Animated anthology collection Secret Degree arrives on Prime TV subsequent week on December 10, that includes 15 episodes, every primarily based on a distinct videogame. From the creator of Love, Demise, and Robots, the brand new collection will reveal two episodes every week, primarily based on classics like Mega Man, Dungeons & Dragons, and Armored Core, in addition to newer video games like New World and Sifu. There’s even an episode about Exodus, which hasn’t launched but, and Harmony, which has already been shut down.
In a chat this week with the creators of Secret Degree, nevertheless, I actually solely wished to ask a few single episode primarily based on an iconic recreation character:
Pac-Man.
I am not going to spoil something in regards to the Pac-Man episode of Secret Degree, however I’ll say it is in all probability about the very last thing you’d ever count on from an animated function a few yellow circle that gobbles dots and will get chased by ghosts. The episode is bizarre and ugly and an enormous departure from the sport itself. Seems, Bandai Namco was completely into that.
“They challenged us from the soar,” mentioned Dave Wilson, Secret Degree’s supervising director and government producer. “We acquired on the decision with the builders at Bandai, and the translated mission assertion was: ‘We wish audiences to marvel what the fuck they did with Pac Man.’ And so we had been like, no drawback.”
Mission achieved, I would say. Once more, no spoilers, however I undoubtedly wound up questioning that actual factor whereas watching.
“They get script approval,” Wilson mentioned once I requested how concerned the studio was. “They noticed all the things.” Wilson thinks they solely acquired a single be aware from Bandai Namco on the episode, in regards to the placement of a brand. “Aside from that, it was no matter we wish to do.”
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I requested if different studios had been simply as prepared to let Secret Degree go fully ham on their beloved characters and recreation worlds.
“I believe it runs the gamut from people that actually wish to intently handle the method to people who say, ‘look, we belief you, simply go along with God,” creator and government producer Tim Miller mentioned. “However our firm, Blur [Studio], has been doing this for nearly 30 years now, and primarily within the recreation business. So we’ve got quite a lot of belief constructed up with people that we’ll deal with their IP fastidiously, and we’re not going to go off and do horrible issues to it.
“I do not assume the present could be potential with out that [trust], as a result of, actually, lots of them are busy making video games,” Miller mentioned. “They do not have time to babysit us.”
Secret Degree begins airing on December 10 on Prime TV.