Dragon Age writer David Gaider's next game is a light-hearted heist RPG, if he can get the funding for it

What much could you inquire for, publishers!

Since being founded backmost successful 2017, Summerfall Studios person lone managed to enactment retired a mates of games, 2023's Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, and past year's Malys, a devil exercising deckbuilder. Unfortunately for the studio, neither crippled did amazingly, but according to co-founder and Dragon Age writer David Gaider, the workplace is hoping to enactment connected thing caller still: a heist RPG.

"You play a unit of rogues successful an airship that spell astir performing heists," Gaider tells PC Gamer successful an interview. "And this leads you into a crippled that becomes, maybe, your much emblematic RPG." With this adjacent game, Gaider says he's hoping to bash thing that's "not full-on comedy, but thing that could marque maine smile. It seems similar astatine this constituent successful the world, we could usage thing similar that. I cognize I could. So that's what we've been moving on, and it's been getting a large reception."

This is wherever the but comes in, the but that's shaped similar a collapsing games industry. "It's been astir 3 years it's been going done this weird contraction. The astir evident effect of that is each the layoffs, but that's conscionable truly a grounds of each the studios clenching astatine once," Gaider explains. On the backing side, cipher wants to really perpetrate to a task unless they deliberation it's a definite thing, and that boils down to existing IPs, sequels, that benignant of thing. New projects, astir nothing's getting funded."

On the positive side, according to Gaider the effect has been positive, but truthful acold nary publishing food person been biting. They adjacent asked 1 steadfast whether they're fundamentally waiting for the crippled to beryllium finished. "And they embarrassedly were like, 'Well, successful truthful galore words, I guess, yeah,'" Gaider said. "There's a batch of smaller studios similar ours that are truly struggling astatine this point."

Through it all, Gaider doesn't look to chopped up astatine the thought of not being capable to marque this mysterious heist RPG. "Not everything lasts forever. Seven oregon 8 years is simply a bully agelong run, and it's been fantastic." But connected the constituent of what would hypothetically travel after, helium sounds little confident. "As to what I would bash afterwards, if that was the extremity of Summerfall, I don't know. Is it adjacent imaginable to find a occupation successful the manufacture these days? Would I beryllium competing with radical of my ain seniority, and begging for a job?" Fingers crossed it doesn't travel to that, due to the fact that personally I'd rather similar a silly heist RPG. Hop to it publishers!