We sat down for a chat with Simon the Sorcerer Origins developers SmallthingStds on bringing back the classic '90s adventure hero: SimonTheSorcerer SimonTheSorcererOrigins
. However, this one is being created by a brand new studio to the formerly British series with Italian outfit Smallthing Studios – alongside Leonardo Interactive – taking on development duties. We spoke with lead game designer and narrative designer Fabrizo Rizzo about bringing the series back, and an unexpected yet fabulous collaboration.: Our game director Massimiliano Calamai is a huge fan of the series.
On the other side, we are very passionate about our job, a lot of us are on the younger side as developers but we have a deep love of this industry. For example, talking about myself, I wanted to be a game designer since I was five years old. Also our game director Massimiliano Calamai is a huge gamer with a lot of experience in this industry and is a serious collector, he has anything and he loves any games, he’s on another level as a collector.
On a writing standpoint, some aspects of the original Simon as a character were not in line with the age that the character was and it is not in line with our day and age and with what our company believes in terms of the kind of humour and the kind of both language and ideas, let’s say that. So we did not want to bring that kind of stuff back. Yeah, and simply because that was not in line with the character we were talking about.
Personally, just because I wanted to give that impression, I started to watch teen movies from the ’80s and the ’90s. Yeah, they were the kind of movie as a child. And I wanted that kind of feeling, that kind of – the feel of a character that is out of place, that is finding his own way and full of energy but is also snarky and sarcastic. The kind of character that is not perfect but that can give a firm response every now and then. And we want to keep that kind of humour.
VG: You mentioned this in the presentation earlier, and covered it a little bit just now – but how did Rick Astley get involved? How did that come about? So, I said before, one day Massimiliano Calamai, reached out to me and said “You know Fabrio, you know what would be really awesome?” “What Massi?” “If we could get a song from Rick Astley?”
And it’s not just the work of Mr Astley, of course.. The entity of the soundtrack is based on the original soundtrack from the first game. You may have noticed that there was a little ‘top secret’ written, and that’s just a small secret we will be revealing in the future. Let’s just say it is something that is worth the wait to uncover.
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