New platforms like Nintendo Switch 2 are a siren call for many developers. And being selected to launch through Nintendo can be a great honor for a game studio. So the developers would be surprised to see one of the special titles from some of the launch platforms Survivors. This is published by Konami, but was fully manufactured at home by the Engine and the Advertising Company Alliance.
Given the pre -hatred for sports development with their own engines of alliance (a practice called sometimes “”Dog Fooding“), The company was surprised to see such a prominent place. But as producer Andy Denyson explained to the game developer, it does not mean that the alliance is involved in internal game development. The team has developed. Survivors To achieve two major goals: First, make the Dancyon team completely “end -to -end” with the alliance to help the team in their important task: Paraching the coalition developers to help solve specific technical issues related to engine.
And second: Alliance for the release of Nintendo Switch 2 – and prepare whatever it uses.
By Cow to Survivors
Alliance began to play with their software in 2022 CowWhich aims to “sample” sports and commercial products. But just two months after the game’s announcement, he allegedly discharged Most part of the development team And canceled the project.
That same year, the alliance was quietly expanding a division in the UK called “Unity Studio Production”. Her first employee was Daneson, who guides the studio, mainly helping developers to improve the “behind the screen” alliance. “You often don’t hear about work,” he said in a recent chat with the game developer.
Denyson said many of these small projects were taught many lessons that could be used to improve the engine. He explained, “But they are always relatively tight windows in the development of the game.” You are just looking at a particular problem or platform. “He created the alliance to survive the idea of fullying engine fully in the engine from the end to the end.
At the end of 2022, Denyson and his colleagues linked to the Games in the German city of Cologne, and confronted it with Konami Europe’s executive Richard Jones. There were both teams hitting him, and Survivors In March 2023, the development entered.
Photo through unity/confinement.
Denyson said the team in the team Lamington Spa Area (Code Masters, Playground Games and Rare) Survivors Relatively Quick In a two -year period. Neither Konami nor the alliance relied on the game’s success to advance its financing, Daneson said, adding that the studio production team could focus on “imitation of many of our users”.
He observed, “They are playing with (the schedules), they have to think very carefully with this scope, and a team that they have to manage and take care of.” “I think the daily copy of our customers, and how they run their business, was also important.”
That is why he is happy that the studio called it a “big” game – the plateframers or the mobile game alliance is not widely used. It also made Unity Studio Production one of the first teams, which features two key switch 2: Take a look at the game share and the game chat.
Survivors Better for Game Share and Game Chat
Nintendo Switch 2 is not a console that features important gameplay features such as Wii, Wii U, or switch. Its basic progress comes in the form of minor Upgrade and AI upgrade to internal hardwareFor, for, for,. A Joey which mouse modeAnd A huge number of social qualities Marriage of Nintendo’s first largest party in the world of online multi -player sports.
Denyson said the alliance learned about social qualities after work began SurvivorsBut “Stars Straight” and game became a strong test bed for two main features: game share and game chat. Daneson was especially proud of the work done on the game share, which allows one player to convert another switch and 2 users to his game session without installing additional software. He explained, “This is mainly an extension of the spiral screen technology. When players use with the game share SurvivorsTheir device offers a separate game camera for each player and delivers it to other switch devices. The alliance was already developing a spiral screen of two players for the local game, but found that it could and improve the engine to help three players on the game share.
“We worked really closely with the platform team, who did not have another test case for it at this stage because it’s so new.”
Made it too Survivors How can game designers think about game players can be a test for they want to play with the game chat. Developers We have talked about how “presence” and vacancies where players can rest and make their own games are part of an emerging trend that is especially popular among young audiences.
According to Diesen, once Nintendo said how to handle the components of the chat 2 games, his team doubled on the “immoral system” as a social and cooperation device for the game. The players can tap the “emirate” button to automatically run the “smart emute” that alleviates that they are trying to communicate mostly, or use a wheel -like interface to select specific emotions such as flagging. This emotional flag pops up emoji on other players’ screens, and points them to the direction of their partner.
Focusing on emotions alliances in the same camp like riot sports, counting on them Promote social Aspect of its upcoming tag team fighting game 2xko.
Danisson worked on rare before The sea of thievesSo he is aware of such a game. He still thinks that the industry is just “scratching the level” of this genre. “This is really encouraging communal games. I think there is another 20 years of innovation in this place, of course.”
Just don’t expect that the production of the Alliance Studio is innovation. Denyson made it clear that his team’s first priority is “Everything we can do internally to ensure that what we prepare is confirmed by the production.” It is the company’s policy to ensure that the engine ready for the launch of a new platform such as switch 2 is zero, and in this case, making an actual game to target this goal was a great way. Now this is not the main focus of the team Survivors The door is out.
But this can happen again – in the right circumstances. “We would like to find the right opportunity to re -share someone, and the right” story “about the technology that we are going to emphasize, the next product, said. “I would definitely like to find it – what are the opportunities for us?”
