Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior reinvents the hack ‘n’ slash genre by empowering players to rewind time and fight with an army of their past selves. Thibault Legouet, game director and lead game designer at Sand Door Studio, joins Sam to discuss Lysfanga’s innovative combat, its origins as a student project, and the challenges of making a game where you can play co-op with yourself.

Timecodes:

00:00:00 – Intro

00:01:44 – Thibault’s favorite game of all-time

00:04:27 – What is Lysfanga?

00:09:48 – Why Thibault went down the game design path

00:17:43 – How did Lysfanga go from a student project to a commercial project?

00:21:44 – Where does the name Lysfanga come from?

00:32:44 – What did they learn from the student version to the commercial version?

00:44:42 – Coming up with the character designs

00:51:42 – Surprises from people playing

00:54:24 – Thibault’s advice to new game designers

01:00:49 – Outro

Find Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior on Steam and Epic Games Store now.

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