Facebook TwitterDave Mervik, the Narrative Designer for Tarsier Studios, took the time to talk to me about Roald Dahl novels, the hidden blessings in cancelled games, and Tarsier’s new “suspense-adventure” game, Hunger.B – First off, if you could tell us your name and what your role on the game Hunger is.D – My name’s Dave Mervik and I’m the […]
You change. 11 July 2021
Downtown Los Angeles, 2005. A hot, bloated, extravagant E3, and everyone more excited than normal because it s new-console year. PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Revolution (Wii) are all at the show, and anything labelled next-gen is stampeded. Perhaps that s how a group of Swedish students, with no publisher and no track record, manage to entice people to see their game.
But, there is something exciting about what they re doing. Their game is different, darker, and more off-beat than mainstream games usually are. It s set in a dark city of warped rooftops and gnarled horizons, a place run by a malicious Corporation and its mysterious world-building machine, powered, it seems, by the souls of children. Children sent back out to work in the city as mindless zombies dubbed metrognomes.
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