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This is GamerTack Radio with your host, Danny Pena, Paris Lilley, and Peter Toledo.

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So GimmerTag Radio, we're back here, and we have some special guests.

And we're going to be talking about Taubborn, which we talked about it a couple weeks back.

We got to play it at the Xbox Gamescom event here in L.A. I wasn't in Germany. I'm jealous, but it's okay. So we have a special guest here. Both are going to, can you guys introduce yourself? Let's start with Trisha. Sure. Hi, I'm Trisha Stauffer, and I am the CEO and president of Stoic. Also, fan of Towerborn all right and I am McLaren

and I am the game director on Towerborn and the number two fan oh number two fan all right so

number three then I'm guess right there you always got a nip at the heels of number one yeah yeah

nah so yeah I um I heard about you guys a while back.

Didn't you guys worked on Banner Saga a while back, right?

We did.

So Stoic was created 12 and a half years ago when John, Arnie, and Alex left BioWare to,

they said, they looked at the money they had and said what what can we what game could we make with this and started with Banner Saga had made three games there yeah I mean the the transition is a little different like compared to like the banner saga and now with your new project of Taubborn what was like any inspirations or what was it that you wanted to do something different compared to like your previous games? Sure. Banner Saga, like I said, was created, uh, because they had limited amount of money in order to, to make a game. And that's what they thought they could make with that. Um, but the John, and Alex all have a long history of multiplayer games.

So actually, Banner Saga was kind of more of a switch for them than Towerborn.

But as they were making Banner Saga one, two, and three, you know, their families were growing,

more kids involved in all of that.

Banner Saga series is a single player, dark series, affectionately called a depression simulator inside the studio.

And so as they were continuing, they wanted something that they could play with their friends and family and sit on the couch and

play with their kids and things like that.

So that was really it.

And then I return back to a live, a live game that you could, the community is very important to Stoic.

And we still have a very strong community around Banner Saga, but being able to have a game where you can continue that conversation longer than just here's the box product and go play the game once.

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