Konfa Games: "Nästa Despot-spel är snart klart - demo kommer inom kort"

Konfa Games dök upp på årets BCN Game Fest med gott självförtroende och ännu fler galna idéer i bagaget. Under vårt snack med utvecklaren Nikolai Kuznetsov fick vi en rejäl genomgång av hur deras nästa projekt knyter an till den märkligt mörka och hysteriskt skruvade Despot-världen. Enligt Kuznetsov fortsätter spelet där Despotism 3K slutade: mänskligheten är i princip mosad, jorden är söndersmulad av ett smart utomjordiskt kollektiv som hatar ond AI, och Despot själv har räddat en bunt människor, slängt ihop ett rymdskepp i paniktempo och dragit ut i galaktiskt krig

"Yeah, our first game, Despotism 3K, it was started when Despot, how to say, they started to control humanity. And now it is much later when Despot already, how to say, control all the Earth, but Earth was destroyed by aliens. He took some humans, made very fast spaceship and he moved to fight with this union of aliens who are smart and why they destroyed Earth? Because they are afraid of evil AI. There is a reason for it."

Enligt teamet har man sneglat en hel del på både Balatro och FTL när det kommer till spelets progression. Kuznetsov berättade att:

"It's only unlocking. It's unlocking new spaceship, new artifacts, new models for spaceship, but it's not about meta progression. I mean, you cannot be, how to say, you can't increase your health or increase your damage between runs, only different modes, different spaceships, yeah, like that. We like more meta progression like in FTL or Balatro when you have very many content and you instantly can replay and beat the game again with different, how to say, different things."

Slutligen frågade vi om spelets tidsplan och vad man kan förvänta sig i form av tillkännagivanden och lanseringsfönster. Kuznetsov gav oss en insikt.

"We are moving to open demo, we will announce game soon and right now it is closer to vertical slice because we have a tutorial and we have all our content from the start, you just press play and you have very many many things what is hard to understand and our next step it will make a smooth start for the players and after we'll finish with it, we'll make announce and public demo."

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