Over the past few months, we’ve been learning more and more about the developer of Wild Wits’ upcoming strategy RPG card battle adventure Crown Gambit, as we had the opportunity to speak with the developer at Gamescom in August, and now we’re expanding on it. that work by interviewing art director Antoine “Gobert” Tabouret-Loudéac again in a new interview.
In the video (which you can watch below), Gobert tells us about the inspiration behind some of the most interesting elements in Crown Gambit, including the Wonder of the Western World, the abbey France’s magnificent Mont Saint-Michel How it inspired the creation of the game’s kingdom capital, and how the Game of Thrones spin-off series House of the Dragon plays into the Succession War element of the narrative .
“So the game is about this kingdom, Mildred’s Kingdom, and it’s inspired by Mont Saint-Michel in France, which was kind of a huge sea fortress. Our version is obviously a lot bigger, but it was a large, important kingdom in which the nobles used relics, which were powerful techniques that allowed them to use supernatural abilities, which allowed them to have great power over the people.
“The king has the crown, that is the relic that controls all the memories. So, in the game, you have to go through a very deep conflict within this capital, within this kingdom, which is essentially a war of continuity, so your mission is find relics that belong to the king, and your job is to find out who you want to support as the next ruler.
“So, Crown Gambit is about navigating this world and this social conflict and trying to find a better option, or maybe the worst option, you might to say In fact, when we started to make the game. [House of the Dragon] At the time, it had just been released, so we were really in this kind of continuity war where everyone was really bad in their own way, so definitely you had to find the one you felt the worst, or the worst. you felt the worst, in a funny way or in a way that could make you happy. Yeah, like you said, it’s about finding the right choices in a very bleak world.
For those wondering if the House of Dragon reference means the giant fire-breathing reptilewill be appearing in Crown Gambit, Gobert said: ” We don’t have dragons. It’s a pretty low fantasy scenario.
Crown Gambit is set to launch on Steam in 2025, following a successful and busy Kickstarter earlier this year.
