Kinda Funny Games: Developer Interview with Hellblade 2 Studio Head Dom Matthews

[Gamernyc78]

Development is complete, no day 1 patch but they will look into updates post-launch
- 100% performance captured, every movement, combat animation is captured. For comparison, HB1 required 2 days of performance capture. HB2 required 69 days of performance capture.
- Consulted with psychosis experts / professors to capture accurate feel of Senua's state
- Worked with Epic on Unreal Engine 5
- 80 people worked on the game
- Dolby Atmos supported
- Asked about the marketing, Dom says he's just focused on getting the game out Tuesday right now
- They did not feel the need to artificially lenghten the game, they wanted the game to be the appropriate for their story
- Greg asks Dom about the recent studio closures and Dom briefly comments on it but mostly avoids answering it directly
- Dom talks positively about Phil and Mat having no issue letting NT make the game they wanted
- NT felt like they needed to make a sequel worthy to the firs game
- Asked about a possible Enslaved Odyssey to the West sequel, Dom said that is not up to them

 

[Gamernyc78]

Development is complete, no day 1 patch but they will look into updates post-launch
- 100% performance captured, every movement, combat animation is captured. For comparison, HB1 required 2 days of performance capture. HB2 required 69 days of performance capture.
- Consulted with psychosis experts / professors to capture accurate feel of Senua's state
- Worked with Epic on Unreal Engine 5
- 80 people worked on the game
- Dolby Atmos supported
- Asked about the marketing, Dom says he's just focused on getting the game out Tuesday right now
- They did not feel the need to artificially lenghten the game, they wanted the game to be the appropriate for their story
- Greg asks Dom about the recent studio closures and Dom briefly comments on it but mostly avoids answering it directly
- Dom talks positively about Phil and Mat having no issue letting NT make the game they wanted
- NT felt like they needed to make a sequel worthy to the firs game
- Asked about a possible Enslaved Odyssey to the West sequel, Dom said that is not up to them

"Asked about the marketing, Dom says he's just focused on getting game out by Tuesday"

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

The remaining one?

 

[voke]

Why in earth did he ask those terminally online Xbot questions about marketing

Why would you ask him about studio closures? Does he not realize that’s a pretty sensitive topic?

 

[Gamernyc78]

Why in earth did he ask those terminally online Xbot questions about marketing

Why would you ask him about studio closures? Does he not realize that’s a pretty sensitive topic?

That bone of them would be honest about.

 

[Exicide]

"- Consulted with psychosis experts / professors to capture accurate feel of Senua's state"

this is one of my favorite parts about this series, after finishing Hellblade 1, I sat and watched the entire behind the scenes of the game they have in game, it was such a great insight to how detailed they get, the little things you didn't notice, and they shared their talks with people who actually suffer from various forms of psychosis, it was a very interesting piece, I'm glad I watched it.

 

[Gamernyc78]

"- Consulted with psychosis experts / professors to capture accurate feel of Senua's state"

this is one of my favorite parts about this series, after finishing Hellblade 1, I sat and watched the entire behind the scenes of the game they have in game, it was such a great insight to how detailed they get, the little things you didn't notice, and they shared their talks with people who actually suffer from various forms of psychosis, it was a very interesting piece, I'm glad I watched it.

Thts cool..when devs do their research I love it.