Rain Games hoping to turn Teslagrad into a series, wants the game out on Wii U this year
A portion of a Nintendo Life interview with Rain Games...
NL: So you’re planning to turn this into a series?
Magnus Holm: Yes. I’ll tell you a bit more about that. This is part of the Chroma series. Chroma is like Europe, but Teslagrad is the main capital of Elektropia, which is like Norway to Russia, like the technological / electrical sciences area. England is like Angloria, which is about biomechanics and the you have other areas (like France) that are the great mechanical parts of the world.
Originally we made a game called Minute Mayhem, which was like a top-down arcade battle Olympics, where all the nations took part because it was marginally safer than war. So they’d have champions to duel instead, like a half-comedy battle game. So Teslagrad is a bit more serious to that extent, but it’s in the same universe, there are comedic aspects to the game as well, with a comic art style.
Marte Haugsbø: So Teslagrad is a small part of the universe, there are four nations and Elektropia is just one of them. So this sets the tone and introduces the Universe and we can then expand on that. We have all these four nations all worked out, so we can build on this idea. Now we’ve shown you Teslagrad so, hey, let’s show you Angloria or let’s show you Motorland, let’s build on it.
So we have this whole Universe which is one of our strengths, I think, because a lot of Indie games will release one title then do something completely different, but we have a whole Universe that we want to tell you guys about.
NL: Are you targeting this year on all platforms, or just PC?
Marte Haugsbø: Ideally we’ll release it on all platforms at the same time. But since the release on Wii U and PS3 is out of our hands, because of quality control etc, we don’t know if they’ll be ready at the same time. But definitely this year, as long as everything goes to plan and we can get the Wii U version working properly, knowing in our hearts that there’s no horrible bugs. We cannot say for sure, because we’re really dedicated to delivering a quality product.
NL: So you’re planning to turn this into a series?
Magnus Holm: Yes. I’ll tell you a bit more about that. This is part of the Chroma series. Chroma is like Europe, but Teslagrad is the main capital of Elektropia, which is like Norway to Russia, like the technological / electrical sciences area. England is like Angloria, which is about biomechanics and the you have other areas (like France) that are the great mechanical parts of the world.
Originally we made a game called Minute Mayhem, which was like a top-down arcade battle Olympics, where all the nations took part because it was marginally safer than war. So they’d have champions to duel instead, like a half-comedy battle game. So Teslagrad is a bit more serious to that extent, but it’s in the same universe, there are comedic aspects to the game as well, with a comic art style.
Marte Haugsbø: So Teslagrad is a small part of the universe, there are four nations and Elektropia is just one of them. So this sets the tone and introduces the Universe and we can then expand on that. We have all these four nations all worked out, so we can build on this idea. Now we’ve shown you Teslagrad so, hey, let’s show you Angloria or let’s show you Motorland, let’s build on it.
So we have this whole Universe which is one of our strengths, I think, because a lot of Indie games will release one title then do something completely different, but we have a whole Universe that we want to tell you guys about.
NL: Are you targeting this year on all platforms, or just PC?
Marte Haugsbø: Ideally we’ll release it on all platforms at the same time. But since the release on Wii U and PS3 is out of our hands, because of quality control etc, we don’t know if they’ll be ready at the same time. But definitely this year, as long as everything goes to plan and we can get the Wii U version working properly, knowing in our hearts that there’s no horrible bugs. We cannot say for sure, because we’re really dedicated to delivering a quality product.
