The singer of the American rock band Imagine Dragons launches Tuesday Last Flaga PC video game inspired by his childhood in the scouts and developed with his brother, manager of the quartet. “It’s not just a passion project, we’ve been working on it for over five years now,” said Dan Reynolds during an online exchange with journalists, a few weeks before the game’s release.
At the head of Night Street Games, a studio of around thirty people that they founded in 2020, Dan and his brother Mac have discreetly worked on a “capture the flag” game where two teams of five players compete online. Objective: hide your own banner as best you can and steal that of your opponents.
A project older than Imagine Dragons
“I grew up in a family of eight boys and one girl, and we were all somewhat geeky kids,” recalls the 38-year-old singer, for whom creating his own video game “was a childhood dream.” At the end of the 2000s, while he was planning to develop his first game with his older brother, he started a university group called Imagine Dragons and “there, it totally exploded”, rewinds this fan of games Starcraft et League of Legends.
Known for internationally successful songs like Believer et ThunderImagine Dragons has since become one of the most followed pop rock groups in the world, totaling more than 74 million albums sold and 160 billion streams, according to its label Warner Music Group. “The last fifteen years have been incredible, but we kept saying ‘what if we started making games together?'” Dan Reynolds continues.
A game that “offers something different”
To imagine this title with colorful graphics and a very “seventies” atmosphere, the two brothers were inspired by their summer vacation at a scout camp, where they played a similar game in the woods. If the game recalls the atmosphere of Fortniteone of the most popular in the world, Mac Reynolds ensures thatLast Flag stands out by prioritizing the capture of objectives over the simple elimination of his opponents.
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The game tackles the very competitive sector of online shooting games, which has seen several big productions in recent years such as Concord et Highguard be disconnected quickly, due to lack of players. But “even if the competition is tough, a new shooter can break through if it offers something different”, wants to believe the manager of Imagine Dragons. A release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles is also planned for later in the year.
