In May 2011, leaked information led to Remedy confirming they were working on a new "Alan Wake" project, but affirmed it was not a full sequel. This was ultimately revealed to be "Alan Wake's American Nightmare", a short standalone game released in 2012 that follows Alan's adventures after the first game that they wanted to release on the Xbox Live Arcade platform. The Remedy team had looked at a project borrowing from zombie and monster films like "From Dusk till Dawn", and wanted to create more of a sandbox mode for players to fight off waves of enemies (which became the game's Arcade mode, "Fight Till Dawn"); they then worked these elements into Alan's story, keeping the theme of "The Twilight Zone" to progress the story.