There has been no better time to test the survival instincts from games more than now. Do you think you can climb a mountain with a collection of wonderful scouts? there summit. Or say that you want to build a single imperial wooden record every time? Good, Him The game may be for you.
However, with a lot of competition, you can feel hard to stand out. Enter Cronus: The new dawnTime horror game from Bloober, which derives from the history of the real world to frame its world. In Gamescom this year, we sat with the main writer of the project, Grzegorz, to discuss inspiration behind the latest studio battle in horror, including Poland’s complex past, Nion Book for Genesis IvangelionAnd 1982 Thing.
“At some stage of the Bloober team, we realized that we are really good at placing Poland in games,” explains like. “We did it in observerWe did so in MediumBut we never did so on a large scale. “
in ChronusPlayers enter the metal stents of a mysterious “traveler” whose mission is to stay in an abandoned version of Poland in the wake of an event called change. While the player searches and harvested the souls of the survivors, they must also move between RIFTs in time, manage rare resources and calm the moving numbers. The world is strange and uncomfortable, with every land board or whistle of the wind to remind you of your isolation.
Chronus He was not appointed in a fictional area, and the game is based on the Noor Huta area in the real world, which is located outside the center of Krakow (the studio base). He says, “The entire region is a communist region that was built immediately after the war, when Poland was under the influence of the Soviet Union – the dark times.”
“But because of the dark, we really thought it was going well to link this to the topics that we wanted to address throughout the game,” like continuing. “Chronus It is a bit about team and humanitarian work – but the question is, what if people meet and something bad happens? “
The “bad” concerned is the “change” mentioned above, and it is a virus that allows “humans” to integrate into violent monsters. “(in ChronusBeing together is not a really good thing, “like notes.” In real life in Poland, we stood against the Soviet Union, and we mainly destroyed the government in solidarity. We asked ourselves, what if there was no military law to be brought due to illness? “Like referring to the Evangelion Book Anime Oncestics series, with a referral to a psychological metaphor, inhale to” the dilemma of the hedgehog “,” mainly, (people) hurt each other when they approach. “
Human
Despite its heavy tones, as he made it clear that the team was not trying to make any comprehensive political data and simply deduced from its own experience, as it grew up in the region. “We knew that [what we had] It was good, but we needed to be nice and conscious while telling the story, “he explained,” It is good when you tell a story like this to be a background, and the Communist background was really rich. “He said.
To give Chronus Personal feeling, the team did not rely on new images to create a brutal setting. Instead of creating pictures of the site, instead, they instead arrived at family members in search of the memories of the region from their childhood. “Since we wanted to reproduce the vitality of the city, we decided not to create pictures or take photographs.” Like he says. “I offered the advertising clip of my mother, because she still lives there in Noor Huta, and it was like, what did she do? Destruction of the entire city?” He joked.
It is easy to understand its reaction, especially in view of the extent of abandoning it Chronus He feels movement. The walls are graffiti, and furniture turned, and it appears that all signs of normal life have been recruited. Like the art team is often visited to try to adjust how the models collect. “It was really pain for all 3D artists,” he said jokingly. “[They’d say] It’s a game. It is not a museum, “It was for me.”
Early of our experimental offer, we faced an advertising panel that overflows with missing people from the bulletins, which is a quick reminder that the pale bodies that we were facing as soon as they belong to ordinary people in the city. The construction of the solid world, as he explained, ended with some family members who helped the team in the pictures, as well as the faces of the missing people. “[The family members] Everyone is needed to sign the papers and all, and they are now in the game, “as he explains.
Work in shadows
However, despite these personal touches, like not naive for the fact that Chronus It is compared to other horror games like Dead and Vampire. Cronus Like our love speech to all these games, he says. “(But) while creating the new IP, we decided to deal with ourselves and create a (game) that would scratch all of our itching.”
Hot after the success of the studio with Silent Hill 2 new editionBlober was keen to pay in a different direction with Chronus. “We knew that we needed to do something other than James Sunderland again,” he says. “This was very psychological … we also wanted Chronus To be deep, but in a different direction, we thought about different types of sub -horror, and we decided not only some science fiction, but also the horror of the body. “
During the search phase, like how the team found an inspiration in the 1982 movie John Carpet’s 1982. Thing. “The monsters were taken from that,” he explained. “But we needed to make it work as a opponent in a game, so we also decided to create this integration system to make it unique to the players.”
The players also explore ChronusThey will find the remains of society, which the game refers to as orphans, was colored into strange forms. If you fail to remove every tactical enemy, they can combine forces, swelling in a more threatening enemy – a unique system that requires you to act with intent.
“It is always good to have a discount that does something funny on their own, and you do not have to know the entire text of the battle – (things) only happens,” like notes. “Very early in the game, you can end up with a president’s fight, and it is not a text; it exists because you haven’t played well.”
Cronus: The new dawn He praises a wide range of horror games that came before, which raises this tried and truly methodology with an interesting enemy system and carried a boat of personal science. Although we will not know how to give up this until it is launched next week, like we left with some wisdom on how to survive. “Be prepared and ask your rifles to re -download it, and manage your stock properly, and you will be fine – every battle is a mystery – and of course read all the notes.”