Bedlam: The Game has just been announced for Xbox One and will be releasing later this year.
Coming via the ID@Xbox scheme, in Bedlam, players will take on the role of Heather Quinn (aka Athena), a programmer at medical scanning developer Neurosphere who finds herself transported into the world of Starfire: a nineties FPS she remembers from her teen years. Searching for an explanation and a way home, she ventures beyond Starfire to discover a vast realm of interconnected game worlds documenting the evolution of the FPS genre and of video games in general.
Bedlam is adapted from the novel by Christopher Brookmyre, however it diverges from the original with its change of protagonist. The novel’s hero, Ross Baker, does feature prominently in the game, but the switch to a female lead – who is a gamer and sci-fi fan – offered a fresh and bitingly humorous new perspective upon the “gameverse” that the player will explore.
You’ll be seeing Bedlam: The Game appearing on Xbox One in Q2 2015. GDC and EGX Rezzed visitors will be able to check it out at those events.