--- title: The Hollywood disruptors making a large-scale game with... description: Wolf Haus Games, a 12-13 person studio founded by Hollywood veterans (including Joe Dietsch, Michael Abbott, and Dooma Wendschuh), is building a large-scale... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-hollywood-disruptors-making-a-large-scale-game-with-a-12-person-team-and-no-generative-ai-dbjllbn6x twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Hollywood disruptors making a large-scale game with a 12-person team – and no generative AI | daily.dev og:description: Wolf Haus Games, a 12-13 person studio founded by Hollywood veterans (including Joe Dietsch, Michael Abbott, and Dooma Wendschuh), is building a large-scale... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-hollywood-disruptors-making-a-large-scale-game-with-a-12-person-team-and-no-generative-ai-dbjllbn6x og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DbjLLBN6X.png og:image:alt: The Hollywood disruptors making a large-scale game with a 12-person team – and no generative AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Hollywood disruptors making a large-scale game with a 12-person team – and no generative AI **[GamesIndustry.biz](https://daily.dev/sources/gamesindustry)** · 11 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Wolf Haus Games, a 12-13 person studio founded by Hollywood veterans (including Joe Dietsch, Michael Abbott, and Dooma Wendschuh), is building a large-scale co-op cult simulator called Join Us using Unreal Engine and heavily invested in-house tooling rather than a bigger headcount. The studio deliberately avoids generative AI in the creative process, using human voice actors for all 15,000 voice lines and hand-crafting the six-square-kilometre map. Funding came from equity investors Krafton and Lifelike Capital after 80 pitches, and Krafton reportedly required assurance that generative AI would not be used despite its own AI-first pivot. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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