Clive Barker Working on More Games

Clive Barker, horror and fantasy novelist and film director, speaking at the Hollywood and Games Summit revealed that he is working on three unnamed video games besides Jericho. However, he didn’t reveal any details for them.

“Imagining for a book is a very different thing than imagining for a game,” said Barker, according to Next Generation. “My relationship with technology has not been comfortable. I handwrite my novels. Yet when I look at the images [in games] and their clarity, their precision, I think any artist would be a fool not to want to be involved with that.

“There are some ideas like Jericho that I love as an idea but really have no place… I don’t know what I would’ve done with it 20 years ago,” he said. “This is an area of work where artists of every kind have huge potential… it’s a wonderful playground and we’ve just begun.”

Barker has been involved in the games industry before, having worked on the critically lauded Undying. His upcoming game Jericho is being developed by Mercury Steam for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 and is set for release this Fall.