The New Dawn to horror HellScape set in your own hometown of the creators

When you go through the new Dawn-Folk Polish City, where the new thriller science science fiction band Bloober, Cronos: The New DawnIt happens – you will meet with restless feeling that you are not alone. NPCs are not much and far in this game, but during the exploration of new Dawn apartment blocks, hospital, abbey and Steelworks, you will start to feel that everyone has left a while before you get there. Christmas trees shine while waiting for the upcoming holidays, notes and schedules of the work desk work, and graffiti of dissatisfied citizens means walls. Despite the fact that it is mostly empty, except for monsters, New Dawn seems undeniably alive.

As it turns out, this is because many programmers who worked on the game (which is now on PC Console and Windows), grew up in the Polish city of Nowa Huta, the name, which translates into “New Steelworks” and the inspiration for New Dawn. Grzegorz, as he grew up there, and during the last interview with Polygon explained how his hometown became the perfect background for the first original IP of the Horror Bloober Team from The Medium, which was also imprisoned in Poland.

“In the Blouber team at some point we became experts consisting in putting Poland into everything,” as Polygon said, laughing.

As for how the game was aimed at clothes in space -time during the traveler at a time that stomp around the remains of the devastated Polish city on Christmas Eve in 1981, as he says that the strange -looking traveler’s suit was in the first place.

“It began with the vision of this strange, fitted astronaut, even a diver, in an environment that is absolutely awkward because it is in space,” he explained.

According to the Blobyer team, he thought for the first time a village place to play before he finally settled in the city from communist times supported by the production of steel, which, as she mentioned, was better for the aesthetics “Futurism cassettes” Cronos.

“The idea of ​​mixing a suit with the aesthetics of futurism appeared very early and we thought that one of the ingredients in this recipe should be generally blochoe”, as he said, referring to large, boxing apartment blocks that appeared in the entire Soviet Union during the communist era. “To see a matching astronaut in a block of flats that seemed strange, and we not only like strange, but strange, it is good for inspiration, and we like our games in an aesthetic way. It really drives the magazine. So we thought that if we put our characters in real places, why not use the huta news?”

As he said he was “stunned” when he realized that there was a chance that the game would be set in a fictitious version of his hometown, telling Polygon that when the surroundings of Nowa Huta was on the table, he pressed this idea hard.

“I wanted to create this game because the new steelworks is a very interesting place, but it is also a place with a very dark history.”

As it says, just like Cronos Nowa Huta herself “began as a dream.” Poland was devastated after World War II, and Nowa Huta was a place of hope. Over 40,000 inhabitants of the city – including both grandparents and grandmothers similar – were looking for employment in Steelworks, which he describes as “the heart of the city”.

New Dawn’s Steel Mill is a heart Cronos Also is the first place where players will start to understand that city residents are becoming restless. Many residents of Nowy Dawn, especially steel workers, are skeptical about the pandemic, which left them quarantine in the city, although it is really dangerous to go outside. Signs of social unrest show in letters, graffiti and the bodies of the dead. Like New Dawn, as Nowa Huta had a gloomy side in the 1980s.

“At some moments it was like Gotham City,” he said.

Push CronosPlayers have much less tools at their disposal than the Dark Knight. ADVERTISEMENT Games is not ashamed to inform players that the game is difficult, exactly describing its survival elements as “brutal”. Just as Polygon said, finding out how difficult the game will be, his first reaction was fear.

“I thought,” Damn, how difficult? “And they said,” I don’t know, you play Dark Souls? – As I remembered. “I had a heart attack. I thought,” Oh, no. ” But when I finally played some of the compilations, I discovered it Cronos It is not about continuous rolling on the floor to create the best impressions of swords in the history of sword fights. It’s more about preparation. The fight begins before the fight. So if you are prepared, if you know your environment, if you have everything made and overloaded pistols, every fight you have later, it’s more a mystery [than a combat encounter]But this is the mystery of the action. “

As he also has advice for players who are intriguing CronosBut he is too afraid of intense fight to immerse: playing roles. The writer says that when he fought the difficult fight of Cronos, he played a role as a “depressed mandalorian without his neck”, referring to a strange, flange of a traveler’s collar.

“My advice, if you think the challenge is too big for you, well, playing roles,” he said. “Because travelers are amazing and they would not hesitate. So if playing a role, everything is fine. It’s fun. I’m Polish mandalor and it works.”

As for the Christmas game, as Polygon said, that he was partly chosen because he caused pain related to the desire to accumulate with loved ones at a time when meetings are not allowed because of quarantine, and partly “because we always wanted to write a Christmas story”.

The plot of the game quarantine was not only inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic. It was partly based on actual events that took place in Poland in the early 1980s. In 1981, martial law was imposed, preventing people from collecting police hours and other restrictions.

“People began to meet, began the Solidarity Movement, and the government panicked” – as he explained. “So they closed everyone in their homes. There were hours that you can’t leave, just to keep students and employees at home and prevent them from gathering.”

As describing this era “the darkest time of the Polish communist period”, but he said that she had created an engaging scenery Cronos: The New Dawn.

“We wanted to use it [era] And ask: “What if martial law was not imposed because people met to fight the regime, [what if] This was imposed because there was a real danger? – As developed. “We wanted to use this very dark period to show real sparks of kindness between people.”

It seems that in the real world these sparks have come on. Despite his previous comparison with Gotham City, as he said that, unlike the fictitious city of New Dawn, his own hometown is doing much better now.

“Now Nowa Huta is flourishing and even doing games!” As he said, smiling. “So it’s cool.”