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Blue Dot Games brings ’83 multiplayer shooter back from the dead
Blue Dot Games is reviving ’83, a multiplayer shooter game set in the midst of the Cold War, after a previous publisher canceled the game. Now the studio said it has raised partial funding for its ’83 title, thanks to money from an angel investor on the company’s Discord channel. The money came in after […]
’83 pits the Americans against the Soviets in a Cold War gone hot.The studio has 14 people, and it said it’s proud and humbled, considering that the “gaming industry’s business development crowd is hesitant to invest into new projects in the current harsh climate.” The main premise of ‘83 is its focus on “accessible realism,” a large-scale multiplayer team-based shooter gameplay set in the cold-war-gone-hot backdrop of the early 1980s. Through negotiations and diligent planning, the studio was able to utilize Kevin Green’s undisclosed investment to build a team of 10 senior developers, now working to deliver a vertical slice of ‘83 on Unreal Engine 5 within the next five months.
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