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“Now that my hyperventilation has begun to wear off, I’m ready to start sharing some of the details,” wrote founder of Soma Games, Chris Skaggs, in a blog post.

“For several months we’ve been hinting, being coy, posting images here-and-there but not really saying anything concrete about what we’ve been working on. There’s good reason for that and no small part is simply the legal things where any cart-before-horse announcements would earn us well-deserved hot water, but all of that is over now,” Mr. Skaggs wrote.

Based out of Newberg, Oregon, Soma Games develops games that they feel express Christian values. The studio maintains that its games have nothing to do with Christianity itself, but that it develops games founded on Christian thought.

In the blog post, the studio wanted to make it clear to fans of the series to know that this won’t be an influence on the game.

“To long-standing secular Redwall fans: Fear not! We are not making a ‘Christian’ video game. To Soma Games fans who know about our faith: Fear not! We are not making Diablo for Mice.”

“Redwall is Brian Jacques’ legacy, not ours. We are only honoured to ride his haywain for a few miles.”

In the post, the company warns fans not to get too excited yet. Of the Redwall projects have cropped up over the years, only a few have yielded anything close to anything real.

It seems worth being cautious at this point, sceptical even, for the sake of preventing any mixups. It’s super early in our progress and still many things could scuttle this effort prior to launch. I’m not trying to be a downer – we’re very optimistic, but the web is littered with 15 years of so-called announcements for Redwall games or movies and all of them so far have fallen short of expectations or managed to produce an actual product. With that in mind, to be anything less that cautious would be hubris. So please that take in the spirit it’s given – the big fat grain of salt.

In terms of how the game will play, Soma Games has released few details. From the screenshots posted on the video game’s Facebook page it looks like it’ll be a third-person adventure game. The studio is planning to hold a Kickstarter to stir interest in the project.

The series of book by Brian Jacques has seen a number of adaptations including a television show broadcasted on BBC and on Teletoon.