'Being an adventurer is a shit line of work.' We talk to the creators of DarkestDungeon about where the series came from, and where it's going now
What I find fascinating about Darkest Dungeon, and what I've always found fascinating about it, is how the series rethinks the experience of what being a fantasy adventurer would actually be like.
A major inspiration for this was the film Aliens, which Bourassa reckons is"one of the best ensemble films of all time"."It explores heroism by contrast, really," he says."And that became another central tenet of the game, where you're not owed a valiant victory but they do exist." Band of Brothers was another inspiration.
The concept was also influenced by conversations like:"Imagine you're sitting around the campfire and the Ranger hates the Priest, and then they go to sleep and they wake up furious at each other," Bourassa says. And by the idea of it being uncompromising as an experience - uncompromising but not specifically 'hard'."It's permanent consequences for decisions that you make under duress with imperfect information," Bourassa says.
These fundamental ideas being higher level and unattached to specific templates also meant there was room for them to be reinterpreted for Darkest Dungeon 2, the sequel that just been released. But apparently the decision to move onto a sequel wasn't a clear-cut thing.
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