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Crashlands - Interview @ Stream News

by Myrthos, 2016-03-11 13:28:38

Stream News interviewed the Crashlands devs about their game, Twitch and other stuff.

SN: Let's start talking about your new hit game, Crashlands. How did you guys come up with the premise of the game? Did the game stay true to your original idea or is it almost entirely different?

Samuel: Crashlands came out of a pretty dark place for us. I got diagnosed with stage 4b cancer shortly after we had our first successful game launched and had a bit of a MELT DOWN (as tends to happen). We were at the stage in our studio where we could make the choice of creating "another" game similar to what was already on the mobile market or strike out and build something wild and huge. Getting my mortality checked at that time helped us make the right decision, to go big, and also brought Adam into the fold once he finished his PhD in molecular biology. His addition to the team was like putting a jet engine on the jalopy that was Seth and I. With the three of us on the project we transformed it from being a sort of bland mishmash of a bunch of our favorite titles (Terraria, Pokémon, Diablo) into something truly unique. And it helped all 3 of us get through all that cancer nonsense, which is nice.

 

SN: Wow, that's truly inspiring. It's pretty amazing how developing this game created a way to escape that and stay positive. You can tell right away that you guys put your heart and soul into the game with how polished it is.

Seth: To add to that, our concept for the game really did change a lot over time. At the beginning, it wasn't even really a game... it was just a weird place you ran around in, pretty much aimlessly. After Sam came out of his first round of treatments, we kinda stepped back and looked at what we made, and we decided that wasn't good enough, and we worked to turn it into a more RPG-style game. The story elements weren't even begun until about 3 months before beta testing started. So yeah, it grew and changed a lot over its dev cycle!

Thnaks Eye.

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Crashlands

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Sci-Fi
Genre: Action-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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