Hi there, readers! I’m Luc Baghadoust, Govt Producer of Don’t Nod Montréal’s newly introduced narrative journey sport, Misplaced Data: Bloom & Rage. I’m right here to speak a bit in regards to the sport, our studio, and the groups concerned in bringing this new story to life. We’re thrilled to lastly reveal at tonight’s The Sport Awards what we’ve been engaged on and are so happy with: a brand new sport and a brand new sequence!
Misplaced Data: Bloom & Rage started after Michel Koch (Inventive Director) and I labored on Life is Unusual 1 and 2, once we obtained the chance to kickstart a brand new journey for Don’t Nod: forming a brand new studio in Montréal. Increasing abroad had been a dialogue for some time and with sturdy help from Don’t Nod Paris, we made the leap. Michel and I each already beloved North America, and the business is vibrant right here, with so many thrilling studios and abilities.
A world pandemic was not one thing that we anticipated, clearly, and it was a problem to set the whole lot up. Fortunately, Don’t Nod adopted a distant work coverage company-wide, which enabled us to collaborate remotely. Creating a brand new staff was an interesting expertise. Together with Don’t Nod Montréal’s Managing Director, Frédérique Fourny-Jennings, we’re shaping the studio’s imaginative and prescient and its initiatives. We had been fortunate to have the ability to convey Don’t Nod’s uniqueness and values to the Montréal scene.
We introduced with us key individuals who had been engaged on earlier Life is Unusual video games akin to Baptiste Moisan, our Lead Designer, and Juliette Devillers, our Lead Character Artist, amongst others. We’ve additionally been in a position to entice incredible expertise to the Montréal Studio, quite a lot of whom had been impacted by these video games and wished to assist us inform our new story. So an enormous thanks to the staff in Montréal and every new expertise that has joined us and helped make all of the items click on collectively.
Jean-Luc Cano, who wrote the scripts for Life is Unusual 1 and a pair of, and his staff of wonderful writers collaborated intently with Michel in growing the story and characters of Reunion. We firmly imagine that the most effective characters ship the most effective tales, and we predict you’ll all love Swann, Nora, Autumn, and Kat: 4 highschool buddies that type bonds over the course of a once-in-a-lifetime summer season. Destiny sees them reunite 27 years later after promising to by no means converse once more. It’s a reflective story with friendship, emotion, thriller, and magical surrealism.
Now about Misplaced Data! Bloom & Rage is the primary sport within the Misplaced Data universe. We clearly wished to proceed creating narrative journey video games with a robust deal with characters that resonate with folks. Bloom & Rage shares quite a lot of DNA with our earlier video games, but in addition innovates in some areas too. Making a universe and having the tales inside it interconnect with one another is one thing we’ve been dreaming of. The probabilities are infinite and the tales we are able to inform inside this universe are large. Don’t Nod Montréal is tough at work ensuring we convey these concepts and video games to life!
Misplaced Data: Bloom & Rage is scheduled for launch in late 2024 however if you wish to sustain with information and updates, observe Misplaced Data on X, Instagram, and TikTok. There’s undoubtedly extra to come back that we are able to’t wait to point out you.
