Light reading

The most important lesson Big Robot has learned from the Early Access period so far has been that audiences are more likely to want “a big chunk of stuff” from each update, rather than a more piecemeal delivery. That includes narrative elements; originally, there was more for players to read and discover about the world, but for the time being,

Light’s players are happy to wait for the lore. “A few people I’ve spoken to have said, ‘I bought the game but actually I’m not going to play it until the story’s in’,” Rossignol says. “They’d rather have the whole thing, and I’m comfortable with that as well – that feels like the right response to me. And so we’re happy just to leave that until we do a big story update where we can address everything at once.”