'Yes, everything is voluntary,' he said, 'but in the last couple of months the problem definitely hasn't been finding people. Currently there are two others on the team but the plan is to expand to 15. What has been done, then? Six months of 'true work', said Trotter, and most of it by him alone - he being an inexperienced and self-taught game designer, although a motivated one at that.

are done and all we have to do is build on top of that.' All these things that take months and months to plan, even years in some studios.

'And while we want to add some new stuff and really streamline some of the game mechanics, people forget that, while this seems daunting, most of what takes so much time are things the original has already done: user interface, voice acting, art direction, game writing, skill trees, dialogue, game flow. But doable? Yes, very much so,' he began. 'Yes it is very ambitious, exceedingly even. It hasn't said anything.Īrmed with doubts and excitement I tracked down the leader of the Apeiron project, Taylor Trotter, for a chat over email.

Perhaps more importantly, Disney, the rights holder, hasn't said yes. We're talking about an entirely voluntary workforce taking on an ambitious reboot, not a simple makeover. Yet there are pictures and videos of Apeiron and it looks great.īut there are also red flags. BioWare's treasured 2003 role-playing game brought not only up to date visually but also mechanically, with new content on top. The Unreal Engine 4 reboot of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, known as Apeiron, sounds too good to be true.

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