Dark Earth Creator Interview | Guillaume Le Pennec

0:00 Intro 1:41 Alone in the Dark, Guillaume's career as a journalist 4:24 Influences, similarities with The City of Lost Children 6:28 Ron Perlman / Fallout 7:05 Mindscape and the formation of Kalisto Entertainment 10:07 What could you have improved about Dark Earth given more time/budget? 13:07 Learning curves, the evolution of game manuals and tutorials 15:59 Effort that went into optional content 17:54 Voice acting challenges 28:11 Crunch time, game development issues 34:48 Middle-market games and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 39:59 Alone in the Dark, cinematic angle, "tank-controls" games 46:49 Nightmare Creatures 48:49 Games Journalism 51:15 French adventure games 55:27 Bioforge 57:04 The hybridization of role-playing games and adventure games 1:00:19 Zed's character, was there additional story with him that was cut? 1:06:04 Dark Earth tabletop role-playing game 1:12:04 Dark Earth animation, movie, TV show 1:14:13 Terry Gilliam 1:14:16 Steven Spielberg 1:15:04 Heart of Darkness 1:15:22 Dark Earth novel - 'The Torch' 1:17:07 Dark Earth intellectual property, future Dark Earth movie? 1:20:55 Dark Earth sequels 1:21:25 Square-published sequel - Dark Earth: Silent Chaos 1:25:47 Pac-Man game 1:26:13 Retaining Dark Earth's lore and coherency 1:33:42 Did the Sunseers actually have any power? 1:39:15 Characters misunderstanding a fictional world, Horizon: Zero Dawn 1:40:47 Similarities to Horizon: Zero Dawn 1:41:38 Dark Earth sequel concept 1:46:23 What do you think games could get better at in the future? 1:49:48 Games about societal collapse 1:55:01 What Guillaume is doing today, translation work, etc. 1:56:11 Jim Butcher novels, demographic shift in readers 2:00:29 Would you ever get back into game design again? 2:01:50 Did you work with or know Yves Guillemot (Ubisoft CEO)? 2:04:25 What led to Kalisto's bankruptcy? Court battle 2:09:30 Possibility of a Ubisoft-Kalisto merger 2:10:31 Profitable partnerships cancelled at the last minute 2:14:32 Anything you'd like to add? 2:15:35 Trying to get Dark Earth on GOG/working on modern computers 2:18:30 Troubles with EA, Mindscape and Microprose