Flavourworks

Where did Fragglerock mention that to you?

Ehm... nevermind, found it.

I'm also curious as to what it's all about. I haven't been following the project very closely so I'm sure I've missed something, but so far the only description I've seen of what the game will be like has emerged from the interview linked in Jack's Tweet. And it doesn't exactly give much away.

"Old-school gameplay" makes me think it could be roguelike, or maybe a 2D platformer. In my head it's gonna be like Crypt of the Necrodancer or something.

Whatever it is, I'm willing to give it a fair shake, but only because of the involvement of Pavle on the project. 22Cans was Pavle's first programming job, but unlike Jack "Mic-stand" Attridge it was a role that actually involved creating something. I imagine he's going to be doing most of the work on this project while Jack focuses on the pretentious PR campaign.

Oh I just happened to check these boards out of curiosity and found this. I would say design may not be as tangible as code but it still involves a lot of work. However one big reason for us starting Flavourworks was so that I could control the creative direction. If it screws up then at least it did within my control. Turns out there is an awful lot of work that goes into starting a company. We actually had a full working prototype a year ago, but since then we've put a lot of energy into technology and pre production stuff. I think it's likely not like anything you're thinking of, but I am hopeful that you'll like it. I'd be tempted to show some of you over a brew sometime but for now I need to keep it top secret. Believe me though it's super frustrating not being able to just show you the damn thing.

Hard to say. We could honestly show it now. I could have shown it a year ago. Even if the extra work we put in shows a minimal difference I'd rather reveal it with it being as close to the final content, polish, narrative, features as possible. A lot of heartbreak came out of godus being so publicly iterative that I want people to just be surprised and delighted and above all else really really enjoy it.

Yeah make it shine Jack and then show us.

Or how you are financing yourself and Pavel while there are no sales yet?

A few Q's there!

Crumpy - no worries! I guess I can say it's very narrative focused. It will be a short but focused experience. It will be a one-off purchase, no plans for IAP. A motivation for making it is to allow as many people as possible to enjoy an interactive narrative experience because I don't like the image problem that games have. However it is no way a dumbed down game experience, and would fit right at home on Steam. We're just aiming for accessibility. In terms of platforms, we started on iOS to get some nice silky touch controls, but we are bringing to other platforms as well, currently doing a console build.

Mr Ba'al - We did manage to get a pretty amazing demo together just on our own funds, and we've proceeded to burn through all our monies but because we're idiots we've gone for a ridiculously ambitious and expensive idea. This has meant bringing on investors but they are very supportive and we have creative freedom. Has been a big learning lesson.

hardly - thanks! Yeah I always felt like "i wouldn't want to play the last of us on early access", and it sort of spoils the magic of a product landing at your feet and feeling so polished it was as life it grew on a tree. I want to be synonymous with quality.

I absolutely agree with this, and I think it's one of the many problems with Early Access which hurts the developer as well as the consumer. There isn't a single game in my library that I would want to play in an unfinished state. Even if it's a reasonably feature-complete and stable build, it's not the experience it's supposed to be. You can quickly burn out on the game in its unfinished state before enjoying the full, awesome product when it's actually released.

Investors like Peter Molyneux? I think it's great that he's continuing to support you following your departure from 22Cans. You say you have complete creative freedom (and I don't doubt it) but has he tried to get involved and influence the product?