Image & Form not done with SteamWorld games, not ruling out Wii U
Image & Form will be continuing on with the “SteamWorld” name after this week’s release of SteamWorld Dig.
According to CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson, the team is “following up in the SteamWorld series with a radically different sort of gameplay.” Sigurgeirsson hopes that the new title will be ready in the somewhat near future.
He said:
“We feel that at one point, when we were making SteamWorld Dig, we were giving away very very very much of the story behind the game. Well… basically what I told you before about the background. We want to put that out in pieces in coming games in the SteamWorld series, so that you get a better understanding of what is actually happening. I think that there is an interesting likeness to the Terminator series. Where in the first movie, you don’t really understand how does this work and why did it happen? Or how did it start? You are not told that in the first movie, it is actually in the second movie where they actually tell most of the background and I like that. We have a universe that we can expand on and we will expand on it, so that is one thing.”
“Another one is expanding on different types of games in SteamWorld. I got the question earlier today in another forum if we are looking towards Minecraft, Terraria and so on. Making a sandbox game would be thrilling, it would be very interesting to make that. Those games are fabulous things, they are beautiful creations. SteamWorld Dig is not a sandbox game, but we are not alien to the thought of making it or experimenting with it. But we are also thinking of lots of other types of gameplay.”
“…we are following up in the SteamWorld series with a radically different sort of gameplay. And it is a gameplay we can hopefully finish up in not too long, so we can have a tail on SteamWorld Dig. But it tags in pretty well, both with the personel from SteamWorld Dig and also the main idea of the robots.”
Regarding the possibility of the new game coming to a Nintendo platform, Sigurgeirsson said:
“It is up in the air, because we just started on it. But we must say that we are very happy with Nintendo overall and so we have no reason to leave the Nintendo 3DS platform. But if SteamWorld Dig becomes succesfull in the way we hope it will be, another path that can run in parallel is porting SteamWorld Dig to other consoles. It could to PlayStation, Xbox or even the Wii U.”
