King's Quest (Silicon Knights)

King's Quest was product in development by Silicon Knights up to its cancellation in 2007.

Background

With Sierra gone, and Vivendi Studios began to phase out the label, but continued to look for more developers to resurrect the Sierra IPs in new ways.

Silicon Knights was in talks with Vivendi, and was negotiating development plans for King's Quest (c. 2007). Silicon Knights began development to a King's Quest sequel apparently using Epic's Unreal Engine (Unreal Engine 3)

It is said that Silicon Knights got as far as a prototype before it was cancelled.

The exact timing of when this game began and ended is not clear, but apparently still in development around the time Vivendi was sold to Activision, and up to the point when they shut down a popular fan game based on the King's Quest series (starting a letter campaign to save it). Knowledge of this game was discovered in a 2011 lawsuit between Silicon Knights and Epic games over the use of the Unreal engine. During the lawsuit with Epic, Lloyd's methodology for determining the potential value of earlier and cancelled projects was similarly unconvincing to the court.

Ultimately the judge ordered that Silicon Knights destroy any code related to any games that had used code from the Unreal 3 engine, so if there was anything related to the prototype its probably been destroyed, and there are no existing photos from this game.

The licence would be passed onto Telltale in 2011, but its development no where. Finally the license ended up in the hands of The Odd Gentlemen who made the King's Quest reboot; King's Quest: Adventures of Graham.