RocketWerkz, Dean Hall's studio, is allegedly working on a new, unnamed game that will be developed in collaboration with Improbable and funded by Chinese company Tencent.
Dean Hall, famous in part for being the creator of Day Z, recently spoke in an interview about the new project, and although he gave few details he did say it was multiplayer and that the studio are "carving out new territory in terms of new multiplayer genres, or re-purposing different parts of other genres."
He also said that the reason for being coy about details is that "I need to avoid a kind of War Z situation", War Z being a copy of Day Z in 2013. He is confident that people will like the idea, though. "I think a lot of people when they hear about it will think it's a niche game, but a lot of people would have said that about DayZ."
Hall spoke favourably of RocketWerkz' partnership with Chinese investor Tencent as well, saying they understand what the studio is trying to do. "As part of the partnership," he said, "and basically for the last six months, we very quietly completed what I would call a revolution in the industry, by pulling some great people out of studios like Creative Assembly, Bethesda, Bohemia - so we've really pulled in some very senior staff into this crazy little country at the end of the world."
In the same interview he also talked about how Valve's Chet Faliszek has been a mentor to him. "He's taken me around Valve and just really given me a lot of assistance in seeing how they do things and help me avoid making some of the mistakes I've made in the past - but also how to approach games in the future," said Hall.
Hall also hinted at "one other IP that's quite well developed and that's getting quite close to release", but we'll hear more about that "later on", again giving very few details.