Friday the 13th: The Game Hits Kickstarter, Will Have 1v7 Multiplayer Action

Friday the 13th creator Sean S. Cunningham offered the license to the developer (and stealth announced it) earlier this year after Gun Media secured the services of special effects wizard Tom Savini, composer Harry Manfredini, and stuntman Kane Hodder.

Last fall Gun Media announced their game called Summer Camp.

The game was originally dubbed Summer Camp and was meant to be an homage to the movie franchise. Think about that… Jason is arguably the most famous horror icon of all time, and we still have no idea what it’s like to fully become him.

So what is the game about? One player will take the role of the psychotic hockey mask wearing super ghoul, Jason Voorhees, while the other players run around Crystal Lake as one of seven promiscuous ’80s teenagers. It was a conversation built on mutual admiration and respect for what each had created. Check out the first trailer for the new “Friday the 13th” game!

As for why Gun Media is not seeking a traditional publisher relationship, the developer said violence, gore, and nudity “aren’t just concepts to consider-they’re necessities”. If you want to help fund the game, you can make a donation over at its official Kickstarter project page. “For Sean Cunningham to personally reach out and validate our work on Summer Camp was the highest honor to us…Friday the 13th is absolutely unique, and no game up this point has truly captured the basic essence of the films – one killer versus multiple victims”. “That love for the franchise that the fans have, it carries a lot of weight with us”. Our goal is to have each game session play out differently, and so far it’s been a blast witnessing these emergent scenarios and seeing how both the camp counselors and Jason adapt to solve them.

The game revolves around being a 1 vs 7 online title where one person gets to be Jason hunting down the weak camp visitors. Cunningham was the director and producer for the original Friday the 13th movie.

DC: So much of Friday the 13th is about creative kills. “The videogame license is separate from the film rights, which explains why we haven’t seen a F13 videogame since 1989”. We don’t want that.