And yet, every single one of them has a unique quirk, which made them a real pleasure to animate and design around. Throughout development, the creative pipeline has been super smooth-we've never spent weeks designing a single character. We've got a lot of creative freedom, and to be honest, most characters and Sorrows were created very intuitively.
The cartoonish art direction gives us a lot of leeway, including for genre or stylistic breaks.
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Léger: We wanted it to be slightly disturbing without going full creepy. How has Have a Nice Death's art style informed the direction and characterization of the Thanagers and Sorrows? For instance, one specific curse that's been in the game since the beginning of early access got updated several times to avoid breaking most spell-based builds. We adjusted a lot of curses and weapons based on player feedback. How have the players had a hand in shaping the game during this early access period?ĭutertre: We wanted to do a lot of things, and community feedback made us focus on some features instead of others, such as adding an easy/beginner difficulty option, called "Self-Fulfillment" in the game, or adding new content to make the game harder-such as Challenge Rooms, five new difficulty options with modifiers for each difficulty level, and more. In the game's fourth world, Death faces the personification of addictions. We made a conscious effort to keep up with the community channels and include as much of their feedback and ideas as possible, even if they ended up as small details somewhere. We kept seeing fan theories about the main storyline or employee relationships cropping up within the community-some went as far as creating new Sorrows or even whole departments. However, the early access period allowed us to flesh out the characters of the Sorrows and other NPCs. We wanted to explore themes such as Death surviving a burnout and his yearning for holidays, why the Sorrows are wreaking havoc, and whether someone's really behind it all. However, we hope that all those spare content ideas can be leveraged later down the road.Īlfroy: narrative design, we had a clear vision for the main storyline since the earliest days of production. That said, in order to focus on improvements from community feedback, we reduced our content scope a little from what we had originally planned. Despite the limited size of our team, we were able to develop plenty of content during the early access period. We do have lots of exciting, new content for the 1.0 release, and similar to our previous updates, players will find the 1.0 content is more focused on quality than quantity.
Léger: It was both exhilarating and intense to be adding one new world per update-which would include one boss, one or two mini-bosses, new types of enemies, new weapons, and much more. We put more emphasis on the gameplay experience of players who were new to our game, or even to roguelikes. The biggest impact the early access period had was the feedback we had from players to make all of Have a Nice Death’s mechanics clearer and easier to grasp. That was a tremendous help to avoid feature creep and focus on the core gameplay. From the get-go, we had a laundry list of features to add, such as new bosses or updates to existing systems like meta-progression. How has this early access period shaped and influenced the direction of the game's development-both in terms of gameplay and narrative-if at all?ĭutertre: We embarked on an early access being fully aware of our roadmap and what we wanted to put in the game. Now Playing: Have A Nice Death - Department Tour Trailer By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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