At the beginning of the year Sam Barlowcreator Her Story, Telling Lies and recent Immortality, admitted that he was thinking about returning to the creation of classic 3D games. Then he told that Half Mermaid There is already one such project, which is currently on pause. According to the game designer, the game was conceived as a perfect mix between the classic 3D title and its past FMV games. And they can still return to it – about this publication PCGamesN Barlow himself said.
He also shared additional details of the project. So, for example, it conceived the control of a character from a third person and a non-linear presentation of the plot, which is different from what we saw in games like The Last of Us and God of War. In recent projects, as Barlow notes, there is too much immersion in cinema and history.
That being said, the non-linearity in the unnamed Half Mermaid project avoids the typical choice-based “branching narrative” structure. Instead of “causation”, players could “explore the breadth of the story”.
Barlow cited Immortality and his past games as an example of such a narrative, in which history was perceived as a planet from games. Metroid – the player did not explore it in a linear way, but constantly returned to it, based on the model built in his head. The most interesting, according to Barlow, is in the imagination.
Recall that at one time the game designer had a hand in such cult series as Silent Hill, Serious Sam and Legacy of Kain.
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