No Man’s Sky studio announce The Last Campfire

Hello Games, the English studio behind No Man’s Sky and Joe Danger, introduced The Last Campfire tonight. While they’re nonetheless engaged on No Man’s Sky, it is a game they classify as a “Hello Games Short”, a wee side-project made by two of their group. Those two labored on LostWinds, the colorful platformer about controlling the wind, so that they know a factor or two about cute adventures. Here, have a peek within the announcement trailer.

“The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost Ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home,” Hello say. “Together you will discover a beautiful wilderness filled with lost folk, strange creatures and mysterious ruins.”

Bit imprecise, however there you go. It’s the work of Steven Burgess and Chris Symonds, who had been the lead designer and lead artist respectively of LostWinds at Frontier Developments earlier than becoming a member of Hello.

The Last Campfire is due in 2019. Its Steam page is already up.

The most up-to-date large No Man’s Sky replace got here on the finish of November, introducing strange new biomes and skeletons and all sorts. The game has come a good distance since launch, and extra content material updates and occasions are deliberate.

Hello introduced The Last Campfire throughout The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley’s marketing-o-rama with trophies.

Disclosure: I’ve received a distant-but-still-thought-fondly-of pal at Hello Games.