Christian Donlan is a features editor for Eurogamer. He is the author of The Unmapped Mind, published as The Inward Empire in the US.
Earlier this year I spoke to Tomas Sala, the developer of The Falconeer and his new game, Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles. I was particularly eager to chat while development on Bulwark was wrapping up, since, as a pretty-much solo developer, Sala's process has always seemed so explorative.
And then you get to the point where everything's run by - I said fear, but it might just be vulnerability or anxiety. You get to the point where you have to bring this thing to the world and people are going to have an opinion about it. So then you get to the phase where you can no longer be free mentally, because you're concerned about what people are going to think and how it's going to work and if it's sufficient.
Sometimes that means killing something. I think that's the"kill your darlings" phase a little bit, where you're just weeding anything out and cleaning it up. It's much more intellectual, and you become harder and more grounded in your choices. And business-like. I think that's just the phases. I know people that can intermingle that stuff. But I cannot.It does. I think for The Falconeer, I was stuck too much in the first phase, and not enough in the second phase.
It doesn't always work though, because when the fear creeps, it's also the fear of: I'm running out of money. And 2023 was brutal for indie games. I don't think that gets talked about enough. But you see a lot of these high quality indies that got a little funding from the free money period. And they were exploring boundaries. But people had freedom and then the money doesn't come in and now it's all going to be taken away.
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