Outer wilds designers
These were major hidden locations in the game that players could only reach when they had acquired the knowledge to access them. The team structured Outer Wilds around what it called 'Curiosities'. Unlike other exploration games, where you gain abilities that let you access new areas, the team wanted the player to only "collect knowledge about the world they're exploring". He and a team of other students pooled prototypes they had been developing and "gradually duct-taped" them together to make a game about exploration. "Very specifically, a world that's governed by natural forces that you can't really do anything about, but as you learn about them you can understand it enough to not immediately die."īeachum began work on Outer Wilds at the University Of Southern California as part of the Interactive Media programme. "The goal from the outset was to make a game that felt like we're going off and exploring the unknown," Outer Wilds' creative director Alex Beachum says. At each stage it has been remade, but the developer has stuck strictly to its initial concept. Over the years it has won awards and launched crowdfunding platforms, before picking up a publisher. This arresting game has been nearly a decade in the making, beginning life as a Masters thesis back in 2012. Whether you're in space to meet the destructive wave or stayed on the planet where you woke, toasting a marshmallow on the firepit, the blast kills you and begins the loop anew.
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Perhaps the greatest wonder, though, is that you have only 22 minutes to explore it all before the yellow sun at the centre of the solar system shivers and shrinks, turning blue and exploding outwards in an all-consuming supernova. (opens in new tab)Ī third, Dark Bramble, is a nest of thorny vines wrapped in fog, and hiding within its cloud are whale-sized anglerfish that will eat your ship whole.
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