry is deeply running. He launched his initiative as an early member of the International Employment Organization virtus.pro Before more than a decade have passed in the CD project, working towards the development and operation of GOG business. Prior to the CD project, Klipovsky worked a stent in the 2003 pirate Caribbean game developer, which was re -developed to develop the proprietary “Hurricane 2” engine. Captain Blood.

“The actual elevator pitch was that the team, Akhile, had just released the pirates of the Caribbean game published by Bethesda,” says Klaposki. The positive critical and commercial reception of the game encouraged the team to immediately consider potential plans. “We were like, Hey, we have a good engine. We finally know how to prepare sports for consoles. Nowadays on consoles that’s most famous? Action Gender, fighting; The God of God is there, the devil is crying for wine. Let’s do something in the seafood setting on our current engine because it’s cool. So it was an internal pitch: the god of the war -torn game in the order of a bandit.

At that time, Shuchuko was working in a Russian publisher 1c-Softclub that was interested in partition Captain Blood. “I was watching the same project from a publisher’s point of view,” Shuchuko told Polygon. “It is not necessary to be in charge of it, but I was associated with the process.” It was not until years later, even after that. Captain BloodSuddenly cancellation, he and Klaposki will really meet in GOG. “I was doing some business development for Indi developers, and one of my jobs was to bring an episode of the game series in the store front,” said Shuchuko. “And so I met Oleig. We actually signed an agreement, we talked about it, and after that I got a job offering in GOG.”

After working together for seven years, Klaposki and Shuchuko founded the SNEG in 2020, paying special attention to the “Digital Gores and Legal Hell Rehabilitation”. For both, publishing Captain Blood And it is not just a professional opportunity to bring the game to the store fronts, but a complete -circle moment and the opportunity to improve the error of the situation. “There are many people who worked on the game, and some of them work in large companies,” says Klaposki. “But he was always disappointed that the game never came out, because he worked for years of work for years and years for free.”

Since getting the rights to publish Captain BloodThe original team members, called the “Civil” team, have been playing an important role in bringing the game to the modern store fronts. “We were laughing at the game’s project, which has been a senior technical director in Roblox for many years,” said Clapovsky. “They are really happy for the project. Some of them would love to work again fully, some of them want to be released to the project, but most importantly, they want to release it. It is very important. The boys are very good, I was sitting with them in the same office. Mortal shell Game on the graphical side. “

While the former members of the Seoul team advised Captain BloodRelease, it was the Porting House General Arcade, based in Singapore and Malaysia, who went on to bring the game according to modern hardware. “General Arcade is our longtime partner with whom we have worked in major mastering projects,” Shuchuko told Poligon. “When it comes to issuing classic games, especially those who need a completely blowing remistrator or advanced or need to improve the technical aspect of the game. Because whenever you come to the majority of the porting houses in the market, you ask them, you ask them, Can you do this for Remaster? And they are like, Of course unity or unrealistic? And you say to them, OK, we have a custom engine. And so usually the price doubles because it is just an unknown and very complicated thing. But with the ordinary arcade, they are like, Yes, custom engine! More problems! Interesting, tell us more! So they are really driven by the challenge. You can see sparks in their eyes.

Bringing the 2010 era to 2020 means introducing a suit of quality of life improvement, which includes everything from control and visual loyalty to game guide markers and smooth cutsin dynamic movements. Despite these improvements, however, Clapovsky has said that this goal has always been to be recognized as the game because it had its original intention. “There are many things that we can change to ensure that a modern generation of gamers has received the game better,” said Klaposki. “But at the same time, we are not the real creator and we want to make sure that this is actually a piece of art created by the original team, and I think if it gets less score of this game, we will accept it. We just want to bring an experience that we would like to continue, but we would like to continue this, but we would like to continue.

Finally, Klaposky and Shuchuko want to do Captain Blood Allow justice and original developers to close this long unprecedented chapter of your career. “There are many stories like this, but I don’t even know that the game was actually released many years later.” “I think this is the first case, and I feel great for the original giant team that they will finally be able to put these credit on their CV, because it is not that we worked on the project that no one has seen and spent five plus years on it. No, it is the game that I think, I think I think, and I think.

“Release Captain Blood “You force you to think about all the games that prevent any circumstances,” said Shukoko. But we all know that there are many stories where the games were in good shape and something happened. Many of these skills and efforts are just sitting on the server of a system, if it is sitting on any server, and it never comes to light. And I think this is something we can just look at as an industry and see that we may do something. “

Captain Blood On May 6, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X will be released.