The end of the world is coming home.
Here's how Australian Broken Roads is: instead of magic potions, you drink beer. Game director Craig Ritchie casually mentions this when listing consumables, alongside bandages and first aid kits."You can't get magic potions in our game so we have multiple sources of beer," he says."The beers have different abilities."
That friend was Jethro Naude, who became co-founder of Drop Bear Bytes with Ritchie, and Broken Roads became their first game. But not without changes along the way. Within a month they realised it made sense for an Australian studio to set its Mad Max-esque game in Australia, and they wanted it to be about more than just combat. They wanted to deepen the characters, expand the story, make it more like the game they both consider their favourite: Baldur's Gate 2.
"It's interesting," says Taylor-Giles,"because my husband grew up in Victoria and I grew up in Queensland. I'll turn to him and I'll say, 'Have you ever heard this phrase?' He's like, 'No, what does it mean?' Then I have to think and go, 'I don't actually know.' Then it's this whole etymological journey to figure out." She found a source for accurate dialogue equally close to home: older relatives.
Another location visited was Wave Rock—a hill naturally formed into the shape of a breaking wave the team compares to Erana's Peace, the peaceful haven in Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero. Sunderland's quite pleased he captured authentic audio to accompany it."When you're in Wave Rock [in the game] you're hearing Wave Rock exactly where you are," he says."Not just Western Australia, but exactly where you're standing.
"I want players to feel like they're playing in concept art," Ritchie says."I've often thought concept art looked better than what actually made it in the game. We started off with the same art team that did the Shadowrun Returns series of RPGs. They were working with the art director to get the style down, however that was all 2D, hand-drawn sprites for 3D characters walking around on flat ground.
I'm pleased to hear the team reference Sierra's classic adventure RPGs in the Quest for Glory series too."Quest for Glory was a direct influence on this game as well," Ritchie says,"right down to the design of one of the guilds in the major town. We copied some of the stuff from the Adventurers Guild in the original Quest for Glory, 100%. That game, I played so much of that. I just loved the freedom, and I loved the RPG combined with the adventure game.
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