How did the original concepts for the game and its gameplay mechanics evolve over time? You can do nothing to avoid it, but feel pity about what we are doing to our world and will reflect about our actions. This encourages players to create a bond with the environment, which soon enough starts getting destroyed by human action. Then we have the exploration, which is not linear but happens around lairs where you can stay safe. She can’t do anything that a fox wouldn’t do, and she can't reason like a human, so she is one hundred percent pure innocence. For that reason, we added a few ingredients to the “cauldron of emotions,” each one of them bolstering the sense of belonging.įirst off, you are a mother fox whose motivation is to feed and keep her litter safe from predators. Ramello: One of the main ideas for Endling was to make the player feel part of a dying world, and to be a spectator of how everything is degrading day after day. How did you come up with the concept for Endling? Studio founder Javier Ramello Marchioni spoke with us about how the studio hopes to achieve that deep emotional connection with players, as well as why the studio’s founding principles are so important to the developers working on Endling. So it’s no surprise that the studio’s first game is a deeply evocative tale about the last foxes on Earth and the struggle of a mother fox to protect her litter as she explores a ravaged dystopian future created by humanity.Įndling is a highly stylized 3D sidescroller designed to drop players into a “cauldron of emotions” by asking them to traverse and feel part of a dying world while controlling an innocent mother fox with no special abilities. At the studio’s heart is a passionate belief in the importance of environmentalism and animal rights. About a journey through from den to den, in hopes of survival.įormed in 2017 in Barcelona, Spain, Herobeat Studios was founded by a group of developers from an eclectic mix of studios from around the world.
To care about a vixen and her pups, the last surviving skulk of foxes on the planet. To care about the environment wrecked by a careless humanity.
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