Dead Space creator Glen Schofield hints at retiring from game development after struggling to fund latest project

Glen Schofield – known for Dead Space and more recently as founder of Striking Distance Studios and its debut title,The Callisto Protocol – has suggested he could be done with game development after struggling to secure funding for his latest project.

“Game industry, it’s tough out there,” Schofield wrote on LinkedIn (via VGC), revealing over the last eight months he had been working with his daughter on a new game idea. “She came to me with it, and I immediately loved the idea. Something I hadn’t seen before. We’ve been calling it a new sub-genre of horror – not just horror, but something more,” Schofield wrote.

However, the duo failed to obtain the financial backing which would have allowed them to continue with their project.

“We pulled the budget down to $17m, built a prototype with a small, talented crew, and started taking meetings. People loved the concept. We got a lot of second and third meetings. But early feedback was ‘get it to $10m’. Lately, that number’s dropped to $2-5m,” Schofield continued, stating he and his daughter had ultimately decided to “walk away” from the project.