Just a few days later, with the release of Mindie, game director Leslie Benzies visited live today to discuss the new third-person action-adventure game.
Mindseye is not an open world game, and Benzies said “keeping the story clean is often difficult in an open world.” However, he added that the game includes an “open world system via a build mind system.”
Benzies explained that a key component of the game for him and his collaborators is the ability to add user-generated content, and “when playing missions, if you like spots on the map, you can quickly create what you need.”
He said they purposely made it a simple system. “We want to keep this as simple as possible. So you can have half the time within a minute and a half. That will be the hands of the players.” He said the general idea of approaching Mindseye includes “pushing it towards the people who want to make the game.”
He asked how other players curate these builds to find them best, and he explained, “At launch, we curate and choose crop creams on the featured menu.” However, he added, “In the end, we want players to choose what they want. We don’t want to ultimately tell them how to make money in the game or how to play the game.”
The building tools used by players are also used by the game makers, with Benzies saying, “A lot of what you just saw was built within the tool. A lot of the atmosphere… anything we can build using the tools we do.” He also said, “We’ll use more of our next game.” At the same time, he promised “all tools that make it possible for players to use to build the games we use.”
Benzies showed that he has an epic plan for follow-up of Mind-Ay, saying, “The Story of Mind-Ay, that’s a small part of a very large story that we intend to tell over the years.” He compared the bigger world they had formulated for something like Star Wars.
The game director also said, “Multiplayer will come at the end of this year and then we can add a huge multiplayer world that will come next year.”
Back to user-generated content, Benzies said he was excited to see what happens because he thinks he’ll find “how to use tools and almost hack tools” when providing tools to the public.
