We talk to Koen and Paul Deetman, the founders of KeokeN Interactive about their ambitious new space adventure game, Deliver Us Mars.
There’s no shortage of space games out there at the moment. A cursory glance at the Xbox Store, PSN, or Steam will reveal a wealth of interstellar adventures - Destiny 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, Halo Infinite, and Elite Dangerous just to name a few. But the overwhelming majority of space games drag us hundreds of years into humanity's future to show us fully fledged interstellar empires and galactic wars. We rarely get a glimpse at what our near future might look like.
I think we were very attracted to that because it was like we were making our own comics and stories and books. I guess as kids, in a very playful way, we were already collaborating, just not in a business sense. So, later on we went on separate roads in entertainment, but we found our way back - it was kind of meant to happen and we decided eight or nine years ago that we would really try this out as a company.
Space.com: And what has this partnership with Frontier allowed you to do that you couldn't do on your own?As a developer you’re always afraid to lose creative freedom. I think with Frontier we have a very organic and very open relationship - very transparent, so anything we bring to the table is in a very collaborative way.
By telling a grounded story, we can speak to people with emotional stories about people that also wonder about the universe. So it’s always a little bit of a mix between the groundedness of the emotions between people and families, and then philosophy or what should we do, what’s the next frontier in space?Space.com: A lot of the storytelling in Deliver Us The Moon was done via holograms and audio logs, whereas we understand you’ve done a lot of motion capture work on Deliver Us Mars.
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