Whats up, readers! I’m Luc Baghadoust, Government 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 Recreation Awards what we’ve been engaged on and are so pleased with: a brand new sport and a brand new sequence!
Misplaced Data: Bloom & Rage started after Michel Koch (Artistic Director) and I labored on Life is Unusual 1 and 2, once we acquired 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 robust help from Don’t Nod Paris, we made the leap. Michel and I each already beloved North America, and the trade is vibrant right here, with so many thrilling studios and abilities.
A worldwide pandemic was not one thing that we anticipated, clearly, and it was a problem to set all the pieces up. Fortunately, Don’t Nod adopted a distant work coverage company-wide, which enabled us to collaborate remotely. Creating a brand new crew was an enchanting 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 deliver 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 equivalent 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, a variety of whom had been impacted by these video games and needed to assist us inform our new story. So an enormous thanks to the crew 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 crew of wonderful writers collaborated intently with Michel in growing the story and characters of Misplaced Data: Bloom & Rage. We firmly imagine that the very best characters ship the very best tales, and we predict you’ll all love Swann, Nora, Autumn, and Kat: 4 highschool associates that kind 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 needed to proceed creating narrative journey video games with a powerful concentrate on characters that resonate with individuals. Bloom & Rage shares a variety 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 will inform inside this universe are enormous. Don’t Nod Montréal is tough at work ensuring we deliver 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 will’t wait to point out you.