I want you to come into this dark room, I'm going to turn the lights off and turn the sound up really loud.' And we played through this demo level, and I remember feeling like I was going to shit my pants," Bagwell said, laughing. "One of the level designers came over and said 'Hey Wright, we're testing this out. I was like, 'No, I want to work on Dead Space or I'm going to quit.' Wright Bagwell Wright Bagwell, who was working on another game at the time, played through one of these demo levels and was so enamoured with the experience that he absolutely had to work on the game. The executives weren't the only people impressed by the Dead Space demos. "And once people saw that it was a real thing, they got it much easier than if you were trying to say, 'I want to make this totally scary-ass thing,' to which they'd look at their portfolio and say 'Nope, scary-ass thing is not in our language.'" "Having that group there from the get-go and building this stuff without a greenlight was a little weird, but it's probably what got that whole thing working because we could all put our expertise into a pool and make something tangible. That confidence continued to grow," Wanat told me. "Eventually everybody accepted it, they saw how cool the things coming out of it were. Schofield would break the ice on the idea, show some promising progress, and over time, slowly build the confidence EA needed to give the project a thumbs up.
However, convincing EA to bet on an original idea wasn't going to be easy, and it was something that co-director Glen Schofield, now the GM of Sledgehammer Games, would work on for a long time. The team truly wanted to develop a first-rate survival-horror game. "We were so hyped about Resident Evil 4 and we got obsessed with improving the mechanics," Wanat said. No worries, it's still in development, and with a good chunk of the original team back on board, including famed game director Warren Spector.
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