Alex Horne talks ‘Taskmaster’ VR game: “It might be better than the TV show”

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Taskmaster creator Alex Horne has spoken to NME about the long-running TV show’s upcoming VR adaption, the “surprise” success of the franchise and the importance of rediscovering your inner child.Announced last year, Taskmaster VR has been created by indie developer Scallywag Arcade and will feature voice acting from both the Taskmaster Greg Davies, and his assistant Horne.“I was very involved, but I did very little,” Horne told NME.

With two full Taskmaster series filmed a year, alongside an annual one-off New Year’s episode and a Junior version, Horne’s schedule is already pretty packed. “I live Taskmaster, but people are constantly approaching us with different ideas,” he explained. “We’ve done a board game and a set of Christmas Crackers.

We’re hopefully doing a live-action, escape room-style experience as well. It would be easy to churn out rubbish, but we really pride ourselves on only doing good stuff.”So when Scallywag approached Horne about a potential Taskmaster VR game, it was an instant yes. “VR is ideal for Taskmaster because you actually have to do the thing,” Horne said. “I’m not sure it would work as a conventional game but with this, players can actually experiment and explore.”The team at Scallywag presented ideas for how the game could work and what tasks could be achieved, and Horne was keen to make it a reality. “It was just obvious they knew the show inside out,” said Horne, who also praised the game’s collaborative development process.