How the ‘Game of the Year’ was made

In 2020, the Guillaume Broche was the same as the world’s hundreds of millions of people around the world.

“I want to do boring and other things about their work.”

At the time, when he worked at the French game giant Ubisoft, he had an idea for his project. Inspired by Classic Japanese Series Final Fantasy, one of his favorites as a childhood.

It will be ambiguous: Expedition 33 is a sense of five years later.

It sold a million copies in just three days and was praised for the SPOTIFY virus chart as the soundtrack. French President Emmanuel Macron.

But one of the most amazing things about it is the story of how it was made -the story of a random Reddit message, a unusual approach to “huge luck” and game development.

Expedition 33 is built in Lumiere and is located in Lumiere, a fictional world of virtual, with a huge monolith with a shining number on the face.

Every year, a group known as Paintess appears, and the number is lowered one by one, and all people of that age disappear, and the game follows the group in a quest to destroy a mysterious being.

It’s an interesting setting for epic story, but the aesthetics of this game, inspired by France in the 19th century, have also differentiated old -fashioned turn -based battles.

But the existing wisdom when Ki Illa began was that the player didn’t want it.

So five years ago, he began to recruit people for passion projects and launch a message about Reddit and online forums to potential colleagues.

One of the respondents was Jennifer Svedberg-Yen closed in Australia.

“I saw a post about Guillaume’s Reddit asking the voice actor to record something for free for the demonstration,” she said.

“I was as follows: ‘I never did it.

Jennifer was originally cast as a major character in the initial version of the game, but eventually changed its role to become the lead writer of the team.

Guillaume eventually left Ubisoft and formed a Sandfall Interactive and worked as a clair ambiguous full time at the base in Montpellier, France.

After securing funds from the publisher Kepler Interactive, the core team has grown to about 30.

Many of them were found in a similar and unusual way to Jennifer.

Composer Lorien Testard, who has never played video games, was found in a post on the music sharing website SOUNDCLOUD.

Jennifer said, “This is called the ila effect. He is very good at finding really cool people.

Guillaume more properly belongs to his success rate of his success rate Covid -a creative outlet and his success rate for “huge luck.”

“This is always the same story,” he says.

“I have a list of 15 people and I am as follows:” Perhaps no one will. “

“And the first is ‘Yes, let’s do it’.”

But Guillaume admits that he targeted people who seemed to be “in the direction” that he wanted to start the project.

“Lorien, when we first discussed the game, we had exactly the same reference,” he says.

“We liked the same. We saw the same. The discussion was so fluid.”

Expedition 33 is also widely praised for production value.

GUILLAUME allows some of these to make the team work more efficiently due to the recent development of the tools used to make games.

Sponsored by Kepler, Studio was able to attract actors, including Charlie Cox of DareDevil, Star of the Rings Andy Serkis, and Video Game Actor Jennifer English and Ben STARR.

And Sandfall demanded additional information from support studios, musicians and other experts, but Jennifer and Guillaume said the key teams are “wearing many other hats.”

Jennifer, who translates the game into another language, said, “So we all do our best to do be beyond the traditional role and deal with other parts.

Guillaume said, “We are mainly an amazing team of junior people, but I think it is a huge investment and talent in the project.

“Somehow it worked, but it still doesn’t make sense even after a few years.”

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