“I'm glad we focused on the management aspect of the game, but one day I'll make a turn based combat system! That's my goal”, he smiles. And in the end, very few players seemed to be annoyed by the lack of combat. And for a long time they thought they could develop a true turn based combat system, had even prototyped couple of versions but very soon they realised it was impossible within their budget. Matthieu says his design concept evolved a lot, being first more rogue-like, procedural generation. conveys some emotions to some players, that's really great.” I'm pretty happy to see that the characters, the endings, etc. “We love watching reactions from youtubers while playing the game, they really did add to the narrative by injecting their own thoughts about what was happening. CCCP wanted to have something light-hearted, where players would tell their own story playing the game, and they succeeded in that. The narrative was influenced by Dune 1, mostly for very personal elements between characters mixed together with a strategy game. They were also inspired by different games they had played: the Ludum Dare version of Gods Will Be Watching, Zombie survival games, especially State Of Decay. “We wanted a strange atmosphere, and I loved the music our composer did, really twinpeaks-iesque”. We asked Matthieu where he got his creativity from and he told us that one of his main artistic inspiration sources were the works of David Lynch, especially Twin Peaks. He likes strategy games too, so we talked a lot about the game design choices during the development, it was good to challenge my ideas”. “Our coder had good experience with Unity, so it was very helpful. With a fierce rivalry in a game market they had to make a competitor research on new games with a survival theme during development, but neither This War Of Mine nor other games were close enough to theirs, so they decided to deliver on their unique vision for the game no matter what. It gave a bit of fresh air, it worked very well”, he continues. “Our artist is more an indie spirit, so we thought it was cool to make an hardcore management game - games that often are ugly, not polished - with an artist who doesn't play this kind of game. I guess my technical background led my choices somewhat”, says Matthieu. Mostly as a programmer, but it's my first project where I'm the game designer, with total freedom. “I opened my company 10 years ago, doing some educational games, flash games, etc.

Cccp project dead