Lore reinforcement

The backstory for We Were Here was cooked up by de Visser to explain why the first game took place in a castle in the Arctic, but has snowballed over time. The story is now a major focus for Forever, so much so that it’s launching alongside a live-action YouTube series, Chronicles Of Castle Rock, based on a story written by creative director Ruud Renting. “It was kind of an autobiographical story for him, but it was also about [series setting] Castle Rock,” van den Ouden says. “The whole idea grew out of that – from somebody writing something in one night to ‘maybe it's a podcast’ to ‘let's go all out, and film it’.”