Redfall piti julkaista kuluvana kesänä, mutta toisin kävi. Lykkäys tehtiin aina vuoden 2023 ensimmäiselle puoliskolle saakka. Kehittäjä Arkane Austin on kuitenkin jatkanut innolla pelistään puhumista.
IGN:lle puhunut Studio Director Harvey Smith kertoi paljonkin niin pelistä kuin kehitysprosessista. Muun muassa se selvisi, miksi aiemmin yksinpeleillä Dishonored ja Prey kunnostautunut studio päätti suunnata co-op-pelaamiseen. Oli aika tehdä jotain uutta.
"When we started Redfall, I had just done eight years of Dishonored. Ricardo had done four years of Dishonored, four years of Prey. We felt like we needed some kind of creative risk or some kind of change. We always wanted to work on an open-world [game]. We just talked about the narrative systems that would be involved with multiplayer, with co-op, with characters that would get to know each other over time."
Avoin maailma johti kuitenkin omanlaisiinsa haasteisiin, sillä aluksi Redfallin maailma oli liian kookas ja avoin.
"It's very open. For what it's worth, it's made to be an on-foot game. [With] people talking about the square footage, what's appropriate is different based on whether you're just running and walking or whether you have vehicles or you fly on a dragon or whatever. Ours is an on-foot, urban-exploration game, so it's the right size for that, I think. It's mostly very open. In fact, at first it was too open. It was like there was not enough blocking you or channeling you, but it's very, very open rooftops and alleys and streets of this small town - Redfall, Massachusetts - which is like a fishing community, a tourist community. Quaint, historic New England stuff with this stealthy takeover by vampires."
Redfallia muutettiin siten, että nyt peli on jaettu kahteen erilliseen alueeseen.
"The one thing that we do in terms of that gating pretty heavily is we divided the world into two districts. District one is the first half of the missions and it's the downtown part of Redfall, and District two is more rural. It's farms, lighthouses, churches, things like that."
Redfallia voi aikanaan pelata myös yksin, ellei halua kavereita seuraksi.
