How do you follow-up your work on Disco Elysium, with out simply making one thing that is an excessive amount of like Disco Elysium to be as modern as Disco Elysium was? It is a hell of a riddle, and likewise a factor that Summer time Everlasting, the brand new studio that includes ex-ZA/UM devs that got here with its personal manifesto, is grappling with.
So, naturally, it was one of many issues I requested the studio’s Argo Tuulik, Dora Klindžić, and, Aleksandar Gavrilović about after I spoke to them about Summer time Everlasting for an interview which you’ll be able to learn the primary little bit of right here and will probably be getting a bit extra from on this very web site over the subsequent few days or so.
“Comparisons and expectations are inevitable,” Klindžić mentioned of the studio’s strategy to the sport it’s going to be making, “however the origin of our work will probably be our current situations, our current crew, our current actuality, not the previous which can by no means be recaptured once more, and is a idiot’s errand to chase.
“In the end, as we construct and design this sport from scratch, we are going to consider every aspect solely on the premise of whether or not it does justice to what we because the crew wish to make right this moment. After all, as the massive man’s quote goes, males don’t make their historical past as they please, so our current will all the time learn by our previous. However we wish to shed all pointless baggage and deal with constructing the long run.
“We’re approaching this course of with out intent to ‘outdo’ and even ‘match’ Elysium or to compete with another firm on Earth or in orbit, nor to put claims to any targets of economic success. We depart that enterprise to the profiteers. We’ll work as artists do, which implies each eyes on the work, not one on the viewers and never one on the competitors.”
Tuulik, in the meantime, mentioned: “I believe we’re simply gonna wing it. ‘No man steps into the identical river twice’, says obscure Heraclitus (obscurely). Moderately than attempting to be totally different for distinction’s sake or same-y as if there was a system for this, I’ll comply with the dopamine. I belief that what we make will really feel acquainted however new.”
Gavrilovic, on different hand, went very largest communism builder in his evaluation of the duty forward: “When Lenin wrote about how greatest to ascend a excessive mountain, he outlined an essential facet – when you find yourself already on a excessive vantage level, to ascend increased, you will need to typically take one other path, and descend. This descent is usually extra perilous and is all the time adopted by malicious glee of those that above all want so that you can not succeed. But when we’re to attain our formidable plan, we have to take our time and first descend the mountain, earlier than trying a good increased peak, nonetheless lengthy it takes.”
Summer time Everlasting is not the one new studio with ex ZA/UM devs taking up this sort of activity with a brand new sport – Longdue and Darkish Math Video games, introduced that very same week earlier this month, should work out how they wish to ascend Lenin’s mountain.