Joseph Rogers, Creative Director at Silent Games, tells Vince Pavey all about the work that went into their recently released indie RPG
How do you describe Empyreal to other people when you tell them about it? I like to describe it as “an Action RPG about Transcendental Revelation”. I think that hints just enough to the significance of the narrative to the game and what mysteries might be waiting to be uncovered. Fundamentally, the game is about discovery. There
Joseph Rogers, Creative Director at Silent Games
are a vast number of features, systems, mechanics and hidden details. It is a “true RPG”. And the story is filled with references to history, philosophy, theology and literature, some which might be familiar, but many that are esoteric.
You’ve been around as a studio since 2018. Has it been all Empyreal since then, or have you been up to other things? The first concept we developed was in the same universe as Empyreal but with a different time period, setting, and aesthetic.
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It was this project which attracted initial investment
into our studio which allowed us to hire the team to develop a full game. Once we had gone from a start-up of two or
three people to a development team of 12, though, I did revisit that initial concept, and that’s when it transformed into what would eventually become Empyreal. There are many elements from the first concept that survived, however. For example, the
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