Game Maker's Notebook
Game Maker's Notebook
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
Returnal with Harry Krueger
1 hour 7 minutes Posted Jul 6, 2021 at 4:30 am.
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Ted Price chats with Housemarque's Harry Krueger about their recently released game Returnal. Together they discuss how Housemarque embraced an organic creative process, what effect their gameplay design decisions had on the procedural construction and combat, keeping the arcade spirit alive, and about the challenge of randomness.  Harry Krueger is a Game Director at Housemarque best known for his work on Returnal and Nex Machina. At Housemarque, he has also been a part of the development of titles such as Resogun, Alienation, Outland, and Dead Nation.