In January 2018, the next Instagram post came, which made it clear: Yes, Wild Sheep Studios is still there, Ancel is still involved, and they are making WiLD.
Sony is still involved – in constant contact with the developers
Journalists have now made it their task to investigate in 2018 whether anything is still happening, and indeed:
In a conversation with the French site Jeux Video, it was confirmed by a Sony producer that work on WiLD is still actively ongoing. The team is brimming with creativity and is making good progress.
At Sony, they want to let the developers do their work without pressure. Sony is patient and waits to see what emerges. Sony also asks players to do the same.
The main priority here is quality; they don’t want to rush Michel and his team to end up with just an average game.
Ancel convinced Sony back then with the concept of the game, where you can control animals in an open world. Besides, he is Michel Ancel! That was enough. Sony then helped Ancel to establish the studio in Montpellier. The producer talks to the team every day and visits them once a month.
More about WiLD:
New PS4 MMO WiLD: As a wolf, sheep, Celt, or trout on the go
The game WiLD was introduced in 2014 as a highly interesting title by Michel Ancel, but has since disappeared. The thing was supposed to be developed exclusively for Sony and take place in a shamanistic open world. What can we expect here and what happened to the project in 2018?
In 2014 we introduced the WiLD project by Michel Ancel. Ancel is a famous game developer who has milestones in gaming like Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil in his biography.
WiLD made a splash in 2014, then disappeared
The idea of his new game WiLD sounded interesting at the time. The screenshots further sparked the imagination. Players were supposed to wander through a kind of pre-civilization world, able to transform into animals and experience adventures.
The game was presented by Michel Ancel, who had founded the small indie studio “Wild Sheep Studio” for this purpose.
Does Ancel even have time for the game?
Already at the presentation, it was clear: It would take time before we would learn more about the PS4-exclusive game. But that it stayed very quiet about the game for 4 years was somewhat extraordinary for an exclusive title from Sony.
Fans of WiLD became a bit nervous when it became clear that Michel Ancel would be developing the game “Beyond Good and Evil 2” in his main job at Ubisoft. That looked like a mammoth task.
In recent years, hardly anything has been heard about WiLD. The last thing heard was in January 2017: a screenshot on Ancel’s Instagram page.
In January 2018, the next Instagram post came, which made it clear: Yes, Wild Sheep Studios is still there, Ancel is still involved, and they are making WiLD.
Sony is still involved – in constant contact with the developers
Journalists have now made it their task to investigate in 2018 whether anything is still happening, and indeed:
In a conversation with the French site Jeux Video, it was confirmed by a Sony producer that work on WiLD is still actively ongoing. The team is brimming with creativity and is making good progress.
At Sony, they want to let the developers do their work without pressure. Sony is patient and waits to see what emerges. Sony also asks players to do the same.
The main priority here is quality; they don’t want to rush Michel and his team to end up with just an average game.
Ancel convinced Sony back then with the concept of the game, where you can control animals in an open world. Besides, he is Michel Ancel! That was enough. Sony then helped Ancel to establish the studio in Montpellier. The producer talks to the team every day and visits them once a month.
More about WiLD:
New PS4 MMO WiLD: As a wolf, sheep, Celt, or trout on the go
