Microsoft afviste Secret Level-episoder baseret på Halo og Doom

Tim Miller, resten af Blur Studios og Amazon kontaktede et hav af studier og udgivere for at samarbejde om dedikerede episoder i animationsserien Secret Level, men der manglede en række afgørende Xbox franchises i den første sæsons line-up.

Så hvad er den af? Ja, nu ved vi at Miller faktisk forsøgte at få stablet de her samarbejder på benene, men at Microsoft var langt fra interesserede. I et interview med Collider siger Miller at de pitchede en crossover-episode med Doom Slayer og Master Chief, men at Microsoft blankt afviste:

"The creative director at id [Software] is a good friend of ours, and so are folks at Microsoft, so we made a big plea because one of the things both Tim and I would love to do is do something that isn't currently available in the games, like crossovers. We wanted to make a Master Chief/Doom Slayer crossover episode, and I spent a whole weekend crafting this impassioned letter of my childhood. And it's exactly what Tim said; they were like, 'nah.'"

Faktisk bliver Miller lidt irriteret når fans insinuerer at de ikke har forsøgt at få eksempelvis Halo med?

"I get a little chafed when I read online, and they're like, 'Hold on, these assholes took Spelunky when they could have taken Halo?' Or something like that. I'm like, 'Man, you think that we didn't talk to Halo or something?'"