Overview

• Over eight months, Schofield and his daughter Nicole developed a new horror subgenre prototype with a small U.S. team and a full crew in the U.K.
• He pitched $17 million to fund the concept, but investor insistence on reducing the budget to $2–5 million led him to walk away last month.
• The cancellation affected six Stateside developers and a full U.K. crew, including Nicole Schofield, leaving them to seek new employment.
• Schofield wrote that AAA game directing “feels like it’s a long ways away” and plans to focus on his art and writing, hinting this might have been his final title.
• His previous AAA project, The Callisto Protocol, was released in December 2022 to mixed reviews and underperformed, triggering layoffs at Striking Distance Studios.