Did You Know Dementium: The Ward Was Originally Pitched as a Silent Hill Game?

Amidst all the Silent Hill talk, Renegade Kid co-founder Jools Watsham has revealed a connection to Dementium: The Ward.

In a Tweet this week, Watsham noted how the project - originally going by just "The Ward" - was pitched to publisher Konami back in 2007 as "something that could have become a Silent Hill DS game."

The team had approached Konami to see if they wanted to work on merging the concept into a licensed Silent Hill, portable release.

However, minutes later, the pitch meeting ended up with Konami stating that they "wouldn't let a team like us handle the Silent Hill license." Renegade Kid also pitched a third-person experiment using the Dementium II engine, which was also met with a "no".

Inevitably, the studio ended up moulding the concept into Dementium: The Ward.

Little known fact: We pitched "The Ward" to Konami in 2007 as something that could have become a Silent Hill DS game.

— Jools Watsham (@JoolsWatsham) April 27, 2015

Do you think Dementium could have worked as an entry into the Silent Hill franchise?