{"id":36305,"date":"2020-07-02T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2631609"},"modified":"2020-07-02T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:19:00","slug":"life-is-strange-creators-aim-for-something-more-grounded-with-psychological-thriller-twin-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/02\/life-is-strange-creators-aim-for-something-more-grounded-with-psychological-thriller-twin-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is Strange creators aim for something more grounded with psychological thriller Twin Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"

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French game studio Dontnod loves the supernatural. The team’s breakout hit was the original Life is Strange<\/em>, which starred a teenage girl who had the ability to rewind time. The sequel featured a young boy with telekinetic powers, and in 2018, the studio dabbled in roleplaying games with Vampyr<\/em>, which put players in the role of a bloodthirsty denizen of the night. But around 2016, the team decided they wanted to create something a little more grounded.<\/p>\n

They eventually landed on the idea for Twin Mirror<\/em>, an adventure game about a former investigative journalist named Sam who ventures back to his hometown following the death of his best friend. Naturally, he gets wrapped up in a much bigger mystery involving the entire town. Sam does have some video game-esque abilities — including a “mind palace” for piecing together clues and solving mysteries — but there are no superpowers or mythological creatures.<\/p>\n

“You want people to be able to understand the mystery,” game director Florian Desforges says of the decision to eschew the supernatural. “Yes, there are some supernatural elements in how we display Sam’s unique mind, but the story itself, the logic of what’s happening, the motivation of the characters, all of this is rooted in reality.”<\/p>\n

While the team knew from the beginning that they wanted a grounded story, it took time to figure out what<\/em> that story would be. The issue, according to Desforges, was that just because a story is interesting, that doesn’t mean it offers interesting ways to interact with it. What made Sam and his quest to uncover the secrets of his hometown compelling, says Desforges, is that it struck a balance between those two factors. The team loved the character and mystery, but they were also excited about creating ways for players to inhabit Sam’s investigative mind. “We were quite convinced we found the right mix between these two aspects,” Desforges says.<\/p>\n

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