Clair Obscur: Expedition 33-författaren är "superimponerad av fansens kreativitet"

Så fort ett spel blir populärt vet vi att dess fans kommer ge det liv även i vår analoga värld med fanart, cosplay, fanfics, tatueringar, serier, moddar och mycket annat. Väldigt mycket brukar hålla hög klass, och ett spel som såklart fått smaka på detta är Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

När vi nyligen träffade lead writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen för en intervju om hennes arbete med allt som rör spelet, så gled ämnet bland annat in på just fansen kärlek. Bland annat frågade vi henne om hon stött på något särskilt roligt eller extra märkligt från fansen. Hon svarade:

"So far everything I've seen has been really nice. I've been super impressed by everyone's creativity, and oh my gosh. Okay. So, first of all, the fan made plushies are so cute. I want them all! Some people made amazing figurines, like Monoco, and Maelle, and Verso statues, statues of all the characters. I was impressed. They're so detailed and high quality. I love all the cute fan art, like the little chibi versions of all the characters. It's so cute. Some people have amazing cosplays with incredible attention to detail, like the quilting that they did on the jackets, the tattoos, and just all the small details, it's just amazing."

Det stannar inte där dock och det har självklart gjorts en del mer humoristiska grejer samt att folk såklart skapat egna berättelser i detta säregna universum. Hon fortsätter:

"There's also the really funny ones, like there was a group of cosplayers who dressed up as Expedition 60 - the Naked Expedition. We don't even have a visual for them in the game, right? It's just a journal. But they came up with an amazing cosplay. They sent us the photos, it was A plus. The creativity is just off the charts. So yeah, there's been some amazing art.

And I think some people have felt inspired to write their own stories, both Expedition and non-Expedition stories. I think it's amazing that people are drawn to create. That's a huge compliment to know that people feel inspired by our game. I've gotten a lot of really wonderful messages from aspiring writers who told me that they've always wanted to write, or writers who were feeling blocked for a while, or feeling discouraged. But after playing the game and engaging with the story, they feel excited again. They feel vibrant, and they feel ideas returning to them, and they're inspired to write again. And I'm like, wow, that's crazy. That's incredible."

Vår fullständiga intervju med Jennifer Svedberg-Yen publicerades idag på Gamereactor, där vi även pratar om hennes och spelets resa, inspirationen till alla ledsamma öden i äventyret samt sådant som berör slutet. Missa inte det.