A Way Out creator Josef Fares spoke about his next crazy project
VG247 journalists at the GameLab conference in Barcelona talked with A Way Out creator Josef Fares, who outlined his next game in general terms - as always, in a rather eccentric manner and with plenty of checkmate.
“I like to make [players] not really know what’s going on, surprise them, like a rollercoaster,” Fares explained of his design ethos. “With Brothers and A Way Out, especially the ending, people go, ‘What the heck is going on?’ The next game will be like that. That’s why I call it mind-fucking.” – said Josef Fares.
However, it’s still not worth waiting for the continuation of A Way Out, since Fares is working on a completely new title.
“What I can say is it’s not A Way Out 2,” Fares explained about his next game, which definitely isn’t a sex game. “But if you look at Brothers, A Way Out, and the next game, you will see it’s the same studio that makes the game. But it will be something completely, totally different and it will be way more focused on trying to make the mechanics a part of the game, but it’s going to be something with a story that will remind of Brothers and A Way Out but in a very different way.” – said Josef Fares.
The new title, apparently, will also be focused on the cooperative passage.
“I believe there’s a lot of potential in telling great stories for more than one person. If you look at the movies today, when we look at them we look at them together, we experience stories together. I believe that multiplayer story games are underestimated – there’s a lot of potential there that I’d like to explore. But who knows, in the future I’d like to try different stuff – it depends what idea pops into my head.” – said Josef Fares.
According to the head of the studio Hazelight, A Way Out was so successful that the developers could easily continue the process, but Josef himself was not particularly interested in this. He believes that the next game will be really insane.
“We could have done A Way Out 2 because A Way Out has been so successful, but I’m not interested in that, so the next game will be something totally different. There’s something about connecting two players that really gets me going. The next game is going to an insane game mechanically. It’s going to be, oh my god, there’s so much mechanics – it’s impossible to get tired of it. You will be like ‘What the fuck? What, what, what?’ It’s going to be like that. You’re going to get fucked every 30 minutes. It’s not a sex game but you’re going to get fucked, trust me.” – said Josef Fares.
No word yet on when Hazelight’s next game will arrive, although keep an eye out next year.
