Interplanetary, most extraordinary craft
Remember 2011? Not a bad 12 months for games, that. Big hitters such as Skyrim, Portal 2 and Dark Souls. Indie delights including Bastion and Frozen Synapse, plus Limbo’s arrival on PC/PS3. And not forgetting one of the year’s most singular treats, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, a pixel-art fusion of music and interactivity that felt like the arrival of an important new talent on the game-making stage. It took nine long years to find out what Superbrothers would deliver next, when Jett: The Far Shore broke cover as part of Sony’s E3 2020 showcase. And now, a year on, we’re playing the game for the first time, and talking to its developers about navigating “unexplored genre space” during the creation process.