The studio is being headed up by former Xbox Live general manager Daniel McCulloch with creative leadership by Deran Chun and Chris "Cuz" Parry, both of who were part of Black Box, an EA subsidiary and the studio behind the original Skate games that was shut down in 2013. The Canadian studio is hiring up for lots of roles, so we presume that development is still relatively early on. Who's developing Skate?Ī few months after announcing a new Skate, EA revealed it formed new studio Full Circle to handle development on the next Skate game. No specifics yet about the mechanics for the collabozones, of course, but the devs described a recent playtest where a player threw together a "huge mega ramp" in a collabozone, attracting their fellow testers to hurl themselves down-and build off of-the monolithic impromptu incline. Skate's multiplayer will have cooperative park-buildingįull Circle hasn't fully detailed what Skate's multiplayer will look like, aside from a passing mention during this dev video that it'll be "massive multiplayer." The one thing we do know about this MMO-style Skate experience is that it'll apparently feature "collabozones"-areas in the Skate's city of San Vansterdam where players can collaboratively build out a skate-park with each other in real time. Sort of like Skate's version of a private match that you can initiate on the fly. Throwdowns: User-initiated, customizable, competitive activities that you can place anywhere on the map.Community Events: Carnival game-like public activities meant to celebrate the spirit of the cherished Skate pastime of hurling your skater's aggrieved body around like a meaty sock puppet.An example given was that a Pop-Up might appear requiring players to cooperatively earn 50,000 points in an area. Pop-Ups: Dynamic, cooperative city events.
Here, they rotate out regularly, so you've got a reliable set of new things to do Challenges: Bite-size, solo objectives like those in previous Skate games.Here's the four activity concepts Full Circle is currently working with: As you complete them, you'll earn rewards depending on the activity's difficulty, which increase in level from "Own It," to "Crush It," to "Shut It Down." In its Board Room series on YouTube, Full Circle listed four main types of activity concepts that they're working with for Skate. What will Skate's gameplay activities be like? If you're looking for more Skate, check in on the Skate YouTube channel, where Full Circle regularly uploads gameplay highlights from playtests. That build, some footage of which you can see on Twitter or on Reddit if you're so inclined, is from an even earlier version than what's shown in the Still Working On It video, and should be considered even less representative of what the game might look like. The game's still very much in its early stages, with the video describing itself as "pre-pre-pre-alpha gameplay." Gridboxes and untextured meshes abound here, but even so, seeing the fluidity and realistic motion of a Skate sequel with 2022 tech is a delight to look at.Īlso worth noting: shortly after the release of the Still Working On It video, Full Circle had to release a statement to acknowledge that a cracked version of an internal development build of the game had leaked into the wild. Latest Games Coming Soon Free-To-Play EA SPORTS EA Originals Games Library EA app Deals PC PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Mobile Pogo EA Play The EA app Competitive Gaming EA Play Live Playtesting Company EA Studios Careers Our Technology EA Partners News Inside EA Our Commitments Positive Play Inclusion & Diversity Social Impact People & Culture Environment Help Forums Player and Parental Tools Accessibility Press Investors Latest Games Coming Soon Free-To-Play EA SPORTS EA Originals Games Library EA app Deals PC PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Mobile Pogo EA Play The EA app Competitive Gaming EA Play Live Playtesting Company EA Studios Careers Our Technology EA Partners News Inside EA Our Commitments Positive Play Inclusion & Diversity Social Impact People & Culture Environment Help Forums Player and Parental Tools Accessibility Press Investors Sorry, the page you were looking for can’t be found.With this "Still Working On It" video, the Skate devs at Full Circle finally gave us a glimpse at the upcoming skating sequel, proving its development is still very much alive and kickflipping. 404 - Official EA Site EA Play FIFA 23 F1™ 22 Madden NFL 23 Apex Legends Battlefield™ 2042 The Sims 4