With the Chernobyl nuclear disaster proving to be an incredibly fertile setting for a number of highly acclaimed games (like the S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Metro series) another game which draws inspiration from the Chernobyl exclusion zone is Chernobylite - a post-apocalyptic first person survival game that was developed by Polish game developer The Farm 51 and released in 2021 to generally favourable reviews.
Now 4 years later, The Farm 51 are readying its sequel for release and are looking to build upon what they've done previously. As part of this, I got to speak with Wojtek Pazdur (Development Director, The Farm 51) and was able to find out a little bit more about his upcoming game project, Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone, and also got to ask him about his background in game development. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcls_4Y5x-0
Chernobylite 2 is the sequel to the original Chernobylite game. What's the development history?
Well, the original Chernobylite is the project that we started work on in 2017 and it was right after the success of our virtual reality application called Chernobyl VR Project - a sort of serious application which was a virtual trip to Chernobyl. We went to the place, we 3D scanned many objects in the Che...