My personal opinion is that many of todayвЂ™s games are way too long and keep repeating the same thing. I felt it was more important to keep the game fresh and unique all of the time. In Brothers, we could have easily made it into a seven hour game, but that would mean re-using the game mechanics, over and over. I hope that more people focus on the experience rather than the amount of time it takes. How do you feel these shorter experiences resonate with fans and is this a trend you expect to see continue? There have been several notable games like Brothers, Gone Home, and The Stanley Parable that are memorable, yet shorter than the average game. Brothers was inspired a lot from Swedish myth and fairy tale.Д«rothers was a wonderful experience, but it was also a short one. I have always loved the world of fantasy. How did you decide on the fantasy elements used in this game? What made you decide on trolls, giants, and other elements of myth that Brothers used? I realized that in order to implement it we would have to separate them from fighting each other and that would call for a second control stick. After the brothers meet the girl I wanted to create a scene with they start to fight each other because of the girl. There was an idea I would have loved to implement but was not able to. We had a coder working only on that throughout the entire development period. The trickiest thing to implement was definitely the camera. What were some of the trickier sequences to bring to the game, from a technical standpoint? Was there anything you wanted to include in the game that you weren't able to, because of technical restrictions? People truly have their own story in their mind and that is one reason I still donвЂ™t talk about the inspiration behind those features, instead I want players to interpret their own versions. Have you heard any creative interpretations of the Brothers world from anyone that's played this game?

You and I first spoke back when you were first previewing Brothers to the press and you told me that the background scenes, like the trolls working the mines, were stories that could be left to the player's imagination.

Just know that most of the vision is in there! You are never really finished when you make a game so, of course, there were a lot of ideas I wanted to implement, however, there was no time. Shacknews: Now that Brothers is finished, how do you feel? Are you satisfied with the tale you've told and did it come out exactly as you first envisioned? Josef Fares: I am very proud and very happy, especially that so many people have been moved by the game. On top of answering our questions, he was also more than happy to answer some questions from the Chatty community. With Brothers firmly embroiled in many people's Game of the Year conversations, the time seemed right to talk to Mr. A Swedish film director named Josef Fares collaborated with Starbreeze Studios and 505 Games to help tell the story of a pair of siblings venturing across a fantasy world to help save their ailing father.Д«rothers: A Tale of Two Sons excellently combined a powerful narrative with an innovative 'single-player co-op' control scheme to create one of the most memorable gaming experiences of 2013. As a growing number of gaming websites continue to unveil their top games of 2013 (Shacknews' top games list coming soon!), a dark horse suddenly emerged from the indie sector.

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