Abstract
- Impressed by the actual glaciers within the Alps, Dungeons of Hinterberg’s Glacier overworld gives a novel and playful expertise of magical snowboarding, exploration, fight, and discovery, with hidden secrets and techniques, adventures, and rewards.
- The Glacier overworld is non-linear and requires gamers to resolve puzzles, full challenges, and revisit the world at completely different factors. Like different overworlds, the gameplay is affected by the social dynamics in Hinterberg, as gamers construct their fame and connections to entry new locations and meet new NPCs.
- Dungeons of Hinterberg can be obtainable on day one with Sport Cross for Xbox Collection X|S and Home windows.
Because the authentic reveal of Dungeons of Hinterberg through the Xbox Video games Showcase this previous June, we’ve gotten a gradual stream of reports and knowledge from its creators. Whether or not it was getting a primary hands-on and take a look at the mountainous overworld and dungeons throughout throughout gamescom, or studying extra concerning the social-sim side that gamers will expertise within the idyllic city of Hinterberg throughout Xbox Companion Preview, we’ve been handled to plenty of nice particulars en path to the sport’s 2024 launch!
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However Microbird couldn’t allow us to sneak off into the vacations with out one other nice take a look at Dungeons of Hinterberg, and at the moment we have been handled to a preview of its Glacier overworld as a part of their newest livestream. Following that, we caught up with Co-Founder and Artwork Director for Microbird Video games Regina Reisinger to get some extra particulars on the icy overworld, how gamers can construct rep, and monsters… so many monsters.
Are you able to inform us just a little bit concerning the 4 overworlds and the way they perform in Dungeons of Hinterberg?
The overworlds are an integral a part of your vacation in Hinterberg: daily of your trip begins with a hearty breakfast, after which it’s time to resolve which of the overworlds you wish to go to at the moment. Overworlds are distinct, mid-sized areas round Hinterberg, and are all impressed by actual Austrian landscapes and biomes. All of them maintain ample alternative and area to discover, combat monsters, uncover some secrets and techniques, or simply sit down in an exquisite spot and meditate for a day.
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There are 4 visually distinct overworlds that each one supply their very own taste of magic as effectively. In the event you really feel like a calming hike, why not go to the luxurious inexperienced mountain meadows of Doberkogel? Are you in a extra serene temper? Think about visiting Hinterwald, a picturesque forest the place you possibly can stroll between tall bushes and little streamlets, whereas recognizing some deer within the distance. Or if you wish to quiet down, you can take the cable automotive as much as Kolmstein, a glacier that’s coated in snow and ice all 12 months spherical.
We’ve seen gameplay within the Forest and Mountain overworlds – and now Glacier! Are you able to share extra concerning the means of creating the Glacier overworld?
The glacier is an overworld that could be very pricey to our hearts, and one which was plenty of enjoyable to design. It’s the third overworld that may turn into obtainable within the recreation, and it switches up how we deal with motion, by offering Luisa and the gamers with a magic hoverboard ability. We actually wished to seize the wonderful feeling that you just get in actual life when snowboarding or snowboarding down a wide-open slope filled with snow, surrounded by mountains and a view that goes on for miles. We used Unity’s terrain system, combined with some manually constructed components, so we may create precisely the form of exploration expertise that we imagined.
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What distinctive skills can gamers anticipate from the Glacier overworld?
As already talked about, the hoverboard is among the two magic abilities distinctive to the glacier, and doubtless the one gamers will use essentially the most. Zipping alongside the snowy panorama at a dizzying tempo, grinding alongside magical rails and making an attempt to finish difficult slalom programs are simply a few of the enjoyable issues you are able to do with this ability. And naturally, it is useful in fight as effectively, the place you should use it to knock over enemies and draw a flaming barrier behind you. The second ability is a magical gentle ray that can be utilized to resolve puzzles, hit enemies, or manipulate your setting. Combining each – grinding alongside a rail whereas zapping enemies or targets round you – is numerous enjoyable as effectively.
You’ve spoken a bit about how Dungeons of Hinterberg’s setting and monsters are impressed by areas in Austria and its folklore. What inspirations have immediately influenced the Glacier overworld?
The glacier overworld is definitely one the place we took plenty of inspiration from the actual world. The Alps are identified for his or her glaciers, the place you possibly can expertise a wintery panorama all 12 months spherical: even in summer time, you may solely be a cable automotive trip away from a mountaintop coated in ice and snow. This makes a glacier form of a particular and magical place in and of itself. Sadly, the altering local weather has turn into a hazard for these biomes as effectively. That’s one more reason why it was essential to us to attempt to seize that distinctive aptitude and feeling; to share it with gamers and hopefully make them recognize this distinctive biome as a lot as we do!
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What are you most excited for gamers to take a look at within the Glacier overworld when Dungeons of Hinterberg launches subsequent 12 months?
The glacier overworld has a really non-linear, playful feeling to it. You possibly can overlook a lot of the biome out of your first vantage level, however reaching and having access to all these areas, and the dungeon portals hidden there, isn’t as straightforward. Gamers might want to discover, puzzle, full challenges, and revisit the overworld at completely different factors all through the sport. We’re very excited for gamers to find all these spots, and are trying ahead to seeing how they strategy navigating this particular overworld – be it on a magical hoverboard or on foot.
You’ve shared with us beforehand on how a few of the social dynamics work in Dungeons of Hinterberg. Are you able to share some extra about how these completely different biomes will have an effect on Luisa? I think about a Glacier world could not maintain the identical kind of social interactions one may have within the Forest, for instance.
A lot of the socializing takes place within the village of Hinterberg, your house base that you just return to each night. That doesn’t imply that you just gained’t want any assist from your folks and connections with regards to navigating the overworlds, although! Some locations may solely be accessible to you you probably have a adequate fame round Hinterberg, or a robust good friend to offer you a leg up. And sometimes you may even meet a good friend in the midst of a snowy slope, who may provide you with some rewards for instructing them a lesson in hoverboarding!
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Because of Regina Reisinger for taking a while to talk with us at the moment. You possibly can search for Dungeons of Hinterberg to launch day one with Sport Cross for Xbox Collection X|S and Home windows in 2024.