I suggested that this could be trends cycling round. Minecraft is not that game, but it's like. "Someday I really want to make a game that is so procedural that when I play it I don't know what's going to happen. I asked what game he wished he worked on, but didn't, and the first thing that came to mind was Minecraft. Booth said he'd also been playing a lot of Deep Rock Galactic ("Rock and stone, brother!"), which he thinks has "hit the Left 4 Dead sweetspot" with a great story, cool environment and interesting creatures. There's Back 4 Blood, The Anacrusis, Arkane's upcoming Redfall. Right now we're having a bit of a moment for online co-op games. I think that's really valuable, regardless of the platform that's on." Ghost Ship Games' Deep Rock Galactic This is, especially in current times when it's a little bit difficult to get together in person or to travel, to be able to get together around a tabletop game like this. "Because really it comes down to your friends. It plays really well, and I think we get a lot of the same fun that we do in VR," says Booth. "I think we've got a really good first stab.
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Resolution have added new camera controls to move and look around, and the PC version has crossplay with VR as well. Booth, however, is confident that the non-VR version of Demeo won't lose much in translation. Will the mysterious Steam algorithm be any more forgiving, though? Demeo may have won several accolades in VR, but whether those will carry over to PC remains to be seen. If it's in a deck of cards, and it's only one card, it can only happen once." "So that way it's not possible to get the terrible thing happening 17 times in a row - I know it's very unlikely, but it's possible. You want to make a virtual deck of cards, shuffle it and deal it out." Here Booth mimed the actions in question with an invisible deck of cards. "You don't want to actually, behind the scenes, roll the die on individual things. "Here's a little titbit that everyone gets wrong, and Resolution got very right here," he adds. "I'm a big believer in build it quick, get into it, get your hands on it, start playing it, and then iterate and find the fun."
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His most famous AI creation, of course, is Left 4 Dead's famous Director, and for Demeo, Booth says he was mostly instructing the lead game designer on how to build an AI for this kind of game. "I'm a big believer in build it quick, get into it, get your hands on it, start playing it, and then iterate and find the fun and really hone, really polish," says Booth. The team also playtested the game for three years before launch to get the balance right, including on the AI. "We have to have a die, it needs to be a polyhedral die, you need to roll the die, it needs to bounce around and then land so everyone's watching and going 'whooooooooaaaaah- oh!' and you get that anticipation of, what's it going to be?" Send not to know for whom the die rolls, it rolls for thee. Something Booth said he was very adamant about was the die. The team decided early on, for example, that the miniatures representing the player characters and enemies would not be animated (save for a few rare circumstances). Demeo does a few things to try to capture that authentic "standing around a table" feel. There are, though, a bunch of games - VR and otherwise - that try to replicate the authentic tabletop experience. "We can have all the effects, explosive fireballs and acid sprays, and arrows actually zipping across, that you can't do - well, that's very hard to do on an actual tabletop surface." "With something like Demeo, you just turn it on and there's the whole dungeon layout, on the table in your basement, and you got your polyhedral die that you can throw, and everyone's got their miniatures they can move around, but the game handles all the details for you," he explains.
With Demeo, Booth wants to capture the fun moments of socialising that he really enjoys - playing TRPGs with friends, or game nights where you get together and play card games or board games. For Booth, the cool thing about VR is not just that you're completely in the virtual environment, but that with VR co-op you feel like you're there in person with other people. "If you look at the through line of my career, it's really been online multiplayer innovation, and I think Demeo's a prime example of that," he says.
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