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‘From the ashes’: Gaming industry layoffs give way to rising indie studios
Several years of layoffs in the gaming industry have been the cause of concern and uncertainty among many game developers, but some creators are using it as an opportunity to create games they ...
How a NASA simulation inspired Clair Obscur’s character lineup
How do you put the expedition into a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? For writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, it meant ...
Clair Obscur's director has an old YouTube channel full of masterful no-hit Devil May Cry videos because of course he does
The director of the turn-based RPG with combat that plays like an action game, Clair Obscur, is also a hardcore Devil May Cry ...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Director Reveals the First RPG He Ever Played
Expedition 33 director Guillaume Broche has revealed that the first JRPG he ever played was Final Fantasy 8. The story was ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director got on the RPG train early, playing FF8 'when my brother and I could barely read'
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 feels like a love letter to JRPGs—and that's because it pretty much is. Director Guillaume Broche ...
Smaller teams are making better games, go figure
Broche, who founded Sandfall Interactive after his tenure at Ubisoft, recently commented that getting approval to develop Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 would have taken "25 years" ...
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Sandfall Interactive: It "would have taken 25 years" to create Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with a major publisher
Surely no one has missed the fact that the French role-playing game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has become a huge success that in many ways (including production values) completely outshines what many ...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's brilliant parry system solves a classic JRPG problem: I can win any match-up on skill alone, so being under-leveled is just a state of mind ...
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Clair Obscur director says AAA studios would’ve taken 20 years to greenlight Expedition 33
During his latest interview with Pouce Cafe, Guillaume Broche, creative director and CEO of Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive, discussed the struggles of pitching an all-new IP to more ...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Director Came Up With The Game While Bored At Ubisoft
GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Boredom can be productive, apparently. At least it was for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director Guillaume Broche, who first dreamed about creating ...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director says it could never have been made at a AAA studio
Guillaume Broche, creative director and CEO of Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive, discussed the difficulty of pitching a brand-new IP to bigger companies in a YouTube interview with ...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold more than twice as fast as Metaphor: ReFantazio
As we reported just over a week ago, it only took three days for the acclaimed role-playing game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to reach the milestone of one million copies sold. But that includes all ...