Denis Dyack: Interactive Streaming Is Far More Provocative

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Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Eternal Darkness, Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, Too Human – Dyack worked on these games, and now, he believes we should look beyond the next-gen consoles (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X).

WCCFTech interviewed Dyack, who works on his next game, Deadhaus Sonata, which will be a free-to-play online co-op action-RPG.

„I think the technology is cool. However, just to be clear, we tend to focus on things that aren’t necessarily platform-driven. If you look at the cloud first, what that means is the hardware is less important, how you deliver your stuff is more important. I think next-gen is going to be awesome, it’s going to allow us to do some fantastic technology. Once you’re playing on that particular console, I think the technological leaps are truly impressive for sure. However, focusing on the cloud and allowing people to play cross-platform, allowing the game to be free to play, making sure we maintain ethical models and that we can tell stories in a persistent universe for Deadhaus Sonata, that’s all stuff that is beyond the specific console itself, and more up towards the technologies that we’re looking at. The same, of course, with the interactive streaming tech powered by Genvid, which works on all consoles now.

That’s where we think the future is. There’s no gateway to what we’re doing here. Anyone who can stream can also interact. And I think that’s a huge future, we don’t know what it means to be able to play a game that you don’t even have just by connecting to a stream. These are all new things that we’re going to start to be able to explore, I think they’re as exciting as all the new graphics and all the technologies coming out – I think these are much more provocative opportunities that gamers should be very excited about,” Dyack said.

Deadhaus Sonata is planned to launch later this year in Steam Early Access, and Dyack doesn’t rule out a simultaneous console release either. Until then, have a look at his GDC presentation with a somewhat unusual background, featuring Genvid. Then again, due to the coronavirus, the unusual is the usual nowadays.

Source: WCCFTech

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