Bungie’s undertaking Gummy Bears was reportedly shifted to a brand new workforce, and now a brand new report has shed a bit of sunshine on what it could be like.
A number of adjustments have been going down at Bungie over the previous 12 months, one of the notable and unlucky clearly being the very fact 220 workers have been laid off final July. There have been additionally claims that 40 workers from Bungie engaged on its incubation undertaking have been moved to a brand new studio at PlayStation, and in a brand new report from The Sport Publish this explicit undertaking, Gummy Bears, is a MOBA with an fascinating supply of inspiration: Tremendous Smash Bros. This apparently comes from a number of sources accustomed to the undertaking, talking beneath anonymity as a consequence of being unable to talk about the sport publicly.
One key space the place the sport is taking inspiration from Smash Bros is that as a substitute of well being bars, like many different video games and most different MOBAs have, it makes use of a percentage-based harm system. Like in Smash Bros, gamers can get knocked again additional and additional relying on how excessive their share is, and might even be hit off the map totally. There’s additionally apparently a number of recreation modes, and three primary class varieties together with help, assault, and defence. One supply defined that it will likely be doable to hang around with buddies between matches and categorical their identities in recreation, which presumably means customisation choices.
The sport’s aesthetic has been described as lo-fi, cosy, and vibrant, in an try to attraction to a youthful viewers than what Bungie has in Future, and it is apparently been in improvement for not less than three years. If this report is true, it might be fairly an fascinating tackle the MOBA style, however in an period when largely solely pre-established reside service titles are doing effectively, there’s lots of questions as to the place Gummy Bears would possibly slot in.