"In a night filled with gory trailers for loud action games, one of the new reveals at The Game Awards stood out for its gentle nature: Coven of the Chicken Foot. The game defied almost every trend of the night: it was a single-player game, in a beautiful cel-shaded animation style, in which the main character is an elderly woman."
"We were kind of in this paradigm of this style of game-that I was part of creating! But it felt like I've been in this position before. My brain isn't good with that type of repetition. I need new problems to solve, I need new creative outlets. I'm not saying there wouldn't be opportunities there, but couple that feeling with the idea that I was working really, really hard at something that wasn't mine."
Bruce Straley departed Naughty Dog in 2017 after 18 years, driven by a sense of creative repetition and a need for new challenges. Straley helped direct major cinematic action titles before stepping away to pursue different creative outlets. He now leads Wildflower Interactive, a 16-person studio founded in 2021. Wildflower's first project, Coven of the Chicken Foot, is a single-player, cel-shaded adventure featuring an elderly witch named Gertie and a companion creature that learns to assist her. The game's tone and style deliberately contrast louder action trends.
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