Throughout my chat with Modern Storyteller’s managing director Nick Pearce about his upcoming game The Forgotten City, there are two things conspicuously absent from our conversation: “Bethesda”, and “Skyrim“. Ever since Pearce announced he was re-imagining his popular time-looping murder mystery mod into a proper game last year, Bethesda has become the publisher that shall not be named. Not in a properly evil, Voldemort kind of way, thankfully, but having to cut ties with the game that helped Pearce make his name (not to mention win him an Australian Writers Guild Award) has still made its journey to release a bit of a tricky one.
The Forgotten City dev on how he's turning Skyrim's best mod into a standalone Roman murder mystery
