Night School Studio är kända för underhållande äventyrsspelen Oxenfree och After Party, och filar just nu på sitt nästkommande projekt. När vi nyligen snackade med studiogrundaren Sean Krankel från utvecklaren under virtuella Fun & Serious Game Festival 2020 sade han såhär om det:
"No game announcements or even time line announcements yet, but I will say that the stuff that we're doing is a return to scary settings. It's definitely something that we want to feel more serious and have more layers of mystery to unravel beneath it as well.
I think something that we kind of took a detour from post-Oxenfree was a world that felt like the stakes were extra high and that to explore the world it's important to feel like a smart almost detective, which is what happens in Oxenfree, like yes, you're a teenager thrown into this mix but there's so many strange layers in that game, and where Afterparty and Next Stop Nowhere both have some of those layers, I think to players on the surface they might not think that, they might just think 'oh this is goofy comedy', or 'oh this is just some road trip'. But we're going to make a much more concerted effort in our next project to return to kind of scary stuff and have some real mysteries - we want the player to feel really smart and a little bit underpowered and endangered basically. That's kind of all I can say, but yeah it'll be scary shit again."
Krankel berättade även om hur corona-pandemin påverkat dem, och sade lite överraskande att det inte bara varit negativt för kreativiteten.
