Nightingale studio lead explains the game’s BioWare roots, card system
Survival crafting games have a habit of coming out of nowhere and being really enjoyable and popular. In 2021, Valheim took the gaming world by storm. This year, V Rising’s vampiric take on the formula is one of 2022’s biggest gaming surprises. Inflexion Games and Tencent’s Level Infinite hope that Nightingale is the next one of those hits. This first-person survival crafting game makes players a Realmwalker, someone who forages, fights, creates, and survives in the Faewild realms of their own creation in hopes of finding the titular, mythical city of Nightingale.
While the game looks like it’s in good shape, it has had an unusual development as it started as a cloud game under Improbable before completely shifting into a more traditional survival game after developer Inflexion Games was sold to Tencent. Still, throughout all of those changes, Aaryn Flynn was at the game’s helm. Flynn made a name for himself at BioWare, where he was a programmer on games like Baldur’s Gate 2 and Jade Empire before becoming General Manager of the studio in between Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Nightingale is Flynn’s first game since leaving BioWare. Digital Trends spoke to Inflexion Games’ CEO Aaryn Flynn at Summer Game Fest Play Days to learn more about how his BioWare experiences influenced Nightingale, how the game will stand out in the crowded survival crafting genre, and just how much of that original cloud gaming vision remains.
Digital Trends: Nightingale is much different than anything you worked on at BioWare. What are some of the biggest lessons you took from BioWare for this game?
Arynn Flynn: One of the things we made sure we did, having learned some things at BioWare, was that around the topic of
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