The idyllic villages you would often associate with Southwest France have been ravaged by plague and death

“We don’t want it to be a fantastical game, we want to make a medieval game that’s authentic, but we can play with the rats to make it something bigger.” “ Everything that is fantastic is linked with the rats. “W hat we did is take a historical fact, build up our base game and put a bit of fantastical on top of it to create a tale,” Coteau said.

“It was easy for us to do that and it felt truly authentic”Īlthough the game is set in a period of history that was already chock-full of horrors, Coteau wanted to take it further by adding ‘fantastical’ elements to the game. “We are based in Baldo in Southwest France, so we showed our neighbourhood and our region, even if it has changed a bit. “One first step to do that was to talk about a place we knew. “W e wanted to tell a story that sounded authentic, that sounded true, w ith real believable characters,” Coteau said. The masked leader of the Inquisition is hot on the children’s heelsĪsobo Studio, the game’s developer, is based in France, so it seemed logical to have the game’s setting in a place they knew best.

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