Roland Emmerich dabbled in video games

It’s an old love story between Roland Emmerich and science fiction. But this time, the father of Independence Day and other Moonfalls is working on a big transmedia project. Code name: space nation.

For its implementation, the filmmaker managed to collect 50 million dollars during the first round of financing from interested investors, waiting for the second fund planned for the fall of this year.

It will definitely be a series space opera, a series of animated shorts, as well as a massively multiplayer game. It is the latter that should start. An alpha test release is planned for August 2023, with a release window planned for mid-2024.

The title puts players in the shoes of the captain of a spaceship traversing a galaxy in which three factions are at war, each with their own ideologies and goals. To get things right, Roland Emmerich surrounded himself with veterans of the video game industry. He was joined by Jerome Wu, who worked on Blizzard’s Indestructible MMORPG, World of Warcraft. Like Tony Tang, who was working on another solid online game at the same time, Warframe.

“Hollywood’s growing interest in video games reflects a wider recognition of games’ popularity and storytelling potential.” Commented the filmmaker along with the announcement of his project space nation. “The expanded world we’re building at Space Nation is a tremendous opportunity to captivate audiences everywhere they consume entertainment with innovative new forms of storytelling.”

So much for declaration of intent and confession of faith. Still waiting for the distant release of this Space Nation onlineYou can already see what it looks like on Collider’s site, which has an exclusive on hand On several in-game visuals. It’s pretty cool, but we’ll just have to wait and see how it all comes to life.