During an interview at Reboot Develop as we speak, Guerrilla Games co-founder Hermen Hulst talked a bit bit about how the collaboration with Kojima Productions on Death Stranding got here to be.
Death Stranding, in fact, uses Guerrilla Games’ proprietary Decima engine. After leaving Konami, Hideo Kojima took an enormous journey to many improvement studios to check how they work, and see the tech getting used to make games.
Kojima’s work has clearly solely been on internally-developed engines, together with the Fox engine created for Metal Gear Solid 5. The final cease on his journey was to The Netherlands, visiting Guerrilla Games.
It was initially meant to be a fast go to, however Hulst says they ended up spending a few days collectively.
“I was talking to Michiel v.d. Leeuw, our technical director, and said, ‘You know what, let’s just give Kojima Productions our source code on a stick and offer it to them,’” recounted Hulst.
“They just couldn’t believe that a studio like us would just hand that to them. They wondered why. The honest reason was just for them to make a game. The idea that we can enable a studio of that calibre to make a great game, and we can play a part of that,” he added.
In reality, previous to providing the engine, Guerrilla Games didn’t also have a identify for the tech. Hulst and Kojima got here up with the phrase Decima, which is the identify of an artificial island within the bay of Nagasaki.
Fittingly, the Decima island (additionally known as Dejima) was inbuilt 1634 as a house for Portuguese merchants; Japan’s manner of limiting their affect on the nation. The Dutch later moved to the island in 1641, making it Japan’s solely commerce port with the remainder of the world.
Hulst additionally revealed {that a} crew from Guerrilla Games engineers would go on missions to Tokyo to assist Kojima Productions with engine assist, typically embedded in groups on the Japanese studio.
Through this partnership, Guerrilla was in a position to enhance the engine primarily based on common conversations the Dutch crew has with Kojima Productions.
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