Several LinkedIn profiles have revealed that Id Softw൲are is assisting Arkane Studios with development on Redfall, which has apparently been in the works for at least four years.
, who has found information through employee LinkedIn pages several times in the past, including finding out that MachineGames' Indiana Jones gam𝐆e h♍ad started production. ജConsidering these posts are made by the developers themselves, you can take mostꦡ of the information as gospel.
This time around the information focuses directly on Redfall, Arkane Studios' upcoming cooperative vampire shooter. The LinkedIn page for senior 3D artist Francisco Cruz III reveals that Redfall has been in developmꦉent since the release of Prey: Mooncrash in 2017, which meansꦡ that Redfall has been in the works for at least four years now.
It's important to note that development doesn't strictly mean that the game has been being actively worked on since 2017. The process is pretty clearly liste🅰d through this LinkedIn post, which says that Francisco worked on the game through its "incubation" period, which is essentially the pre-production, gathering ideas phase of development.
The second LinkedIn reveal is that Id Software, the Doom developers, has been assisting Arkane in the development of Redfall. This comes courtesy of animator Jeff Senita, who also updated his profile to include some of the things he's recently worked on. Within that update, he posted that he haওd worked on "additional animations" for Redfall.
Interestingly, that part of his profile is now deleted, which implies that this information wasn't something that Id or Bethesda wanted the public to find out, perhaps in fear of fans thinking that Id isn't working on anything of its own. This shouldn't come as too much of a surprise though, as it's not uncommon for studios to work together like this and assist with the next big game from the publisher. We've even seen this from Bethesda before, with MachineGames apparently helping with development on Deathloop, as revealed by🐼 another LinkedIn profile.
