Overview
- Studio Reset, which announced its formation across industry outlets on May 20–21, has entered early prototype development on an untitled neon‑noir supernatural mystery set in a stylized Canadian cityscape.
- The studio was founded by Kaelin Lavallée, Kris Schoneberg, and Francis Lacuna, who together hold credits on Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Anthem, and The Long Dark.
- Studio Reset won CAN$250,000 from the Canada Media Fund’s Interactive Digital Media Prototyping program to produce a prototype, pay Canadian collaborators, and strengthen later funding applications.
- The game’s core design centers on “Parallax Deduction,” a perspective‑led system where multiple investigators view evidence differently, and the team says it will avoid ‘moon logic’ so puzzle solutions follow observation and deduction.
- The founders say they will keep the studio deliberately small to prioritise sustainable, focused development and are using the prototype phase to recruit players, peers, and investors to move the project into full production.