We took an overnight road trip with the developers of Pacific Drive in the real station wagon that inspired the supernatural driving game,
I’m standing outside the Olive 8 Hotel in downtown Seattle. The last few minutes of daylight are fading as the attendees of PAX West spill out of the convention center and onto the streets. An old LeSabre station wagon pulls up beside me; its wood panel looks like it came fresh from the Griswold family’s latest vacation. The car is headed out of town on a drive toward the forests of western Washington … and it’s there to take me with it.
The open road We are on Interstate 90 in a 1989 Buick LeSabre, heading east towards the forest-covered Cascade mountains. Alex Dracott, Studio Head and Creative Director at Ironwood Studios is behind the wheel as Seattle shrinks in the rearview mirror. Larry Vargas, lead Environment Artist, and Game Designer Richard Weschler are sitting in the back.
I shift the car into drive and instinctively look both ways as I pull to the edge of the parking area. There’s no one. I press the gas and hit the open road. “When we were done we went into town and we were turning heads left and right. We ended up getting stopped by the police. They say we were drawing too much attention and [they] ended up escorting us out of town.”
I stare at the figures for a while, but they are inert. Cautiously I turn to focus on collecting the Anchor, though I keep glancing behind me. I don’t think they are getting closer, but are there more of them than before? I can’t tell, and that makes me uncomfortable. I reach the Anchor and pull it from its mechanical docking station. I immediately turn and run for the car, giving a wide berth to the cluster of mannequins.
I grab the anchor and start back towards the car when I see the source of the buzz: I’m parked right next to a downed electrical tower and its arcing energy is draining the vehicle’s health. Panicked, I jump back in the driver’s seat, but I rush turning the key, and fail to start the car several times. Clearly, I would never survive in a horror movie. By the time I move it far enough away, the car is in rough shape, I’ll need to be extremely careful if it’s going to survive the rest of my run.
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