Intercept Video games was based in early 2020 (opens in new tab) to imagine management of the event of Kerbal House Program 2, which as much as that time had been in improvement at unique Kerbal studio Star Principle Video games. On the time, it appeared virtually like a straight identify change, as “key members” of the Kerbal 2 workforce together with former Star Principle studio head Jeremy Ables, inventive director Nate Simpson, and lead producer Nate Robinson all moved to Intercept to proceed engaged on the sport.
The method hasn’t gone completely easily since then, nonetheless. On the time, Kerbal House Program 2 was slated to be out someday earlier than March 31, 2021, however after a number of delays it is no longer anticipated till early 2023 (opens in new tab). It additionally not too long ago got here to gentle that whereas Intercept Video games was shaped particularly to work on Kerbal 2, it is also obtained one other recreation on the go.
That undertaking, in response to a Take Two job itemizing (opens in new tab), is “an unannounced stylized science-based journey recreation.” The itemizing says candidates ought to have a “ardour for house exploration, rocketry, worldbuilding, and associated leisure media,” and can be liable for (amongst different issues) “translat[ing] the sport’s visible design language into explorable worlds.” Expertise creating or engaged on “absolutely spherical planets,” and with Unreal Engine, Gaea (which is a terrain design device), World Creator, or World Machine, are good bonus abilities to have.
These particulars sound loads like they’re for a job engaged on KSP2, and it is potential that is the job—the itemizing would not specify. A number of the different Personal Division job listings do specify that they are for KSP2, although, which could possibly be taken as an indication that this one is for one thing else.
Regardless, what’s noteworthy is just that Intercept is engaged on one thing else—maybe a Kerbal spinoff of some type (“stylized science-based journey” would definitely match that invoice) or probably one thing utterly unique. And that, naturally, may lead one to marvel what affect, if any, this new undertaking has on Kerbal 2.
One person on this September thread within the Kerbal boards (opens in new tab), the place the itemizing was first seen, speculated that the itemizing might point out that Kerbal 2 is way sufficient alongside that Intercept can afford to start out shifting builders to different issues; one other steered that it may need performed a job in Intercept’s struggles to complete the sport it was shaped to create.
I’ve reached out to Personal Division for remark and can replace if I obtain a reply.
