“I think humour’s just our safety blanket.”
There’s a childlike wonder toTwo Point Campus.
and let’s you play those out in silly fashion.
“And in this game we said why not?
Why can’t you be fighting dragons?
And why can’t you be flying rocket ships or building robots?”
And after healthcare, education was an obvious next step for the simulation series.
“We’ve all had some sort of experience in education,” says Carr.
“Bullfrog was definitely a company that tried to use humour to draw you into quite a complex game.
And that was a good old Peter Molyneux trick to disarm you as a player,” he says.
“You don’t feel intimidated if people are cracking jokes in a game.
The 80s-inspired music adds to that nostalgic atmosphere too.
Yet it was important, overall, to remain timeless.
“Two Point as a place is timeless,” says Carr.
“We make it look kind of clunky.
It’s very analogue looking.”
One of the biggest additions to Two Point Campus, compared with Hospital, is the inclusion of relationships.
In that time they’ll spend as much time socialising as they will learning and studying.
“We looked at Hospital and thought ‘what would people want us to change and iterate on for Campus?
‘,” says Jo Koehler, senior producer .
If they die they die.
And they’re going to want things: relationships, entertainment, that part of college life.”
As students are in Campus for longer, you witness these relationships slowly building over time.
“It’s quite nice to police and nurture it,” says Carr.
Those relationships include friendships, arguments, silly fighting, and even love.
“We don’t want to be gratuitous,” says Carr.
They are inclusive though.
“Everybody can have a relationship with anybody,” says Carr.
“People in Two Point are quite androgynous anyway.
A big part of that, too, is onboarding, especially with so many complex systems to manage.
“And we use our community to help us make a better game all the time.
That also means parity of features across all platforms from launch - the main reason forthe recent delay.
Two Point Campus is releasing on 8th August across all platforms.
Check out ourpreview of the gamefor more details.
