Yahtzee Interviews Ivan Moen About Moons of Madness | Escapist Magazine

Moon's of Madness is a sci-fi meets Lovecraft horror game set on Mars. Learn all about the game in this interview with Yahtzee Crowshaw and Creative Director, Ivan Moen.
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[@theescapist]

Hey folks! This is the last of Yahtzee's interviews from E3 2019. We hope you enjoyed all the coverage we provided you. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and we can't thank you enough for giving this new content a shot! We'll see how we can make our E3 2020 (if there is an E3) coverage even more fun next year. Yahtz, if you're reading this, sorry. The fans demand we sacrifice more of your cynical soul to the happy folk of E3. There's a couple more Gameumentary interviews to come and then we'll be all done with E3 coverage. OH! And be on the lookout for a little surprise Friday afternoon...

[@1pieceisdareasoniliv]

It's been great content, really enjoyable stuff.

[@paulmurphy3655]

Great interview. This subject matter seems to be right up Croshaws craw.

[@funkfordays2300]

i guess its time to go back to bob chipman's communist hot-takes in between zero punctuation

[@nicolastracz3793]

Nice job people! All of you. Your coverage for E3 was really good, and I really enjoyed it 👍. I hope Yahtzee will not have a hard time reviewing the games he covered here, now that he has been able to meet the developers. Keep it up, all of you!👍

[@nikolayivanov9539]

i hope yahtzee does E3 every year. im afraid he might quit tho

[@adityagudimetla]

Yahtzee's interviews are surprisingly fresh and a nice break from the forced cheerful IGN interviews I mostly see.

[@solidSchmaltz]

And also adorably awkward! Good job Yahtzee!

[@flookaraz]

I like this style of content from yahtz, hope to see more. It'd be really funny if he interviewed developers for games he then makes a ZP about after release

[@Carlos-ln8fd]

Most developers know who he is so it wouldn't be that different I think

[@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw]

Like Mark Kermode. Funniest thing is when he interviews some famous actor and then turns around and does a review of the movie where he just murders it.

[@lucalinadreemur9448]

1:13 the noises of excitement upon hearing there's no combat. And i love the look on the guy's face as he mentions no combat, he looks like he knows he's delivering a treat here

[@Kokorisu]

I really enjoyed this format: some games I hadn't necessarily been following presented in a brief and to the point segment. Well done, lads!

[@Maxer4000]

Hope it's the horror of what behind you and not constant jumpscares

[@lucalinadreemur9448]

Considering you have to run and hide, and psychological horror more than a thriller, and paranoia and isolation being mentioned, i don't see it being very jump scare oriented

[@SorryIJustAteYourDog]

I thought the monsters said "Ablogywogywoo" not boo? Yhatz, how about some goddamn consistency!?

[@Carlos-ln8fd]

Lol Yahtzee is like "playing it cool because this looks like the game of my dreams"

[@JusticeFrogs]

It has jump scares in it. That's a big turn off for him. That, and he is usually wary of any game that uses lovecraft because it seems like it is trying to win nerd cred (kind of like throwing tesla into games). So it has potential, but not certain.

[@oskardahle2478]

@@JusticeFrogs I don't think he completely hates jumpscares as long as they are not overdone.

[@kingcole5977]

He's got that existential dread itch, that he's just got to scratch.

[@Sir_Bucket]

@@JusticeFrogs Jumpscares aren't immediatly a big nono in a games, it can still be scary with them. But you need to not abuse them, especially in a Lovecraft atmosphere, where the spooky thing is the think that you can't comprehend

[@DYNB]

Love the Yahtzee interviews. As an author, game designer and critic he has a fresh perspective on the games, which leads to interesting questions. Plus, his uncomfortable shuffles and glances are just delightful hahaha

[@Steelinsea]

Loved the universe of "the secret world". A great action horror mmo. Glad to have a new game in the universe.

[@whodatninja439]

It's so nice seeing Yahtzee excited about a game at E3! I'm excited for this game too

[@kiraveritas3060]

I wonder what the devs think of Yahtzee, if they see his reviews as charming, insightful, annoying, childish, or completely insignificant? Or some combination of. I’d almost like to hear devs review critics, that would be interesting if they were thoughtful about it.

[@Potato-qv6hq]

Probably just as free publicity unless yahtzee really shits on it, since ZP is fairly popular and most people know not to take the verdicts at face value.

[@gulpirak]

Years ago Yahtzee actually answered this question in an interview I caught. I'm paraphrasing obviously, but he said he usually gets along very well with developers - but not so much with publishers. Furthermore, developers of games he reviewed would often come to him and say that they informed their publishers of many of the problems that Yahtzee would bring up, and they would simply not be given the opportunity to fix them. It sounded like Yahtzee can sometimes be a validating force for devs who are frustrated and/or unsupported by their publisher.

