Think Doctor Who as written by Agatha Christie. The story of The Forgotten City is complex but is revealed in layers so somehow you're able to comprehend it without your brain leaking out of your ears. I ended up leveling up just about everything.' Mystery man 'Because the setting changed, the city changed, so the characters had to change, and their backstories had to change, and so on. That also meant more work, and Pearce adds that the script for the standalone is twice as long as the original.

Matyszak and I exchanged well over 300 emails over the span of 20 months, and did video link-ups, just so we could add lots of little details for history fans to enjoy.' 'We've worked closely with them to create the experience of traveling back in time to an ancient Roman city, and so we've included lots of little details like temples, shrines, roads, niches, mosaics, reliefs, and frescoes based on real-world examples from the time period,' he says. Sophie Hay, who has spent the last 20 years excavating the ruins of Pompeii. Philip Matyzak, who has a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford and teaches at Cambridge, and Dr. To make sure The Forgotten City was as historically accurate as the fantastical story would allow, Pearce brought in two people he refers to as 'the big guns,' Dr. 'Transplanting my story into a Roman setting was absolutely massive, but it has allowed us to add some really cool story beats and twists, and to explore some fascinating real-world aspects of history, philosophy, mythology, and art we couldn't have used otherwise.' 'I'd always felt the mod was a rough draft of something much, much better,' he says.

The standalone version doesn't just strip out then Skyrim, it adds layers of Roman lore to the original game. 'It felt like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute, and my plan was to learn to fly by the time I hit the ground.'

'In late 2016, I did the riskiest thing I've ever done: I quit my job, founded a studio, hired a one-man-army Unreal engine engineer, and got to work,' says Pearce.

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