How Friday the 13th: The Game exploded from Gun Media’s fun horror ideas

Gun Media’s ’80s slasher project, Summer Camp, was an interesting idea lurking on my radar.

But that blip turned into one of my more anticipated game projects when Gun Media announced it had scored the Friday the 13th franchise, and that the game’s design was going to focus on asymmetrical multiplayer. This means one person would play Jason, the series’ infamous hockey-masked killer, and every one else would take the role of camp counselors.