Former professional CS:GO player turned content creator Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek <\/strong>and content creator Chris \u2018Sacriel\u2019 Ball<\/strong> have joined forces with game developer Splash Damage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
The collaboration will see Shroud and Sacriel advise on a new survival game codenamed Project Astrid.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
Shroud and Sacriel will act as Executive Creators to collaborate with the developer to create Project Astrid. Splash Damage, the team behind titles such as Gears Tactics and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, will leverage the creators’ knowledge and experience to develop a game ‘worthy of the genre’.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
Prior to becoming a content creator, Shroud competed in CS:GO between 2013 and 2017 for the likes of Complexity and Cloud9. After calling time on his CS:GO career, the content creator accumulated a following of 10m on his Twitch channel. In 2022, Shroud returned to esports, signing with the Sentinels’ VALORANT roster but has since left the organisation.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
From an esports perspective, the survival genre rarely features in competitive play. Despite this, streaming platform Twitch <\/strong>often hosts Twitch Rivals tournaments using titles such as Rust and Minecraft.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n
This isn’t the first instance of esports players assisting with game development. In March 2022, former Call of Duty player Patrick ‘Aches’ Price <\/strong>joined Ubisoft<\/a> to collaborate on new arena shooter XDefiant.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
Shroud, the newly appointed Executive Creator for Project Astrid, spoke on the news: \u201cThis project means everything to me.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n
“We want to build the best survival game ever, and with Sacriel’s brain and Splash Damage’s team, I know we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Image credit: Splash Damage Former professional CS:GO player turned content creator Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek and content creator Chris \u2018Sacriel\u2019 Ball have joined forces with game developer Splash Damage. The collaboration will see Shroud and Sacriel advise on a new survival game codenamed Project Astrid. Shroud and Sacriel will act as Executive Creators to collaborate with … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":136589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","esi_template":"default","excluded":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,55,106,237,240,8520,238],"tags":[10261,16010],"class_list":["post-136588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","category-esports-titles","category-latest-news","category-news-by-region","category-north-america","category-personnel","category-uk","tag-content-creators","tag-shroud"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n