“Challenge Accepted”: The Alters Game Director On Blending Survival And Narrative Genres
When a game boasts such an intriguing narrative hook, I always wonder what came first - the story or the core gameplay loop. Did the team know they wanted to tell a specific tale and build gameplay systems around it, or vice versa? It’s a conundrum that surfaces in so many great games nowadays, and I felt it in my preview of upcoming survival titleThe Alters. This new project from 11 Bit Studios focuses on Jan Dolksi, the sole survivor of a space expedition to a distant, hostile planet....