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Size Five Games’ Dan Marshall has revealed he scrapped a planned sequel to 2015 crime caper The Swindle to work on a brand new game.
Speaking to the Eurogamer Podcast, Marshall said the sequel was his original follow up to 2020’s Lair of the Clockwork God. However, he changed tack soon after starting work on the project. “But when I actually came to make it, I was thinking, ‘I don’t want to just spend the next three years of my life making the exact same thing again. I just felt like I needed to make something… I could see it was going to have the same problems and I was going to be facing the same bugs, and I was going to be doing the same things and my heart sank.”
Marshall then started and scrapped work on a second prototype, before settling on a first-person spaceship idea. “The idea is you’re on a spaceship with lots of monitors around you – so it’s a first-person 3D game on a spaceship bridge with lots of monitors around you and maps and things – and if you’ve got squadrons of fighters in your dock, you can send them off to go and attack other spaceships, and you can look up and see it all happening.”
The two man team’s latest offering will start smaller in scope, but will later expand: “If it works and people like it, I can expand it out and add other mysteries and places. I can add to it and keep adding different aspects to it. But it never needs to come out. It’s more like No Man’s Sky or Project Zomboid – [it] doesn’t necessarily need to ever be finished.”
There’s no word on platforms or an ETA for the unnamed game just yet, but hopefully we’ll hear more soon.
