WEBVTT -- English 00:00:00.230 --> 00:00:01.850 (mechanical hissing) 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:05.900 (dramatic music) 00:00:38.116 --> 00:00:41.701 (peaceful music) 00:00:42.072 --> 00:00:46.491 - Sunless Skies is a game of exploration and survival 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:50.368 set in a sort of Victorian nightmare vision of outer space. 00:00:51.365 --> 00:00:54.137 If you take the can-do opportunism of the Victorians 00:00:54.137 --> 00:00:57.216 without having to bother with inconveniences like gravity, 00:00:57.216 --> 00:00:58.966 then I think they would be terrifying. 00:00:58.966 --> 00:01:01.816 I think they would create an incredible empire. 00:01:03.868 --> 00:01:05.816 - Writing Sunless Skies has been very exciting. 00:01:05.816 --> 00:01:07.713 One of the big questions of the games is, 00:01:07.713 --> 00:01:10.953 when you're out there, in the dark, who are you? 00:01:11.453 --> 00:01:13.048 Are you willing to do something awful 00:01:13.048 --> 00:01:14.685 if it gives you great power, 00:01:14.685 --> 00:01:16.638 or will you pass up opportunity 00:01:16.638 --> 00:01:19.465 in order to maintain the manners and the customs 00:01:19.465 --> 00:01:21.555 that made you who you are? 00:01:22.102 --> 00:01:23.712 - We've always been good at narrative, 00:01:23.712 --> 00:01:25.737 and it's something we've been confident and strong with, 00:01:25.745 --> 00:01:27.314 and we've learned from our previous games 00:01:27.314 --> 00:01:28.875 and we've just pushed the gameplay 00:01:28.875 --> 00:01:32.674 and make it something that can match our storytelling. 00:01:32.674 --> 00:01:35.944 - This isn't a void of emptiness that's dominated by 00:01:35.944 --> 00:01:37.814 cold physics and mathematics. 00:01:37.814 --> 00:01:40.795 This is a busy, fecund environment that's full of life, 00:01:40.795 --> 00:01:43.935 full of danger, and it's an environment that fights back 00:01:43.935 --> 00:01:45.882 when you try and conquer it. 00:01:46.661 --> 00:01:48.769 - We're taking what we did well in Sunless Sea 00:01:48.769 --> 00:01:50.790 and trying to make it better in Sunless Skies. 00:01:50.790 --> 00:01:53.140 We're also trying to remove areas of frustration 00:01:53.140 --> 00:01:54.739 in the original game. 00:01:54.739 --> 00:01:57.170 So in Sunless Sea, you die a lot. 00:01:57.170 --> 00:02:00.022 That's part of the fun, and that's great, 00:02:00.022 --> 00:02:02.120 but the downside of that is you often find yourself 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:04.478 repeating early game content quite a lot. 00:02:04.478 --> 00:02:06.489 So Sunless Skies is trying to think about 00:02:06.489 --> 00:02:08.788 how we can keep up the levels of risk, 00:02:08.788 --> 00:02:09.729 but you don't find yourself 00:02:09.729 --> 00:02:10.724 trawling through the same content 00:02:10.724 --> 00:02:12.681 over and over again. 00:02:14.191 --> 00:02:14.871 - When you die, 00:02:14.871 --> 00:02:17.531 you don't only inherit the worldly possessions 00:02:17.545 --> 00:02:20.955 of your previous captain when you start a new one. 00:02:20.955 --> 00:02:22.655 The choices that they've made 00:02:22.655 --> 00:02:24.325 and the impact they've had on their world 00:02:24.325 --> 00:02:26.375 persists after their death. 00:02:26.375 --> 00:02:29.425 You're going to be continuing their legacy 00:02:29.425 --> 00:02:33.846 and trying to fix the mistakes that they made. 00:02:36.096 --> 00:02:38.560 - Part of the reason that a Kickstarter is so important for us 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:41.235 is that we get to speak to you very early on. 00:02:41.813 --> 00:02:42.864 We want to have your input, 00:02:42.864 --> 00:02:44.752 so we can make the game that you want to make 00:02:44.752 --> 00:02:48.290 as much as the game that we want to make. 00:02:48.290 --> 00:02:50.200 - Part of the success that we found with Sunless Sea 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:52.091 was because we did a Kickstarter, 00:02:52.091 --> 00:02:54.700 and the experience of developing using Kickstarter 00:02:54.700 --> 00:02:57.728 and open development in Early Access on Steam 00:02:57.728 --> 00:02:58.980 was amazing. 00:02:58.980 --> 00:03:01.420 We really enjoyed working with the community on the game 00:03:01.420 --> 00:03:04.491 and it became essential to how we make games. 00:03:04.491 --> 00:03:07.262 Our backers are so important to us, 00:03:07.262 --> 00:03:10.376 and if you are only able to back to a dollar, 00:03:10.376 --> 00:03:12.320 we appreciate it so much. 00:03:12.320 --> 00:03:15.319 All we want is your input and your faith 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:16.977 at this time to prove to us 00:03:16.977 --> 00:03:18.639 that we have come up with the right idea 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:20.322 in this game, Sunless Skies. 00:03:22.346 --> 00:03:23.336 - If this Kickstarter succeeds, 00:03:23.336 --> 00:03:25.346 this is an incredible opportunity for us 00:03:25.346 --> 00:03:27.759 to explore a horizon of the Fallen London universe 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:29.759 that we've only ever been able to hint at, 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:31.057 and now players are going to be able 00:03:31.057 --> 00:03:32.626 to go there for themselves 00:03:32.626 --> 00:03:36.633 and explore new mysteries, new stories, new places, 00:03:36.633 --> 00:03:39.890 that we've never been able to touch on before.