Allison Road was a pretty exciting project that the folks at Team17 picked up. After Konami being complete twats and canceling Silent Hills, the P.T. demo for the game became lost to the ethos. Don’t you just love digital only releases that can’t even be archived! In it’s place developer Lilith looked to take the same ideas present in P.T. and create an original game in Allison Road.
Things looked lovely and just as spooky with Allison Road to the point that Team17 came knocking and offered up the studio a publishing deal. The internet rejoiced that while we were’t getting Silent Hills, we at least were getting something taking inspiration from the P.T. demo. And then things fell apart under mysterious circumstances.
Allison Road was abruptly canceled without any warning from publisher or developer. Team17 has finally spoken out on the cancellation giving the following statement:
After a long consideration between Lilith owner Chris Kesler and ourselves, we have reached a mutual agreement to end our collaboration on publishing Allison Road under Team17’s Games label. We love the concept and value Chris talent highly, but sometime things pan out differently than expected as game development and publishing have so many layers of complexity. The whole team here wish all the best to Chris on his current and future projects for which, before being a business partner, we are also a fan.
That statement sure does keep things pretty vague, and the response from developer Lilith was just as spare on actual details. Allison Road was originally up on Kickstarter before being picked up by Team17, so there could be some issues between the two teams, but that’s just speculation. Odds are that we will never know the real reason (perhaps Konami came knocking), but at least Resident Evil is doing something along the same lines.
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