It took practically a decade of labor, however Daggerfall Unity—one of the best model of Bethesda’s largest RPG—lastly crossed the end line right into a full 1.0 launch in January. With that Herculean activity full, creator Gavin Clayton is transferring on to a brand new mission: Making a Daggerfall-style recreation of his personal.
“I’ve already began engaged on a brand new recreation, however it will be one thing of mine this time,” Clayton mentioned in an interview with DualShockers. “I do genuinely love that outdated model of recreation. The factor I am constructing is in the identical vein. You are speaking massive world, complicated methods, mod help, that is all the stuff I wish to discover, and I wish to take that have of Daggerfall Unity and put it within the new recreation.”
Clayton mentioned he is needed to make video games since he was very younger, however the alternatives have been very restricted again within the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, and so he went into IT as a substitute as a result of it was “wise and right down to Earth,” and one thing he might make a correct dwelling from.
Now, although, Clayton is stepping again from his IT providers enterprise so he can work on the brand new mission full time. He is additionally transferring away from Unity in favor of his personal recreation engine, one he really began engaged on earlier than Daggerfall Unity, which he is “revived … to be a bit extra trendy.” The world and story of the brand new recreation are rooted in a Dungeons and Dragons marketing campaign he ran for buddies again within the Nineteen Nineties, though he mentioned the story will probably be “optional,” as he prefers video games the place gamers “can discover their very own tales.”
All of that’s nonetheless very far off, although. Clayton mentioned on Twitter that he is “nonetheless actually early in tech stage” and is not able to make any kind of formal announcement, and that his plan is to “begin at a smaller scale and construct up as I discover my ft.”
As for the way forward for Daggerfall Unity, it is completed nevertheless it’s not executed: Clayton mentioned the sport is transitioning to a “community-led mission” with the assistance of contributor kaboissonneault. “Kab is without doubt one of the core contributors to DFU and extremely energetic in its mod scene and neighborhood,” Clayton tweeted. “Kab can be searching for individuals to assist evaluate and check PRs on git, so get in contact with him if that is one thing you have got the expertise and will help with. Kab will probably be main the cost to 1.1 launch of DFU. There are extra bugfixes and mod options coming within the close to future.”