NAME CHECK

he game was not always called . “The working title for the game was ,” Piotrowski says, laughing. “It was a term for a game that you sit down and play until it’s finished. And what allows you to do that is…” well, we’ll leave the rest to your imagination. “Obviously we had a mandate to replace that with something else.” The Conan The Barbarian influence explains the ‘sword and sorcery’ part. As for the extra ‘w’, Piotrowski believes it was his idea. “Though I’m not going to court defending it. But it [otherwise] would have been way too generic and didn’t fit with the unique flavour of the project,” he explains. “We also knew it would make the game more searchable,” Vella adds. “What we know was that we would unintentionally break people’s brains about how to spell ‘sorcery’.”