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"We Think About Stupid Ideas": Clair Obscur Devs On Their Secret To Success

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Vaspaan Dastoor

Published May 20, 2025

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Sandfall Interactive encouraged stupid ideas for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
That's how we got some of the game's most memorable moments.
It also explains Esquie and Francois.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is undoubtedly the breakout hit of the year. Reaching 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a million copies sold on day-one, becoming the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:highest rated game in 2025, and even becoming the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:highest player rated game in M𓆏etacritic history is no small task. Even French president Emmanuel Macron cong💜ratul🍬ated the studio on its success.

Gustave from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 holding a rubber chicken and laughing.

Why Isn't Anybody Talking About How Funny Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Is?

So much death... so much giggling.

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But how did Sandfall Interactive gain this unprecedented success with its debut game? We know that the studio took its time and the game saw multiple iterations before launch and looked wildly different from the final product. But, in director Guillaume Broche's own words, the devs weren't afraid to🔜 think of stupid ideas.

Sandfall Interactive Embraced Stupidity For Clair Obscur: Expedition

Just think about the first time you met Fracois. A literal rock whose only attack is called 'World's Strongest Ice Attack'. That sounds like a stupid idea on paper, but ❀it's exactly the kind of thinking that the devs strived for. "Our best way of making cool content is just, we think about stupid ideas," explained Broche in a conversation with (via ).

"And we have a ton of stupid ideas. Every lunch, we just imagine stupid stuff that makes no sense and [is] very🐼 silly, and the thing is, we dꦚon't have any very big corporate meetings on the validation pass and everything, so very often it's like, just try something."

"If this person who has this idea just tries something and it's fun, it's like, hey Guillaume, come here, look at this. And I'm like, oh, this is fun, and then we just build it in the game, and if it needs more polish we'll polish it a bit more," he continued. "But in general, the ideas, we are super open to everybody's ideas. I think that's our key strength, that we leave enough creativity for everyone to just put their own soul in🌄 the game. But also, the creative vision itself is very, very clear. We know where we want to go."

As for the team itself, Broche r🐓evealed that the story of Sandfall Interactive is akin to the formation of an RPG party. "It's really a team just assembled together in very random ways, but somehow the synergy worked out." It did work out indeed. This rag-tag group of developers may have just put out 2025's Game of The Year.