After Yager were unceremoniously dumped from development duties on Dead Island 2 a trio developers found themselves without a job and decided to form a new indie studio, inbetweengames. Their first title will be All Walls Must Fall, a tech-noir spy thriller set in Berlin 2089 where the Cold War never ended. It’s a tactical game which mixes time travel, combat, and social stealth, although what ‘social stealth’ entails is a unclear, maybe you have infiltrate a middle class dinner party and steal a quinoa salad, even though your father was a miner and your mother entertained sailors at the dockside.
One aspect of the game which appeals to me is the representation of the Berlin nightlife. “We’ve spent some effort on the club simulation, with crowds of clubbers who are there to party and have a good time, and you can join them,” explains Isaac Ashdown, programming and accounts boffin at inbetweengames. “The club also has it’s own rules that are what you might expect – you have to get in past the bouncers somehow, you have to find your way around, and perhaps you can get information just by being persuasive enough. There’s still more work to do in this area – high on our list of rooms that still need adding are a coatcheck and bathroom.”
The game heads to Kickstarter today with the hopes of raising just €15,000, and if funded the team aim to get it in to Steam Early Access by the end of the year. “Consoles we have more experience with, but that means we know how much extra development time they can eat up, so right now we’re not promising anything. It’s something we’d love to be able to do though!” adds Isaac.
Source: Press release / Kickstarter
