Stiksma wouldn’t go as far as saying whether Moss: Book II will launch in 2021-though the announce timing seems about right for a holiday release-but he did confirm that it will launch first on PSVR. It isn’t clear yet if the player will get to swap weapons freely or if each section of the game will be built around one specific weapon.
In the Moss: Book IItrailer we can see Quill discover a large hammer, and see the player touch her sword to power it up for a dash attack that crosses platforms. Image courtesy PolyarcĪnd then there’s what Stiksma called “progression,” which takes the form of new weapons that Quill will find throughout her journey, opening the door to new attacks and abilities. Stiksma gave an example of one new interactions in Book II, in which players will connect magical vine bridges from point to point to help Quill navigate the environment.
The game requires that players actually reach out and interact with certain parts of the world to open new pathways and help Quill in other ways. Players familiar with the original game will recall that while they control the main character, Quill, from a third-person view, they themselves are present in the world as well. While the core gameplay remains in tact, the game will add some new interactions and a sort of progression that will deepen the game’s mechanics. Image courtesy Polyarcīut Moss: Book II won’t just be more of the same, Stiksma said. Much of the creative overhead-like art direction, level design, character design, tooling and much more-has already been ‘figured out’, which makes it quicker to build on top of that work compared to creating an entirely new world, characters, and gameplay. Polyarc has since grown to 32 people, and this time around there’s 15 people working full-time directly on Moss: Book II, he said.īeyond having more hands on deck, Stiksma also explained that there’s significant gains in efficiency when working on a sequel compared to a brand new game. The original game, Stiksma said, was developed when the studio was just 15 people total a handful of them were only part-time on Moss, and some weren’t working directly on the game (like HR, finance, and marketing). There’s a few reasons why: for one, the game has a larger dedicated team. Report: Apple Racing to Build Software & Services for Upcoming Mixed Reality HeadsetĪnd while Stiksma says that the gameplay will be more of an evolution than a revolution, he confirmed that the game has been in development for two years already, and expects it will have a suitably larger scope than the original.
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