Redout Interview – An Italian Studio’s Take on Anti-Gravity Racing

With a 100K+ owners (according to SteamSpy), Redout is maybe a many successful in a garland of anti-gravity racing games expelled recently by indie developers. Developed by Italian studio 34BigThings, a diversion usually launched on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One with a LightSpeed Edition (you can find some-more technical information on a console ports in a prior story).

We contacted Valerio Di Donato, CEO during 34BigThings, to learn some-more about a studio’s plans.

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How many developers do we now have? Do we devise to sinecure some-more in a future?

We are about 30 people in a studio right now. We grew utterly fast from 3 (the strange founders) to this array and we are finally negligence down. That doesn’t meant we are not hiring, we are *always* improving a group augmenting seniority and looking for a many gifted good people out there. we cruise we’ll supplement another integrate of units to that array in a entrance months if we find a right match.

What’s subsequent for 34BigThings? More calm for Redout or maybe a full blown sequel?

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Well, some-more calm is always good for a players and us. we cruise we have some good surprises for everybody and some-more is entrance now that we are removing closer to recover a console versions. we would adore to speak about a supplement during a moment, yet it’s unequivocally early for that.

What do we cruise of a state of a attention in Italy? There are many tiny developers appearing on a scene.

I cruise it’s finally entrance into being. Just cruise a array of professionals operative in a attention doubled during a final year. We can see that a basis of diversion growth are today a given in a industry, that competence sound “too basic”, yet for us, it’s a good achievement. There’s still a lot of difficulty between a definitions of game, product and “whole product” yet a elemental believe associated to a selling and business operations is finally swelling in a industry.

For those who haven’t attempted a diversion yet, what creates Redout mount out within a genre?

I would contend a array of engaging choices, quoting one of a fathers of diversion development, Sid Meier. First of all, we are loyal to a core: we ought to make a fastest diversion ever done and that’s what we delivered. And a village appreciated a instruction and a execution. Keeping adult what we poured into Redout other than a final 3 years of a lives, what we are and what we have turn in that time, we wanted to emanate a challenge. Redout is not an easy diversion and it screams “hardcore” from a initial time we collect adult your controller to when your eyes start to drain since of a Redout effect.

For years, this genre seemed forgotten. Now, though, we have a rebirth of sorts with Redout, Fast Racing Neo/RMX, Wipeout: Omega Collection, Formula Fusion and GRIP. Why do we cruise this happened? 

Well, we cruise it was time for a genre to come adult to a excellence again and a usually proceed that’s probable is around good games and well-marketed products.

The diversion has been accessible for a while on PC around Steam, yet it is usually concordant with Windows. Do we devise to supplement support for Mac and/or Linux?

Not right now. The Linux village is flattering clever and there’s a lot of seductiveness in Redout, yet ancillary a far-reaching height as Linux requires some critical contrast and QA that we simply can't means right now. The categorical problem for OSX are performances instead, yet we are optimising a lot for consoles now and we competence recur in a future.

We know you’re also operative to recover a diversion on a Nintendo Switch. What do we cruise of a height and are we going to support any of a singular features? Also, what kind of technical compromises did we have to make for this port?

I privately adore a Switch and what Nintendo is perplexing to achieve. For me, it is a lot some-more about a altogether instruction than a console itself, as that’s temporary. It’s a insubordinate console, yet we don’t cruise players will use it as Nintendo intended, and that’s a good thing. we adore a Switch since it will means emergent and rebellious gameplay in a genuine world, directly on a hardware. That being said, it’s a mobile console with a plain mobile GPU and that’s how developers should proceed a porting and a optimisation challenges.

Will there be cross-play functionality between any of a platforms?

Unfortunately not. Maybe Redout 2, who knows!

Thank we for your time.