Why Stasis: Bone Totem will haunt you in your dreams - horror design with Nic & Chris Bischoff

Game Engineering Podcast

This time I'm joined by two brothers, Nic and Chris who 10 years ago formed a studio Brotherhood Games , and since developed Stasis, Cayne, Beautiful Desolation and most recently Stasis: Bone Totem! They walk me through their career, and lessons learned after so many years in the industry (the average for this industry is below 10yrs :D ) and then we discuss in detail their latest masterpiece Stasis: Bone Totem. Brotherhood games website: https://thebrotherhoodgames.com/ [[ SIGN UP FOR THEIR NEWSLETTER! ]] Steam: Stasis: Bone Totem: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426010/STASIS_BONE_TOTEM/ Beautiful Desolation: https://store.steampowered.com/app/912570/BEAUTIFUL_DESOLATION/?curator_clanid=36528804 Cayne: https://store.steampowered.com/app/532840/CAYNE/?curator_clanid=36528804 Stasis: https://store.steampowered.com/app/380150/STASIS/?curator_clanid=36528804 Game Engineering Podcast Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7tExkDJcI6vvmpCguX8Ygd Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/game-engineering-podcast/id1683109481 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71w RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd7643a4/podcast/rss 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:34 Launching studio & making Stasis 0:21:58 making Cayne & reusing software 0:35:31 making Beautiful Desolation 0:45:09 Stasis: Bone Totem overview & beginnings 0:58:51 Horror & Gore of Stasis: Bone Totem 1:08:49 Character design & super-toy bear Moses 1:20:15 Creating Narrative & Story 1:32:13 Puzzles, Navigation & Steam reviews 1:56:59 Localization & how to do it properly 1:58:21 Phenomenal writing by Jack Barton Mitchell 2:09:28 Marketing horror games 2:28:10 Piracy & message to pirates 2:37:35 Goodbyes