“When you don’t have dialogue, it’s really quite difficult to find the sort of stories you can tell,” he said.
LAST STOP GAME FREE
Holland seemed happy to move on and be free from those prior confines. Boundaries had to be set and going without dialogue seemed like the way to go, especially as working with voice actors would add many more complications. It was originally just Burroughs, Lyndon Holland, and Terry Kenny, the three studio co-founders. Virginia was its first game and it wasn’t a big studio. That timidness comes from the studio’s relative inexperience. We were timid about it in Virginia, which is why we put that limit on ourselves and thought we would come back to it another day.” The first stop “Dialogue was an immediate thing that we were really excited about doing. “I don’t think Virginia is lacking - I think it is coherent within those restraints - but off the back of that, I think we were very keen to do something where there were fewer restraints,” he continued. “During the course of making Virginia, it was very apparent that there are real limitations if you set out to make a first-person game with no dialogue in terms of the kind of story you can tell and the nuance you can get across in the characterization and character performances,” said Jonathan Burroughs, creative co-director on Last Stop. It could be viewed as a loss of a certain signature flair to some, but this change allowed Variable State to explore ideas they wanted to without as many stipulations. Those are common elements for other games, but radical for Variable State. Last Stop has characters that speak to each other with words.
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