In order to offer never before seen visual quality, we used a technique called photogrammetry. Graphics aren’t always that important in video games, but they are extremely important in our game. Thanks, Mikolai! 4.) We Had to Censor the Reality And then his Original Soundtrack for the game won multiple industry awards.
THE VANISHING OF ETHAN CARTER GAMEPLAY PRO
Luckily, Mikolai took it all like a pro that he is, and continued working with us closely for the next year or so. We called Mikolai, and, wearing sackcloth and ashes, apologized. But walking around Red Creek Valley with Mikolai’s music in the background was an astonishing, otherworldly experience. It turned out that what Mikolai has done was absolutely incredible, it’s just that we evaluated his work in the wrong way, listening to the tracks without seeing the imagery they were supposed to accompany. Make sure you actually play the game and play the tracks as if they’re already implemented as the game’s background music.” We listened to the tracks again and then we called Mikolai and told him that we did not like the direction he chose but if he is okay with that then maybe let’s try again? Mikolai was a bit surprised but agreed to give it another go, and we split for the night.īut then one of us called the others and said, “Gentlemen, this music is incredible, but don’t just listen to it. It’s just not what we imagined the score would be, the tracks were too engaging, too cinematic, too fantasy. We listened to them all and I wish I could tell you “and then there was silence”, but the truth is we were very vocal about our disappointment. We liked it, so a few months later we asked him to be the first guy to try creating an actual game score.Ī few days later, Mikolai sent us three tracks. He expressed his interest in making music to The Vanishing of Ethan Carter by sending us his own version of the score to the game’s teaser. The composer, Mikolai Stroinski, is known for his smaller (Dark Souls trailer) and bigger works (The Witcher 3). Okay, we did not hate the music the entire time, just for the first three hours. We Hated the Game’s Music, and then it Won Multiple Awards We chose Wisconsin due to its striking similarity to the vegetation and landscapes of our fictional Red Creek Valley that was based on the actual valley in the Polish Karkonosze mountains. So that forced us to look for that specific place that would fit the story and the name. Ethan Carter is a very British/American name. It’s only when we started marketing the game and telling everyone that the game is not taking place in any specific location when we realized that no, it’s not “a story that can happen almost anywhere” when your main character is named Ethan Carter, and not, say, Kajetan Woznica. It’s a story that can happen almost anywhere, be it United States or Poland.Īt least that’s what we thought. “No, but we love this idea, and from now on we’re going to stick with it.” And that is why we tell everyone that it was Randolph Carter who inspired Ethan’s last name.Īs you can see, in 1930s they really loved their “The Something of Someone” template (The Vanishing of Simmons, The Statement of Randolph Carter, etc.) for a title, and we respected that tradition with the title for our own game.Īn ancient evil ruling a remote valley tries to stop a private detective from finding a missing boy. But then one day a fan asked us if “Carter” was a nod to another story from the Weird Tales magazine: Lovecraft’s The Statement of Randolph Carter. It’s the same with the name of “Ethan Carter.” There’s no clear inspiration behind it, it just came to us, subconsciously, and felt right. “No, that’s not what it’s about”, answered the poet, “But your interpretation is much better, so from now on I’m going to stick with it.” There is this great anecdote about a poet who met a fan at a party, and that fan passionately analyzed one of the poet’s works. There’s both poetry and mystery to the “vanishing” word, and that is exactly the message we wanted the title to express. The title is inspired by The Vanishing of Simmons, the story by August Derleth, a writer best known for being the first publisher of Lovecraft. But even though we liked some of them a lot, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter was always our favorite. We created a list of proposals that included titles like The Incident in Red Creek Valley, Midnight Detective, and The Case of Ethan Carter. We went through all the books and all the magazines, including the famous Weird Tales.
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