"Nobody wants to play a match 3 game": Products Indie Dev made his match-3 metroidvania to "definitely prove" to its publishers

Xalavier Nelson Jr., the head of the Indie Studio Strange Scaffold, has supervised many strange and wonderful games. Out of Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator To Click To El Paso, elsewhere And I am your animal, you never know what he and the team will do next. keyword Creepy redneck -dinosaur -villa 3The “Match-3 Survival Horror Comedy RPG Metroidvania, which they didn't know they needed.”

We met with Nelson Jr. at GDC to ask him the question in all thoughts: Why play a match 3 game in 2025 in 2025?

“I played the puzzle quest years and years ago and said: 'Wow, it is really cool that you have found a way to translate almost every player verb into a match 3 format, but it is mainly used for the fight,” he tells us. “And then I brought it to the publisher, and the publishers were like 'No-One wants to play a match-3 game'. At Steam Next, we have definitely proven it to be wrong and have this really wild genre mix, which is also a comment on the current state of the games, from the inside of a canceled sequel to a franchise that does not exist.”

I am glad to hear that the game cuts off well Steam at the next partyBecause although the games from Strange Scaffold are a versatile group, they are always pretty good. El Paso, elsewhere it is even transformed into a film Stars Lakeh Stanfield. But what is a creepy Redneck dinosaurs -Villa 3?

(Photo credit: strange scaffolding)

“At a gameplay level, depending on the day, I am deeply irritated or frightened by RPG character creator,” explains Nelson JR .. “You ask you to put a few points in things, and you have no idea how to use it or how it affects your journey into the game […] I saw an opportunity to have an RPG framework [where] If you do something strange to horny a book in your throat, we can call you wildly, because what you have done, we can define you through your actions and give you options that you have taken in the game and not an arbitrary skill control because you have put enough points into statistics. “

This is a game system that I can get behind. Maybe the reason why I repeatedly repeated Skyrim Is because I know where my skill points go and they only rise the skills they use. I don't want to learn completely new systems and have to read myself in front of every new RPG that I play in them or read huge build guides. In addition to RPG elements, there is also a Metroidvania part of the game.

“How the Metroidvania part comes in when you play the game and carry out scenarios and find alternative paths, you will find ways and options on these paths that are blocked by characteristics and objects [which] You can only do strange things throughout the villa, “says Nelson JR .. It is not:” Now I can jump twice. “It is:” I saw when I entered a dialogue that there is a large door that can only be opened with a huge diamond. I now have a huge diamond in my inventory, maybe I should go in there. “And then open a door in this strange wooden society that is devoted to the search for a true version of a video game.”

Creepy redneck dinosaur mansion 3 – announcement trailer – YouTube

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If you have ever played a strange scaffolding game or have seen one of Nelson Jr.'s social media posts, this is exactly what you would expect from him. If not, just trust me, it sounds like this is a good game. It is a bit of a confusing mix of genres, and that has a problem.

“It was actually the topic of a meeting that we had at the end of last year,” says Nelson JR .. “We had the kind of Playtest results for which they would kill – people loved the story, they loved the art, they thought that the gameplay was involved. However, they had no idea what they were playing.”

The team had a meeting to find out what they were actually doing for the world, and let it be settled in a Metroidvania, in which “their actions and their research by the manor house generate a non -linear structure, which still told the history of the game, but the content that we had already built in was already more interesting and exploratory. “And we did it and the fact that it is connected to players, and people not only see the genre soup, but come out and say: 'I have never played such a game so that the soup makes sense. It is beyond our wildest dreams and it is something that makes us very grateful for the processes and the team approach that brought us here at all. “

A trio of strange decisions with a mysterious book. The last option is to eat it

(Photo credit: strange scaffolding)

Although the team managed to get a coherent game out of all this, it was not smooth all the time. “I've always wanted to make a game called [this] Without having done 1 and 2, “explains Nelson jr ..” We have developed it for years. There are a few different versions of it, none of them have received funds. I saw the outer Wilds concert last year and felt deep feelings because this soundtrack would bring it to this place, and I realized that this game, which was killed by the industry as a whole, offered a very unique opportunity.

“Because the games usually take until they build, they do not have the ability to comment in real time. That is why some of our parodies can often feel very out of date-it is because it took 3-5 years so that they have funny that may not be used. Therefore, this game has been used.

I am glad that Nelson Jr. and strange scaffolding bring another strange game into the world and can hardly wait to try it for yourself.

There is actually another match-3 genre fusion game that I look forward to. Spirit swap: Lofi beats with Match-3 TO is a match-3 and dating simulator, which looks absolutely enchanting and has a super funny demo. Listen to Exactly here. You can also try creepy Redneck dinosaurs here.

In the meantime, take a look at all the upcoming Publication dates for video games So you know what else comes out this year.

“Nobody wants to play a match 3 game”: Products Indie Dev made his match-3 metroidvania to “definitely prove” to its publishers

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