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    Q&A DINGA BAKABA

    Dec 30, 2021 6 minutes

    Dinga Bakaba, game director and recently promoted studio head of Arkane Lyon

    Since it was founded in 1999, Arkane Studios has built a reputation for crafting deep worlds and systems, but Deathloop has proved something of a breakout hit. Game director Dinga Bakaba discusses how our game of the year differs from its precursors, and how that affected its reception both publicly and internally.

    Congratulations on Deathloop landing the top spot in Edge’s 2021 Awards – we’re sure this won’t be the only such recognition it receives. How has the game’s reception felt on your side?

    We are super happy that the game is recognised like that. If we were to go back and tell Dinga of three and a half years ago… he wasn’t cynical enough to laugh, but he would have been surprised. Not because we didn’t want to make an interesting game, but because we thought that we were going to make something

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