[@octaviocuesta1155]

Can't wait to see the Zero Punctuation of this!

[@Sabretoothsquirrel]

Loved the background music in this video!

[@GrandHighGamer]

"or a knife or something like that" *camera immediately pans down to main character looking at a kitchen knife*

[@Nicoyutub]

I like Yahtzee as an interviewer

[@Beanibirb]

A game I've been waiting for for at least 2 years, can't fucking wait for this to come out.

[@Rekettyelovag]

Damn Yahtzee... you didn't ask him about the Doom 3 cafeteria part...

[@raxelleon8189]

This is his last Interview? Man, I was hoping that he would Interview the guys who did Carrion, Panzer Dragoon, or something from Nintendo.

[@theescapist]

Next year we won’t focus so much on the AAA stuff as there’s not very often a chance for interviews on those titles, and if there is it’s usually the PR person with prepped responses.

[@BroadwayBrittany]

Escapist Good! Besides, the AAA scene already has plenty of coverage and interviews as is-the indie games are the ones that really need these interviews to highlight their games. Plus, the developers tend to provide much more interesting commentary since their answers are allowed to be more honest and relaxed.

[@BEZW1K]

Somehow Yahtzee's interveiws always remind me so much of Louis Theroux's?

[@jonathonsanders1844]

As im watching these developer interviews I can hear his potential reviews of said games being read to me in my head. Lol.

[@ItsHyomoto]

Based on what he's saying, I would say the answer is the monster jumps out and says boo. You have to love a non-committal answer like, "Oh, it's all of those things!" Yeah, just like Death Stranding isn't an action-adventure game, it's a never before seen "Strand Game"! I hate to ding the creative nature of development, but at the end of the day your game is about walking around and solving puzzles in a horror environment. You can put your own spin on that, but it still has actual mechanics the player experiences. That's how it will be described, and that's what Yahtzee was asking.

[@NagbratzNasenbeisser]

I like how the mars looks ingame, throwing some lovercraft in there? sure why not

[@iamLI3]

cool hotline music in this video

[@-Foxer-]

Yes! Heja Norge! 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇦🇽🇳🇴

[@daniels6322]

This interview would have fit comfortably on G4 rip.

[@timokomulainen]

The man was not terrified of Yahtzee. His conscience is clear; the game must be all right! :O

[@DenGuleBalje]

He sounds Norwegian. Cool.

[@Beanibirb]

Rockpocket Games is believe it or not based in Norway!

[@DenGuleBalje]

@@Beanibirb Awesome. Funcom has long been the only relatively major developer here until the guys at D-pad studios finally released Owlboy. Nice to see the Norwegian games industry slowly growing.

[@Kokorisu]

@@DenGuleBalje I don't know since I haven't checked, but judging by the fact that the game is set in The Secret World's universe, I'm guessing the studio is closely tied to Funcom.

[@erutz5190]

"god-like deities"

[@SolarFlairIsBestPony]

... well, this sounds very by the numbers honestly. In a way that people might like if they're after that genre, but still.

[@banino9295]

So the first type is dead space The second type is fnaf And the third type slenderman

[@AA-iq6ev]

Good interviews really like you calm voice and clever questions Here is the link to the game wishlist it to not miss the release store.steampowered.com/app/1012840/Moons_of_Madness/ and also if wanna talk about it the Secret world discord has alos of people knowing the lore and are hped about the game to discuss you find ous here discordapp.com/invite/secretworldlegends

[@MatheusSantos-vl4jx]

Oh look, a Cyberpunk ad! On escapist... Eight after Yahtzee pre-roasted it... Huh.

[@cabben7310]

I've never seen Yahtzee in person before. He's kind of hot

[@kitthekat6844]

I like the bg music a lot! This game looks... meh... Alright? Not for me, that's for sure...

[@BJWeNeedUDefendingUsWithZeMG42]

So kind of like SOMA meets Alien: Isolation? Sign me up!

[@evaunitbrig6435]

ugh, I really don't see why combat would make these games any less scary. You can keep the invincible enemies that you have to run away from just add some regular baddies ya know? A lot of these horror walking sims claim to be inspired by RE yet refuse to add combat lmao

[@KotsovosFilms]

What is this nonsense, none of this stuff is in the finished game. Also, the graphics in this video looks 10x better than the final game. For example, there is NO scene in the game when you get stabbed with a knife. Something very weird going on, it feels like a bait and switch,