Bolting on multiplayer mechanics to an existing single player game is an insane amount of design work. Resource management and exploration are common themes in strategy games. They come in both turn-based and real-time versions, the former allowing each player a chance to complete their turn, the latter having a continuous running clock without stopping. A game designed to be multiplayer has those mechanics built in and designed that way from the beginning. They can be either single player against bots or multiplayer against other players. Not sure why i have to explain all of this lolĮxactly. this non graphic intense game can handle multiplayer. And insane mechanics to make multiplayer? what year are you living in, ever played Empyrion? 7 Days? Warzone? Age of Empires? Satisfactory? so many things going on in those games and all are multiplayer. amazing response, i know! But to the mast majority of the world people will get bored with playing by themselves and having no one to explore the world and their base with. This is what I want.Originally posted by Ruthless:People want multiplayer games because they want to build a base together. I didn’t realize how much I missed it until we did it again and I understood that this is it. It’s great having other people to bounce ideas off of. “Something that I’ve learned about myself is that I work best as part of a team. He says it’s “wonderful” to be part of a team again, after spending almost three years working alone. It’s just kind of obvious when you play it.”īut the theme is also relevant to Wander’s particular experience of making games. We don’t have to hit people over the head with it. That’s a pretty important theme that comes through purely in the mechanic. “You’re getting new people to migrate to your city and understanding that these migrants bring new ways to do things,” Wander says.
The game’s mechanic of interacting with other people is an underlying message that’s relevant to the wider world. You’re exploring the landscape with these punctuated points of interest, all over the map.” “These are really good examples of nodal storytelling that we want to do, not in terms of the amount of story, but just the idea that there are these points that you can go to at any point. He says his inspiration for Airborne Kingdom includes the Anno series, Frostpunk, Sunless Skies, FTL, and 80 Days. The player leads a flying city that explores a great desert He adds that there’s no hierarchy at The Wandering Band. These are some of the best people that I know that make video games.” “If you’d told me five years ago that I’d be working with this group of people again, I would have probably signed that contract in blood with the devil, in order to make this happen. “It got to a point where we thought we were onto something and so it became more serious. “We started spitballing about games that we liked and games that we wanted to make,” says Wander. He was still in contact with his old pals.
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Since the closure of Visceral, the team members have variously worked at Crystal Dynamics, Motive Studios, and on projects outside gaming.Īfter the release of A Case of Distrust on Nintendo Switch and Windows PC, Wander knew he needed help on his next idea. Production and marketing is headed by Zach Mumbach. The game’s first images, released today, show a distinctive look, created by art director Chee Fong, who cites inspirations such as British artist Augustus Lamplough’s landscapes and Daniel Agdag’s magical realism. By interacting with these societies and attracting new citizens, the city grows and improves. It floats above a desert country, making contact with civilizations on the ground. Collectively, they call themselves The Wandering Band.Īirborne Kingdom is a city management game with a twist: The city is mobile. But now they’re reuniting to make Airborne Kingdom. After Wander’s departure, and the later shutdown of Visceral, the rest of the team went their own ways. Prior to making A Case of Distrust, he worked at Visceral Games, part of a unit of four people who designed multiplayer modes for shooter Battlefield Hardline. This time, Wander is working with a reunited team of old friends. Today, Wander announced a new game called Airborne Kingdom, which involves a flying city and a search for desert migrants. It merged whodunit threads with a lovely aesthetic and smart dialog.
A Case of Distrust by solo developer Ben Wander (aka The Wandering Ben) was one of Polygon’s best 50 games from last year.
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