Developer Publisher Format Origin Release Evil Empire Ubisoft PC France Out now (Early Access)
Few long-running videogame protagonists seem quite as well suited to starring in a Roguelike as the Prince Of Persia. The variations of the character point to a legend told and retold, the details changing a little each time: we surely needn’t elaborate why this makes him a comfortable fit for the genre in a narrative sense. And his temporal powers – not present in Jordan Mechner’s original vision but long since established as part of the deal – handily dovetail with the live-dierepeat structure of the Roguelike.
Evil Empire, the development team set up by Motion Twin to take custody of so it could pursue other projects, clearly thought so, too. As game director tells it, at a GDC party, one member of the team got talkingand use it to make a game?’ Then, after some time, the contract to make this game ended up on our desk.” We sense she may be eliding a few key details here, but either way she says it’s been a fruitful collaboration between the two parties.
