If you like those games, I had a close seat on them, and we're taking that to the next level.' Having done those, and having worked on Portal 2's co-op mode, I have a good understanding of how players interact and talk, and mistakes we made, in ensuring that people work together.
'Clearly they're influential to me in deciding what does and doesn't work in co-op games. 'I was the project lead on Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2, and those are two of my favorite games ever made,' Faliszek says from his home office in Seattle. The new game's co-creator, former Valve designer and writer Chet Faliszek, is banking on it.
SEATTLE-The makers of new game The Anacrusis, as revealed during today's Summer Games Fest presentation, are happy for you to mistake it for something like Left 4 Dead, only transported to a '70s sci-fi universe.