Vi fick nyligen chansen att snacka med Harebrained Schemes ena grundare, Mitch Gitelman, om BattleTech, Necropolis och utvecklaren i allmänhet. Just nu gör Shadowrun: Hong Kong-teamet en minikampanj som utlovades i Kickstarter-kampanjen, men när det är klart kommer de hoppa på gruppen som gör BattleTech. Därefter dröjer det ett tag innan vi återser Shadowrun.
Gitelman förklarar varför och sägeratt de nu ska "going to step back from Shadowrun for a while, let people rest. We put out three games in three years. A couple of things about Shadowrun. First of all we love Shadowrun. Shadowrun is now part of the DNA of our studio now and so for example, on the anniversary of the Shadowrun Returns kickstarter, we celebrate. We get a cake."
Det betyder dock inte att de nödvändigtvis är trötta på serien. Tvärtom har de redan skissat på hur en ny del kan se ut:
"When we return to Shadowrun we intend to return to a different place in the world, to see how you know, 50 years and the return of magic affects different cultures around the world. We think that's fun. Shadowrun Hong Kong, the story couldn't have happened anywhere else other than Hong Kong, just like Berlin in Dragonfall. It couldn't have happened anywhere else other than the city of Berlin. So that's what we are attempting to do as we go all around the world but, I think the game will need to take a different form in the future. Probably fully 3D. We'll see what happens. We have to keep up with the times."
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