More than three years after departing BioWare and later founding his own studio, Aaryn Flynn’s next project has finally been announced. The former BioWare boss turned up on stage at last week’s Game Awards to show off Nightingale, a “shared-world survival crafting game” – the first project from Inflexion Games.
But while that trailer gave us a good idea of Nightingale’s alternate history fantasy setting, it gave less away on what the game will actually be like to play – and what might have changed since it was originally teased as an online multiplayer RPG.
I chatted with Flynn via Zoom last week, shortly before The Game Awards, to find out more.
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“We had imagined the kinds of things we would build in this game, and the kinds of things players would get to do in this game,” Flynn says when I ask about the change in genre label. “Over the past couple of years, we just found these new opportunities to take the game and new places we could go… ad they seem to resonate with the world we’re building and some of the fundamental choices we’d made early on, like, create a world that is highly interactive, and really empower players to do what they want.