‘Neverland’ Recreation to Be Produced by Second Star Games

Fantasy-adventure sport “Neverland: A Peter Pan Adventure” would be the first title to be produced by Second Star Games, a brand new U.Okay.-based sport improvement and publishing studio.

The Manchester, England-based studio is headed by Tom Stone, former managing director of TT Games, whose credit embody “Lego Star Wars,” “Lego Batman” and “Lego Harry Potter.” Stone’s workforce consists of many key members of the previous Lego video games improvement workforce.

Great Ormond Street Hospital, which has a perpetual proper to remuneration for variations of Peter Pan, and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, which has developed the video games’ new world of Neverland, have granted Second Star Games a long-term, worldwide, unique license to create a collection of video video games across the IP.

GOSH Charity will obtain royalties from all gross sales of the video games to boost funds for the significantly in poor health youngsters who’re handled at Great Ormond Street.

J. M. Barrie donated the rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street in 1929, after he was requested to sit down on a committee by the hospital however considered a greater strategy to make a distinction. Two months later the hospital realized that he had donated the rights to his much-loved play and novel “Peter Pan or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” to them.

GOSH Charity’s senior model licensing supervisor, Jenny Martin, stated: “We are delighted to be working with expert partners Second Star Games to bring the magical world of Neverland to life for a generation of young gamers. Neverland, a place of adventure and imagination, provides an amazing backdrop to what we know will be a first-class game. What’s more, every game sold will help raise funds to support seriously ill children at Great Ormond Street Hospital. We can’t wait for this next chapter in our Neverland journey.”

Grahame “Chily” Chilton would be the lead investor in Second Star. Chilton was an early investor into the primary “Lego Star Wars” sport in 2005 and each Chilton and Stone served on a fundraising board of GOSH Charity between 2014 and 2016.