“Bible Adventures was the massive one we received – I feel that may have been the very first one we even tried to get. We’re large followers of it right here – there’s a guide by Gabe Durham that’s all in regards to the historical past of that sport and its developer, Knowledge Tree, and the way they skirted the legislation to promote bootleg NES carts. It’s such a loopy story, and it’s an honor to function the sport right here. I received’t spoil the opposite ones, however Bible Adventures does get featured vastly within the sport throughout [a boss fight]. I’m actually happy with that half – it took loads of work and we did it simply because it made us chortle and appeared like an insane factor to decide to.”
However alongside the jokes that include large quantities of planning, there are additionally ones that sprung up by likelihood – sport improvement’s “improv”, maybe. All through a inventive course of there’ll little question be surprises alongside the best way, components you had not anticipated, or possibilities to take that simply occur to work out. Within the case of Excessive On Life 2, that got here within the type of the tutorial to assist get you on the brand new skateboard for the primary time.
“It’s very early on within the sport, and to show the participant use their new skateboard we’ve Gene lookup a video on-line, and he reveals it to you,” Robbins tells me. “The video is simply one thing I shot with my good friend Jon Millstein, a skater and comic, with my telephone in a parking zone close to the Los Angeles Zoo. I wrote this lengthy monologue for Jon to learn, filled with particular sport controls and directions, and he memorized it almost on the spot in an alien masks. It’s one in all my favourite components of the sport and it got here collectively rapidly on a budget, on the final minute. We shot it in an hour, I went dwelling and edited it that evening, and by the following day it was already within the sport. That’s the Squanch magic!”
This “magic” is what holds the ambitiously hilarious Excessive On Life 2 collectively, via crisp writing, inventive gameplay (skateboards!), and an extremely immersive world for us to discover. It’s developed with a swagger, assured that their humorousness will resonate with sufficient of us to take even greater swings at turning “enjoyable to play” into “humorous.” Excessive On Life 2 is about to indicate us what can occur when a gaggle of inventive sport builders craft one thing that’s centered round a singular goal: To make us chortle our asses off.
