To say Sandfall Interactive has gained just a few followers after releasing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 can be a wild understatement. The truth is, the RPG wasn’t simply GameSpot’s Game of the 12 months, but additionally made historical past at The Game Awards. This all means expectations can be sky excessive for the developer’s subsequent venture. Nevertheless, Sandfall needs to keep away from interesting to the lots and proceed specializing in “what we predict is cool.”
Talking with Edge magazine, Sandfall lead author Jennifer Svedberg-Yen famous that “it is all the time at the back of my thoughts that we’ve quite a lot of followers now, and so they have sure expectations and sure emotions towards the sport.” The objective for the group is to keep away from that noise.
“Creatively, we have all the time let our North Star be our personal private style when it comes to what we predict is cool–what it’s we take pleasure in and need to see. I’ve seen too many TV reveals and books be swayed making an attempt to please lots of people, and within the course of you find yourself shedding the center of what is there,” Svedberg-Yen mentioned. “So [we] really feel like we have to belief our instincts and proceed to belief the imaginative and prescient behind the studio.”
Sandfall COO and producer François Meurisse added that he is aware of “there’s a little bit of stress” with the group’s subsequent sport. Meurisse said once more that the developer has “some nice concepts,” which is some extent he is strengthened since final Might. It is unknown whether or not the studio will make a sequel to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 or one thing solely new.
Final month, Sandfall CEO and artistic director Guillaume Broche mentioned that the studio did not plan on scaling up for the subsequent sport, regardless that it may. The essential and industrial success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has given the developer a ton extra monetary assets to work with going ahead. However Broche does not need to throw this cash at simply making the group greater.
For extra, try GameSpot’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 overview. The RPG acquired a significant new replace proper after The Game Awards, that includes a brand new space to discover and quality-of-life enhancements.