{"id":28997,"date":"2023-03-16T21:15:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=28997"},"modified":"2023-03-16T21:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T01:15:15","slug":"shroud-and-sacriel-to-create-new-survival-game-with-splash-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/shroud-and-sacriel-to-create-new-survival-game-with-splash-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Shroud and Sacriel to create new survival game with Splash Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael &#8220;shroud&#8221; Grzesiek, an ex-professional <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"Counter-Strike betting guide\">Counter-Strike<\/a> player and one of the world&#8217;s most popular Twitch.tv streamers, has teamed up with fellow streamer Chris &#8220;Sacriel&#8221; Ball and developers Splash Damage to start work on a new &#8220;open-world survival game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shroud and Sacriel are the latest content creators to team up with a game developer to support a new project, with &#8220;Project Astrid&#8221; set to combine the thoughts and ideas of both streamers and the Splash Damage team to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/games\/\">new game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shroud announced the news on his Twitter account on Thursday, with the title &#8220;It&#8217;s finally happening&#8230; We&#8217;re making a game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s finally happening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re making a game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jrC63CCETg\">pic.twitter.com\/jrC63CCETg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Grzesiek (@shroud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shroud\/status\/1636381929594568707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the announcement, shroud added that it&#8217;s been his dream to make his own game and that his goal is to &#8220;build the best game ever&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Through the announcement video, shroud explains that he feels his community wants to see a new game prioritise the importance of gunplay, and that Sacriel and himself &#8220;have refined a vision for what&#8217;s next in the survival genre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sacriel also mentioned his dream of &#8220;going onto Twitch and seeing people playing a game that I have been a part of,&#8221; with &#8220;Project Astrid&#8221; seeing two streamers collaborate with Splash Damage to create a game of their dreams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the ability to do something really new in survival, build an IP from the ground up,&#8221; said Splash Damage creative director Lance Winter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, this will be a one-in-a-million chance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Shroud and Sacriel will serve as executive creators, providing &#8220;new insights into what fans and creators actually want from their gaming experiences&#8221;, Winter said.<\/p>\n<p>Splash Damage has only released two multiplayer games since their inception in 2001: Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.<\/p>\n<p>The company has, however, worked on a number of franchises, including Doom, <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/gears-of-war\/\" title=\"Gears of War betting guide\">Gears of War<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/halo\/ title=\"Halo betting guide\">Halo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitch streamers, Michael &#8220;shroud&#8221; Grzesiek and Chris &#8220;Sacriel&#8221; Ball, are set to join forces with Splash Damage to create new survival game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":28998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3098,2333,3099,3100],"class_list":["post-28997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chris-sacriel-ball","tag-michael-shroud-grzesiek","tag-project-astrid","tag-splash-damage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29010,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28997\/revisions\/29010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}