Overview
- Jonathan Chey said he no longer sees value in having many plasmids in BioShock, arguing that raw variety does not guarantee meaningful choices.
- He is an Irrational Games co-founder and served as director of development on BioShock, with credits reaching back to the original Thief.
- Chey describes Blue Manchu’s Godzone 6 as an immersive sim shaped like a roguelike deckbuilder that compresses replays and narrows choices to force experimentation.
- He compares the structure to Slay the Spire, where players get a shifting palette of tools and do not always see their preferred options.
- Kotaku reports that each run starts by building a grotesque mutant with bespoke skills across roles like hacker, stealth, caster, tiny or giant body types, though the game is early with demos planned and no date yet.