So it is, too, over at Neon Giant, the Swedish indie studio responsible for this behemothic creation. Much of the world may be on pause right now, but as we sit down to speak with slightly frazzled co-founders Tor Frick and Arcade Berg, it’s clear the studio is currently working overtime. All 11 people at Neon Giant are pouring everything into finalising the details of the biggest announcement of their careers: their debut game will be an Xbox Series X launch title, leading the charge for the next generation of videogames. The length of their to-do list is, for now, helping them to not think too hard about just how far they’ve come. Here we are to force them to look: to ask, in no uncertain terms, how they got here. “Yeah,” Frick says, shaking his head in disbelief as he repeats our question to himself: “How did that happen?”
This story is from the July 2020 edition of Edge.
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