Crowded Followed developed by Derry man Shane Ferry.
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00:00You've got to take this, please, don't let it take the case, this thing, it may take
00:13the form of someone else, I'm sorry, you need to get out of here, now!
00:30Right, so, let's start off by a sample, can you introduce yourself, please?
00:55My name is Shane Ferry, I'm the Creative Director and Lead Programmer of Night Dial.
00:59And can you tell me about your latest release, Crowded Followed?
01:05So, I just recently released a horror game called Crowded Followed, it's kind of been
01:11inspired by one of my favourite films, It Follows, and the whole vibe of the game is,
01:17you know, you're being chased by this entity that nobody else can see, but aye, there's
01:22a lot of, kind of, freaky atmosphere along with it, you know.
01:27How does making a horror game different from making someone else's, is it more challenging
01:33or do you think it gives more creative freedom?
01:37Do you know, I've worked on other games in general, up in Belfast, but I think it's different
01:46when it's like a game that you're passionate about, like I've wanted to make horror games
01:49for ages, so, you know, I'd do it in the spare time and it never really felt like work,
01:55do you know what I mean?
01:56It was always like a wee hobby and it's definitely a lot more challenging, like I worked on strategy
02:04games before and, you know, strategy games are very system-savvy and require a lot of
02:10math and programming and stuff, but with horror games it's a lot about ambience and atmosphere
02:15and stuff, so audio is like half of horror games, you know, it's like, if you play a
02:20horror game without any audio it's not scary at all, you know what I mean?
02:23So having the deep dive into that side of the development, which I hadn't really done
02:28before, it was a challenge, but I feel like we did a good job with it, to be honest.
02:33Are you proud of what you're working on?
02:35Sorry, Janice.
02:36I'm proud of it, I really am proud of it, to be honest.
02:46It took about 14 months to develop and at the moment we have like 51 reviews on Steam
02:52and they're all positive, which is kind of insane, and it's all I wanted, honestly, like
02:56I don't really care how much it sells, I just wanted it to be like, just have overall good
03:05reviews on Steam.
03:06Well this is the thing, I feel like if it's got good reviews it will sell it over time,
03:14and it is a horror game, so it's got that kind of Christmas number one vibe to it, where
03:21every Halloween it'll come back, you know what I mean, and probably get a couple more
03:24sales.
03:25But again, it's not about the sales, it's just I wanted to make something good and that
03:28would scare people, and then seeing people's reactions to like, them shitting themselves
03:32when they're playing it, it's what it's all about, you know what I mean?
03:35What's that like, seeing someone?
03:36I just want it, like I've always been like that, where I love seeing people having fun
03:40with something I've created, and it's probably the same with musicians and stuff too, when
03:43you hear them, or when they show a single, a publisher or whatever, and you see that
03:48reaction, that's what it's all about.
03:53The game is connected to Derry, you've featured a number of Derry locations on it, can you
03:57tell me about it and what locations there are?
04:02So the game is short, it's like an hour long, and there's three different levels.
04:07On the last level you're in this city, and there's riots happening and shit, and there's
04:12people running around and it's a bit chaotic, so again, the purpose of that was to make
04:16the player feel claustrophobic and kind of scared, and it's not just the entity that's
04:20scary, it's like the environment itself is kind of a scary place to be.
04:23So in that city level, I was thinking of like, I need shops for the player to run through,
04:29and I was like, I may as well use shops from the city I'm from, you know what I mean?
04:33So I contacted Guapo storefront, very clever, Padders, all of them, and asked would you
04:41mind, even just the storefront being in the game, and of course there's some stores like
04:49Bust Off Stores, which I thought was a funny one to get in, but they don't have their logo
04:52handy, so I had to go in and get a picture and photoshop it and all that crap.
04:57No, it was really cool, and I feel like everyone here appreciates it, you know, they have Guapo
05:01in a game, it's kind of funny, you know what I mean, people here appreciate it.
05:05But I needed storefronts, and I was like, I may as well lean on shops from the city
05:10I'm from, do you know what I mean?
05:12That's important to you, how do you feel about that kind of direct connection in the game?
05:17Big time, I do think, for me anyway, any game that I make here, I want either the language
05:28we use to be in the game, or a wee bit of our culture here, do you know what I mean?
05:34Because it's made here, and it's made by people who are so passionate about games and stuff,
05:40so it would be weird to Americanise a game made from here, like why not lean on your
05:47culture a wee bit, do you know what I mean?
05:49Even just the way we have a trailer, and we have a Northern Irish accent, I think it's
05:55cool, I want to do more stuff like that as well, do you know what I mean, and kind of
05:58highlight Ireland a wee bit more, whether it be the North or whatever, but there was
06:06a game that came out there, a horror game came out not that long ago called Still Wakes
06:10the Deep, and the voice acting's all in Scottish, or Scottish accent, people loved it, because
06:16it was kind of new and different, and usually all you hear is British English or American
06:22English in games, so just something different, do you know what I mean, and it kind of makes
06:27it a wee bit more immersive too, you know?
06:31It's not a stereotypical representation to you of Irish or Scottish culture, you don't
06:36get that very often in media, so you think you've talked about it a wee bit there, but
06:41when you were taking from the locations, did you have to come back home and take photos
06:45of their locations for the game?
06:48I was asking some of my mates if they had any, because I'm living in Belfast, so I could
06:53just go uptown and do it, so I was asking my mates for some, and they had a couple,
06:57just for reference, and then I just Googled a lot of the rest of them, I asked some of
07:02the, I think it was Storefront and Guapo, asked them to send me a PNG of their logos,
07:10but as I said, some places, like Paris doesn't have a PNG ready of their storefront, so I
07:19had to Photoshop that and everything.
07:24Do you ask them?
07:26I do, well, I did at least when I was away, I don't really know, I don't use an unhater
07:31anymore, but I did have asthma when I was away, and I have a very core memory of doing
07:39a wee marathon when I was at primary school, and I had an asthma attack towards the end
07:43of the game.
07:44Do you think that's what made you hide the asthma, the unhater made it to the end of
07:47the game?
07:48I think so, I think it sneaked its way in there somehow, because I needed, because in
07:54this game the entity always follows you, I wanted it, I wanted there to be some kind
07:59of restrictive mechanic to the player, not just running around it and taking the piss
08:05out of it.
08:06So I was like, you need to have limited stamina, and I was like, right, how else could you
08:09limit the players, how could you contextually limit the players stamina, if this was a real
08:15thing?
08:16And I was like, well, if they have asthma they can't run forever, and it's probably
08:19come back from that core memory of actually having an asthma attack to be honest.
08:23But I think it fits well, and it's not really something you see in a lot of our games.
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17:43It's here, do you see it?
17:44Now!
17:45It's here, do you see it?
17:46Now!
17:47It's here, do you see it?
17:48Now!
17:49It's here, do you see it?
17:50Now!
17:51It's here, do you see it?
17:52Now!
17:53It's here, do you see it?
17:54Now!
17:55It's here, do you see it?
17:56Now!
17:57It's here, do you see it?
17:58Now!
17:59It's here, do you see it?
18:00Now!
18:01It's here, do you see it?
18:02Ok?
18:03Erm, so Crowded Fold, it came out last week there.
18:06It's on sale at the moment for 10% off.
18:09So its £4.49 on Steam and erm, eh?
18:15Go buy it.
18:16Go buy it and give us a review please!
18:19We need to get out of here.
18:21NOW!