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Which elements of the Ninth World do you find the most interesting? : As a designer for the upcoming Torment game, you deal with the Numenera system on a daily basis. The companions will also have really neat powers too.

The Focus is what really defines you.Ĭolin McComb: Yeah, if you bear a halo of fire maybe you can set your sword on fire or cast fire “spells” (or “manipulating the ever-present nanites in the air” more accurately). Numenera is built on a system where when it comes to skills or building weapons anyone can try to do anything. Thomas Beekers: And that’s where the really interesting stuff comes in. The final bit is Focus, which is the “massive power” that you get like “rides the lightning” or “bears a halo of fire”. “Line producer” is his character class, which in the game is out of the three main classes. For example Thomas here would be “a cunning line producer who dodges questions and argues intensively”.Ĭolin McComb: The “cunning” part is his descriptor, which provides him bonuses to certain skills and bumps up bits of his stat pool. The way you build a character is with sentences. GameWatcher: What sort of skills will they have? Are there still stereotypical classes like Rogue, Wizard etc?Ĭolin McComb: Numenera has essentially three character classes, which are Nano (wizard), Jack (jack of all trades) and Glaive (warrior).

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We’re discussing the pacing of these guys so that if a new companion comes in after you’ve got a full party that new companion better be awesome. GameWatcher: How big a part will companions be in the game?Ĭolin McComb: You can have three companions with you at a time. GameWatcher: What made you want to go with a more traditional 2D background rather than the 3D environments of Wasteland 2?Ĭolin McComb: Part of it was that we’ve been licensing a lot of the background technology from Obsidian with Pillars of Eternity, but we wanted to go along with them and be an Infinity Engine-style game with a very painterly art style. Thomas Beekers: You can pick your fights but not with just anyone, unlike Wasteland 2.Ĭolin McComb: A lot of these things start with dialogue though, so if you insult somebody or crossed a line with them they might say “that’s it” and attack! You can more carefully plan and do that in Turn-Based combat.Ĭolin McComb: We get to build each one of those up individually with those super-cool elements. We could have done better Real-Time, but Turn-Based both won the community poll (although it was pretty tight) but it was our preference because it fit within our Crisis system, which is our expansion of combat where we add elements of dialogue, puzzles, and other challenges to make a broader encounter. It was chaotic and weird, and it had good elements but it was not a good system at its core. If you identify what people actually really loved about Planescape: Torment no one will say “combat”. Thomas Beekers: That also hooks into the combat question. GameWatcher: They certainly are deeper questions than people usually experience from videogames. How much does one life matter against all that?

I’ve been reading a lot of Bernard Cornwall’s Saxon Tales which are essentially books about the wars that made England, and just looking down on the English fields from the plane on the way over here from Detroit I thought “so many people have died for this”. GameWatcher: This is a common question, but with the combat change some people wondered how this is still a spiritual sequel to Planescape: Torment?Ĭolin McComb: Well it’s a “successor” rather than a sequel, because we don’t have the rights to use the Planescape setting and we don’t want the pants sued off us! But we want people to have the same sort of intellectually engaging game that helps explore questions in their own minds, which is what resonated for a lot of people with Planescape: Torment with its question of “what can change the nature of a man?” Hopefully we can do the same thing with “what does one life matter?”. GameWatcher: How involved are you personally in the day-to-day of Torment?Ĭolin McComb: Heavily! I’m generally putting in 10-12 hour days.

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So with that in mind, Torment: Tides of Numenera will be coming to PC in 2016. InXile are targeting late 2015 for Torment: Tides of Numenera, although Colin reminded me to emphasize the word “targeting”, adding “you know how development works”. Two TToN interviews have appeared on the Internet recently.