Vi fikk nylig muligheten til å snakke med en av Harebrained Schemes grunnleggere, Mitch Gitelman, om BattleTech, Necropolis og utvikleren generelt. Akkurat nå gjennomfører Shadowrun: Hong Kong-teamet en liten campaign slik de lovet under Kickstarter-innsamlingen, men når den er ferdig slutter de seg til gjengen som lager BattleTech. Deretter vil det drøye før vi ser noe mer til Shadowrun. Gitelman forklarer:
"We're going to step back from Shadowrun for a while, let people rest. We put out three games in three years. A couple of things about Shadowrun. First of all we love Shadowrun. Shadowrun is now part of the DNA of our studio now and so for example, on the anniversary of the Shadowrun Returns kickstarter, we celebrate. We get a cake."
Det betyr imidlertid ikke at de er lei av serien. De har faktisk planer om neste del allerede:
"When we return to Shadowrun we intend to return to a different place in the world, to see how you know, 50 years and the return of magic affects different cultures around the world. We think that's fun. Shadowrun Hong Kong, the story couldn't have happened anywhere else other than Hong Kong, just like Berlin in Dragonfall. It couldn't have happened anywhere else other than the city of Berlin. So that's what we are attempting to do as we go all around the world but, I think the game will need to take a different form in the future. Probably fully 3D. We'll see what happens. We have to keep up with the times."
Kan det være smart å la en spillserie få hvile litt slik som dette?