This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the difficult journeys they ve taken to make their games. This time, Return of the Obra Dinn [official site].
Towards the end of Return of the Obra Dinn s four-and-a-half years in development, Lucas Pope had a friend come over to playtest it. He sat him down, explained how it s a firstperson mystery game in which you discover the fate of the Obra Dinn, a merchant ship lost on its voyage into the Orient. Then he gave him the controls. He played for a bit and his response was, This game is about the book . (more…)