Karla Zimonja has labored on many video video games, together with the critically acclaimed Tacoma. On this interview with Recreation Developer, Zimonia explores science fiction, world-building, and sport design. Right here’s extra from Recreation Developer:
I’m curious concerning the different media that you simply’ve loved that had an impact on the sport. What movies or novels had a huge impact in your designs for Tacoma?
Who can say? Oh my god, a lot. Solaris, particularly the Tarkovsky house station. I took loads of screenshots of that for reference. I don’t know the way a lot truly actually made it in, however it certain was there for reference. I learn Alastair Reynolds’ Blue Remembered Earth particularly for the house elevator and issues which may occur in a world with an area elevator. That is the kind of Neal Stephenson-like “there’s actual data in these science fiction books.” (laughs) That used to occur to me embarrassingly typically, the place I might get loads of precise actual data from science fiction books and simply not have any additional context for it. It’s not essentially the most flattering. However yeah, it positively helped. I’m a giant Phillip Ok. Dick booster, and so truthfully a certain quantity of the oppressive capitalistic techniques most likely had some roots there.
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