Krafton, Korean publishers PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, have launched a “visible idea trailer” for a brand new recreation based mostly on Korean epic fantasy novels The Bird That Drinks Tears. They’re nonetheless describing the sport as “unannounced”, however say that the trailer illustrates the “mystical tone” they’re aiming for.

Here’s the trailer, which is fairly gory:

Krafton say that they have been working with idea artist Iain McCaig to outline the aesthetic for the world, which Krafton say they’re additionally planning on growing right into a graphic novel and a film. McCaig has beforehand labored on each Star Wars (the place he designed Darth Maul) and plenty of different Hollywood blockbusters.

The Bird That Drinks Tears is a 4 quantity fantasy collection written by Lee Yeongdo, which attracts inspiration from Korean mythology. I do not know far more than that, however I’m totally onboard with any fantasy fiction that does not draw purely from Western tropes. All the extra so if it includes oddly buff chicken-men, as appear to characteristic in McCaig’s art work on Krafton’s web site for the mission.

Krafton introduced they had been growing a recreation based mostly on the novels with again in August, and that they had been recruiting builders to work on the mission underneath the identify Team Windless. Releasing this idea trailer might be an try to attract extra expertise to the studio, and who is aware of when or if there can be one thing extra concrete to see. The Korean writer do have a number of different initiatives at the moment within the works, together with publishing Dead Spacelike The Callisto Protocol and a turn-based house pirates recreation from the makers of Subnautica.