As I mentioned in our Games of the Week last week, CrossCode was a game that took me by surprise. Underneath its classic 16-bit exterior lies a deeply modern hack-and-slash with a shockingly complex story. I reached out to Felix, one of the founders of the team behind CrossCode to see what went into making such a surprisingly deep game. Let’s start this off with the basics: Who are you and what is CrossCode? My name is Felix Klein, I’m co-founder of Radical Fish Games. Together with about 12 other people I’ve been working on CrossCode, a retro-inspired Action-RPG with long dungeons and lots of puzzles and combat. You had a really open development cycle, why did you take this path? We originally didn’t plan for such an “open” development cycle. Instead we thought we’d finish the game back…

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