Dave the Diver developer confirms story DLC within the works and talks skedaddle-offs for each persona

Or not it has been virtually about two years since Dave the Diver first surfaced, directly attractive the realm together with his distinctive underwater exploration/sushi restaurant administration charms, nevertheless developer Mintrocket won’t be in any admire instances completed however; the studio has now confirmed a narrative enlargement is on the methodology, and even possibly skedaddle-off video video games for each of Dave’s friends.

That’s in line with Dave the Diver creator and director Jaeho Hwang, who shared the information with VGC throughout Singapore’s current Gamescom Asia. “I need to increase Dave the Diver IP itself,” he outlined of the studio’s future plans. “I feel that is each director’s dream, since we’ve a relatable character.” Hwang (who moreover serves as Mintrocket’s CEO) added whereas the wicked sport “did not go actually deep into the private tales in Dave the Diver, as a result of we needed to maintain the sport very informal”, he must open filling in just some of those blanks.

It seems on the very least just some of that can occur in “the story DLC [Mintrocket is] engaged on proper now”, nevertheless Hwang stated he moreover must assemble “separate video games about every character to indicate how they met, what they did earlier than coming to the Blue Gap.” He infamous there’s some precedent for this already, albeit in reverse, given Dave the Diver persona Cobra’s backstory is technically steered in Detestable Manufacturing facility, considered one of Hwang’s earlier video video games.

Hwang added skedaddle-offs focussing on diversified characters might give the studio an completely different to discover new genres inside the Dave the Diver universe, and per probability deal with with Dave the Diver at a time in his existence he had a specific career. “He is at all times been a diver,” he continued, “so we actually have not thought of how we must always transfer with Dave… I actually need to present how he grew up, and the way he grew to become a diver, and the way he ended up coming to the Blue Gap.”

Thus a good distance, Dave the Diver – which has offered over 4m copies since launching closing yr – has received three bits of put up-launch DLC: the Di