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Dall'intervista di ieri con RPS:

• RPS: Let’s talk a bit about what we saw in the trailer? It seems like that could have been the start of the game?
  
  Foster: Well no, because the game is open-world in a sense. It’s not a world, it’s a moonbase, but it is non-linear. You can go where you want. At the start of the trailer you can see he’s on a sort of tram, and this is how you can get around between the sections such as the hydroponics, the R&D area, or the dig site. The area he gets off the tram is the Public Sector, and we concentrated on that because it’s a bit more polished than the other areas. It’s not the start of the game, at least in that you can choose to go to that area at the start, but you can choose to go other places too.
  
• RPS: What’s the player doing there? What are they aiming to achieve?
  
  Foster: Well, the way we are trying to spin this is: you are trying to achieve what you think you need to achieve. It’s down to the player. The game has multiple endings, based on how the game perceives you act, and therefore what your goal has been. There’s an obvious goal, of course, and that’s that there’s obviously something wrong. When you there’s something wrong like that you want to find out what’s behind it and how to solve the issue. So there’s that. But… we have one section of the game, which is shown at the end of the trailer, the sewers, and that’s interesting because there’s almost no story progression down there. There’s no links to go down there, there are warnings to say to the player not to go down there, there are visual warnings. But it leads to that ‘curiosity killed the cat’ thing. We want to play with that, to see what drives players, to see what curiosity does to people. There are multiple endings, of course, and what they are depends on you. But there is a story being told, and it’s dependent on the player as to what you find out.
  
• RPS: So open-ended as well as open-world?
  
  Foster: Absolutely. It’s a really tricky game-design thing. Most horror games script elaborate jump scares, but we can’t do that, because people can go anywhere. So our programmer has been working on an AI director that will try and read what the player is doing, and try to react to that in certain ways. There are a lot of things in the base which can grab the attention of the enemies. When you saw the player using the computer in the trailer, well, one of the things that can happen is that if you download files for too long, then the computer’s alarm will go off, and that grabs the attention of nearby robots. Things like this will direct the AI, but they’re not scripted as such. They walk around, follow their work paths, do things. We don’t know where they are! But we will have systems to build attention in a non-linear passage.
  
• RPS: How vulnerable is the player?
  
  Foster: There’s a lot of testing going on with that. We don’t want the player to ever be confused about why they died. We have permadeath, so we don’t want any kind of confused reaction to that. When the player dies they should know exactly why they died. We’re playing with a wound system right now, which will have a strong visual representation. It’ll let you know that you are not in a good way, and that the next time you get into a situation you aren’t going to be able to escape. That sort of thing. With regards to the shooting, there are only ever two batteries in your tool at any one time, so when you shoot both of them they tool won’t work anymore. The flashlight won’t work, connection to projectors won’t work, you need to find more.
  
• RPS: How long to get through it?
  
  Foster: I can’t say. I hope everyone gets a really nice three hour experience. It could be a lot longer than that if you want to explore properly.

Evidenziato le parti più importanti. Ora si che sono interessato al gioco.
Non mi preoccupa la durata breve, stiamo parlando di un openworld a finali multipli con permadeath dopotutto.