Guerrilla Video games has mentioned the origins of Lego Horizon Adventures and the choice to launch the sport for Nintendo Swap.
Introduced throughout final week’s Summer time Sport Fest showcase, the motion journey title will hit PS5, PC and Nintendo’s console this vacation season.
Co-developed by Guerrilla and Studio Gobo, it’s billed as “a playful and light-hearted story impressed by the occasions of the world of Horizon”.
The sport has been in improvement for about three years, in accordance with James Windeler, a story director at Guerrilla who advised VGC the studio performs dwelling to “tons of Lego followers”.
“The story is that we prototyped the primary machines for Horizon Zero Daybreak with Duplo,” he mentioned in an interview following the sport’s reveal. “There are fanatics throughout the studio who’ve whole rooms of their homes dedicated to Lego”.
“Additionally, there was the need from devs who had been engaged on the Horizon video games for eight, 10 years and needed to make one thing that was much more whimsical and enjoyable, and to form of have enjoyable with the IP.”
Windeler mentioned Lego was “drawn to the world of Horizon as a result of it’s a shiny and vibrant world”, and since there are “a lot of components inside it that translate clearly into Lego, just like the machines”.
He additionally mentioned that whereas the themes in the principle video games will be fairly darkish, “a way of optimism and hope that runs by all of them” appealed to Lego, as did “the inclusivity of our fanbase”.
Requested concerning the resolution to launch the sport for Swap, Windeler mentioned: “It was only a actually distinctive alternative for us. It was a pure match for the ambitions that we had.
“I hold mentioning it, however we would like this to be for everybody, and the Swap is known as a platform that enables us to broaden the viewers.
“That ethos goes throughout the sport, from the management schemes that are fairly easy, [for example] it really works on a single Pleasure-Con, after which additionally the simplification of the story, the lightening of the themes, the humour – it’s all a part of the identical ambition.”
