Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card is set to write the story for Red 5 Entertainment's upcoming free-to-play PC title
Firefall and an accompanying manga novel, the company announced today.
Card will collaborate with Red 5 on the game's story, and work with daughter Emily Janice Card and artists at Udon Entertainment (
Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix) on the manga, which will also be made available as a free download later this year.
"I got involved with the game
Firefall because the guys from Red 5 invited me to," Card said
in a developer diary video. "Since I think the game is a great one -- the story that they're developing is exciting -- I was delighted to be a part of it."
Card went on to explain the game's post-apocalyptic world, where humanity somehow managed to stay civilized and keep its high technology, which will be necessary to fight off "a whole bunch of extremely dangerous monsters coming at us that need shooting."
"It's an absolute honor to welcome Orson Scott Card to the Red 5 family as an honorary member of The Tribe,” Red 5 Studios CEO Mark Kern said in a statement. "Orson understands us as a studio, what we represent and gets the vision we have for
Firefall."
Card has been involved with video games since writing dialogue for 2005 action-adventure
Advent Rising. He also collaborated on Chair Entertainment's critically acclaimed 2009 Xbox Live Arcade release
Shadow Complex.
A
planned Chair project based on Card's Ender's Game novels was
scrapped late last year.
