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Your criticism can't hurt Arc Raiders' art director Robert Sammelin, as his child has already been his biggest critic. In a new series called The Evolution of Arc Raiders, Sammelin describes how his own spawn was less than enthusiastic about Embark Studios' idea for a third-person extraction shooter.
In the new YouTube video, Sammelin explains how the team at Embark Studios came up with the idea for Arc Raiders' setting: "We wanted to make something that was completely our own," he says. "And everyone had an idea of something fantastical, sci-fi leaning, because it's comfortable, everyone likes it, but it's also a challenge to carve out your own [path]."
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Gaming is full of third-person shooters, and it can be difficult to create your own niche in the genre, especially when it comes to the setting. In particular, third-person shooter x sci-fi is a well-trodden path, with behemoths like Halo, Mass Effect, and even the fairly recent Starfield.
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Embark wasn't the only one to realise the overlapping venn diagram between this genre and setting, as Sammelin's kid delivered the artist a burn that he has thankfully now recovered from. "Even my kid, who was 12 at the time," Sammelin says. "[They] just had this sentiment going, 'Oh. New studio? Sci-fi game? Very original.'"
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