The pioneers of the adventure RPG are trying something different with their next game.
With the Quest for Glory series, Lori and Corey Cole pioneered a peanut-butter-and-chocolate hybrid of the RPG and adventure game that combined the best of both genres. The husband-and-wife duo had a shared background in tabletop roleplaying—which is how they met—and were inspired by the fluid way tabletop RPGs move between conversation, puzzle-solving, combat, and exploration.
"It's a departure from our normal games," Lori says with some understatement. She mentions games like Hanako Games' Magical Diary series, which are also set in a magical school, as well as Long Live the Queen and Dream Daddy as examples of the kind of visual novel Summer Daze is closer to."As I see it," Lori adds,"it's distilling all the good parts out of an adventure game, i.e.
While speed was an advantage of the form, in the end it took four years from the Kickstarter to completion."There was this little pandemic in between," Corey explains,"and that caused ripple effects. We had a key team member leave and had to replace her, and then we've been caregiving for my mother. Basically, the outside world has come into the process."
With help from voice director Dave Gilbert of Wadjet Eye, the studio behind games like Unavowed—another adventure game that learned a few lessons from RPGs—they found ways to make recording affordable. It helped that Zehra Fazal, who had voiced characters in Young Justice, Bojack Horseman, and Dragon Age: Absolution before being cast as elven rogue Tilly, was a fan of Quest for Glory.
What their plans for the future don't include is a sequel to Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption. Though they'd planned one called Hero-U: Wizard's Way, it's unfortunately been postponed indefinitely."If we ever are able to get back to the Hero-U series, it will mean one of our games going viral or something so we have a huge budget again," Corey says."We spent a million dollars or so on that game, and we just don't have the deep pockets to do that.
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