Dodge Roll talks next project, Enter the Gungeon getting more content and Switch performance tweak

At PAX Aus 2018 a couple of weeks ago, Eric managed to catch up with Dave Crooks from Dodge Roll. Crooks had plenty to say about Enter the Gungeon, but also the studio’s next game.

Crooks told us that a “pseudo sequel to Gungeon” could come next “in the sense that it would be like of a similar tone and a similar art style and such”. Also, while Enter the Gungeon didn’t have multiplayer, this is a possibility for the upcoming project since the team is currently building the proper tools for it this time around.

Crooks had this to say about what’s next from Dodge Roll:

“That’s a hard question to answer without spoiling anything, but I’ll say this. It’s not gonna be Gungeon 2, though it may be a pseudo sequel to Gungeon in the sense that it would be like of a similar tone and a similar art style and such, but we are… a lot of people know that Gungeon is a sort of a quasi-3D game and we’re I think we’re really interested in pushing that to the next level while still retaining pixel aesthetic and we’re trying to figure out exactly what that means right now. I said we’re not gonna do multiplayer for Gungeon and we’re not going to. The reason we never could is because our engine is just the opposite of optimized for that and it would have taken years of rework or at least a year, so one of the things we’re taking time to do right now is build the tools… so I’m not definitely saying we’re gonna do multiplayer for the next one, but we’re thinking about it and we’re at least building the engine in a way that would support it.”

As for Enter the Gungeon, while Dodge Roll is just about ready to move on from the hugely-successful game, the studio isn’t finished just yet. Fans can look forward to “one piece of content” that is both small and free, and also “something people have been asking for for a long time”. Just know that it isn’t online multiplayer.

Finally, specifically regarding the Switch version of Enter the Gungeon, we’re hearing that one of the developers at Dodge Roll is pursuing a performance tweak and has “some ideas on how we can make it better”.

Stay tuned for our full interview with Dodge Roll.