Goodbye Deponia: "I mess with the player a lot"

Creative director Jan "Poki" Müller-Michaelis talks to us about ending the Deponia trilogy with Goodbye Deponia, about tricking the player and saying farewell to a world he has lived in for years.

"In the third part I can actually close the story and bring all the open story threads together - which would be enough material for one game by itself - but of course there was some new things that I wanted to introduce into the storyline as well. So it's a very rich, huge game," the creative director told us.

One of the ways he kept the series interesting was by playing around with player's expectations: "I mess with the player a lot," he told us, before later adding: "It's a little bit like playing a mind game with someone. I try laying out traps that I really enjoy when they fall in."

A poignant part of development was writing the lyrics to a song that appears just before the credits roll at the end: "One of the last tasks I did in writing was writing the songs, because as you know in Deponia there's always this singer-songwriter guy with his guitar singing the songs, and I'm doing the songs myself, even in the English version, I'm singing them myself. And of course I'm writing the lyrics for the songs as well, and one of the last steps was writing the lyrics for the last song, which really comes at the end, just before the credits... With every new line that I wrote down I became more and more sad about it."

The third and final chapter in the series, Goodbye Deponia, is set to launch on October 17. Once it's released you'll be able to buy it here or on Steam.