Game development studio Asobo opened its doors in Bordeaux, France nearly two decades ago. Their first game was an adaptation of a late 90s children’s book-turned-television series about friendly anthropomorphized animals, Sitting Ducks. David Dedeine, CCO and co-founder of the studio, described it to me with a chuckle, as, “A sort of GTA for kids.” The studio’s history is built upon strata of licensed family-friendly games just like Sitting Ducks. But this year, they plan to release A Plague Tale: Innocence — a game set during a time of pox and pestilence as the Black Death visited unfathomable devastation upon Europe’s population in the 14th century. The tonal dissonance between … Continue reading How Asobo Went From Ratatouille To Plague Rats