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What made you decide you were going to use these two specific meters for the society's feelings and feedback?

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You guys went with two different meters: the hope meter and the discontent meter, and these are influenced by different things-they can both be full and they can both be empty. I found it interesting that, usually from a city-building standpoint where you have citizens, you do kind of get a feel for their happiness. So itвЂ™s obviously an iterative process and heavily so, and this unique blend comes out of it, in service of the themes of the game, not the other way around. So whether we are designing a simulation system or content in the tech tree or society decisions in the book of laws or coming up with the art style, we are always asking ourselves whether these things converge on the central themes of the game, like asking the big questions about survival, of the limits of survival and what a society is capable of. We know we want to make a game in the vein of a genre that we have in mind, but what we are really after is an experience, and the feelings and emotions that the player gets out of playing the game, and thatвЂ™s what drags our decisions. Kuba: The trick is that we are notвЂ¦ well, that is actually a staple of 11-Bit Studios in that we arenвЂ™t really that concerned with genre, or the specifics of it.

So, thereвЂ™s this concept of society survival and basically asking the questions of the limits of the boundaries that people are willing and unwilling to cross when faced with questions of survival on a societal scale, was what drove the project from the very beginning.ДЄnd with all these different elements in it-like you said youвЂ™ve got survival, thereвЂ™s resource management, thereвЂ™s society management, it has a bit of a strategy feel to it too at times-how was it trying to balance all these different elements so that one doesnвЂ™t completely overshadow the others? Because This War of Mine was a special kind of experience, but at the same time we felt that this was something that resonated with the players, the meaningfulness of the themes in the game and the seriousness of the tone, so we were looking for things that would go along these lines.Д«ut at the same time we wanted to make a bigger game and follow up with something on a bigger scale, and basically things converged on merging survival gameplay with city building gameplay, and what we knew from the pretty early days of the project was that we wanted to make a game on a bigger scale, in terms of these serious themes, and that meant going up from the scale of individuals to the levels of societies. It was on the one hand-This War of Mine was a really big hit, and after it landed and it changed basically the playing field for the company, we knew that we would have to come up with something thatвЂ¦ we knew we didnвЂ™t want to do a sequel.

Kuba Stokalski: Well, I think it was actually a couple of things coming together. What was the first spark that eventually led to Frostpunk?

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PC Gamer: So I guess IвЂ™d like to start with the original idea for the game, the inception of the game. I recently spoke over Skype with Frostpunk lead designer Kuba Stokalski, project lead and lead artist ЕЃukasz Juszczyk, and senior designer Marta Fijak about the game's development, art, the book of laws, and real-world inspirations.