Interview
Necrobarista Dev Is Aiming to Become ‘the Studio Ghibli of Visual Novels’
Kevin Chen wants more out of visual novels. The 2000s have been a period of growth and increasing complexity for video games, anime, ...
Interview
Unto the End Sends a Father on a Bloody Odyssey Infused with a Skill-Based Combat System
Sara Kitamura said there are three main inspirations for sidescrolling combat adventure Unto the End: Dark Souls, Punch-Out!!, and the entire country of ...
Features
Monstrum II Devs Say the Sea Is the Perfect Place for a Horror Game
The team at Junkfish loves watching streamers and Let’s Play-ers hide while playing their procedurally generated survival horror game Monstrum, holding their breath ...
Column
The Legend of Bum-bo Treats Cardboard as Serious Art & Sent Its Creator to Therapy
The Binding of Isaac, depending on whom you ask, is about parental abuse, religious fundamentalism, and childhood trauma, or about a naked baby ...
Column
Teardown Tasks Players with Planning the Perfect Destruction-Filled Heist
Video games are difficult to make. The barriers to entry are lower than they’ve ever been thanks to powerful, accessible tools like Unity. ...
Interview
Wingstop Spices Up Esports Streaming
Buffalo wings are one of the dominant foods associated with big sporting events and Wingstop (NASDAQ: WING) is trying to extend that cultural cachet into esports by ...
Column
Industrialism Run Amok Is the Villain in ‘Permalife’ RPG Sparklite
Lucas Rowe, his brother Edward, and their partner Kevin Mabie have spent the last four years developing Sparklite, an action RPG with roguelike ...
Column
MediEvil Remake Devs on Being Faithful ‘Without Feeling Like a Bad Cover Band’
The Dialogue Tree is a new column at The Escapist by Patrick Lee in which he talks to game developers large and small ...
Interview
Shinsuke Umeda on Death March Club and the Rise of Japanese Indies
In 2017, Kazutaka Kodaka, writer of the acid trip bloodbath Danganronpa games, and Kotaro Uchikoshi, the writer-director of the puzzlebox horror series Zero ...
Interview
Modern Warfare’s Story Is About the ‘Bonds Between People,’ Says Narrative Director
As sure as the sun is to rise tomorrow, so too does a new Call of Duty release every fall. But per its ...
Features
Warren Spector and Paul Neurath Discuss Modernizing System Shock While Honoring the IP
At the end of the ’90s, Y2K panic gripped the world. Fearmongers and tech-illiterates convinced people that computer networks were going to freak ...
Features
The Falconeer Dev Is Promising Dangerous World War I-Style Dogfighting, but with Giant Birds
Air combat military games have often been constrained by reality. Piloting fighter jets through dogfights is exhilarating, but it is bound to look ...
