The creator behind Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding wants to go all Ghostbusters for his upcoming horror game, as he discusses the making of OD.
After the launch of Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, creator Hideo Kojima is in full swing promoting his next title, OD, which received a new trailer earlier this week.
OD is a collaboration between Kojima Productions and Get Out director Jordan Peele, and published by Xbox. It was originally announced at The Game Awards in 2023, and despite this latest trailer, little is known about the game itself, aside from its cast, which includes Sophia Lillis, Udo Kier, and Hunter Schafer.
After Kojima debuted the trailer during the recent Kojima Productions 10th anniversary livestream, the developer divulged how he scanned a ‘real-life area’ to capture the scene, showing Lillis’ character lighting some candles in a room.
The technology, however, has sparked another goal for Kojima, in that he wants to scan an actual ghost into the game.
‘For me, for OD, I want to go around all over the world where [there] are scary kind of places,’ Kojima said on the livestream via a translator. ‘I want to scan a ghost for the first time and I want to get an award for that.’
As usual, it’s difficult to tell how serious he’s being, Kojima went onto explain how ‘there should be a ghost’ in the area they scanned for this sequence.
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‘You hear this cracking sound, that’s actually a sound that was recorded in our studio,’ he said. ‘Sometimes it creaks in the studio or something, maybe the ghost was there but she’s no longer there anymore.’
He added: ‘And that’s why we went to the shrine together with Microsoft to make sure we have a safe build of the game.’
The process of scanning real-world objects and locations to use in software is called photogrammetry and it’s now commonplace in video games. However, what exactly Kojima is go to scan a ‘ghost’ with isn’t clear, as not only are they not real but neither are PKE meters.
If this results in him hosting a behind-the-scenes making of video in the style of Most Haunted, though, we’re all for it.
As well as OD, Kojima is working on a Metal Gear spiritual successor entitled Physint. His studio is also collaborating with A24 on a live action feature film based on Death Stranding, while an anime film is also in development, with an original story.
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