Creators of Heavenly Sword have spoken about their next title that promises to break cut scene conventions and promises much bigger appreciation of gameplay and story.
Chief designer and co-founder of Ninja Theory Tameen Antoniadas spoke at the Develop conference this week and said:
“The way we’re doing it now with our next project, we’re starting much earlier with the writing. We’ve got a writer on board and we’re spending a lot of time on the shop floor, in the studio with the designers, including the level designers, working out the narrative flow, the locations.”
“I think it’s absolutely essential. Last time round we didn’t really involve our designers in the process so the story became a nuisance to what they were trying to do which was create gameplay. Now we’ve involved them all together there’s a much bigger appreciation of the gameplay and story.”
“Because it’s such a visual medium it’s the same format as film. I think it makes sense to use some of the same conventions. But we are at a point where can start to break some of those conventions. I feel like progress is a little bit slow. It’s something we want to do in our next project, push a little bit further. I don’t think cut scenes are going to go away.”
Sounds like the next title will have more gameplay and less talk which is a good thing of course. The next title will be multiplatform.
