And explains why he is no longer making The Swindle 2.
“I just felt like I needed to make something… “And my heart sank.”
Though again, it wouldn’t quite work out.
“I started making this game where you play as an adorable little T-rex.
And I put some gifs up on Twitter and I was like, ‘Shall I make this?’
And it went m- like, 600 retweets or something like that.
So at that point I was like, ‘I should probably make this,'” he said.
“But again, same problems, same thing - it was the same game.
It wasn’t fun - I couldn’t find the fun in it.
I had this little test area set up and it was all…
It was nice but I couldn’t really see it turning into a game.
“Sometimes you make stuff…
It’s not the thing.'”
Really, though, it’s a game about pressing buttons and watching what happens.
And, perhaps for the first time for Marshall, it will be 3D.
He can’t take it any more.
The toll it takes on you in this day and age is too hard.
It’ll start smaller and then evolve if the audience is there to warrant it.
Think of aNo Man’s Skyor a Project Zomboid - a living project like that.
I can make it so you might fly the fighter planes.
I can add to it and keep adding different aspects to it.
But it never needs to come out.
And that way I can hide from the horror of launch day ever happening to me again.”
There’s no name or release date for the spacefaring game at the moment.
And to that end, yes, Ben Ward is absolutely coming on board to help write it.
“I’ll be like the George R.R.
Martin that comes in to help with lore,” Ward said.
They’re a really entertaining pair to listen to and they made me laugh a lot.
Their enduring friendship - they met at secondary school!
- is also exceedingly heartwarming to be around.
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