SKALD: Against the Black Priory is a retro CRPG filled with unsettling stories and monstrosities, capturing the dark, eerie feel of the genre while making many of its elements more accessible to modern players.
Game Developer caught up with Anders Lauridsen, the game’s developer, to talk about capturing the look and feel of retro CRPGs without some of the issues that came with the classics of the genre, the design challenges that come from creating a world filled with quests and things to do as a single developer, and how they worked to weave a sense of horror into a genre that is normally focused on power fantasies.
