Junction Point Studios head Warren Spector might be making Epic Mickey now but don't think he's completely given up on "hardcore" games. Before starting work on Mickey, he was actually attempting to make a spiritual successor to sci-fi shooter Deus Ex.

Spector told Variety that he had unsuccessfully tried to acquire the rights to Deus Ex (a series he created at Ion Storm Austin) from Eidos Interactive. When that fell through, he planned a near-future sci-fi game with very similar elements.

"There were and still are Deus Ex stories I would like to tell. That story is not done for me,” said Spector. “[For the sci-fi game] I sort of filed the serial numbers off. Deus Ex was very much a game of the millennium."

Disney purchased Junction Point and now owns the rights to this Deus Ex-ish game, as well as a DC Comics fantasy title that he planned with his wife Caroline. Spector's obviously too busy with Mickey now to pursue those projects, though.