Gibbons was evasive about the project, stating, ”It’ll have a strong graphic identity. It’s strange - when you get the germ for an idea for something, you can almost touch it. It’s like you can almost hold it.
“It’s going to be something that combines a lot of the things I’m perhaps best known for, which are a design sense and a sense of symbolism and maybe an obsessive attention to background detail.
“If you’re asking, will it look like a Dave Gibbons game, yes it will look like a Dave Gibbons game. There would be no point in Charles (Cecil, Revolution founder) collaborating with me if it was going to look like a Joe Blow game.”
Gibbons had been involved in projects with Revolution before, including a prequel digital comic for Broken Sword: Director’s Cut and contributed to Beneath a Steel Sky.
”(Revolution’s Charles Cecil) developing something (with me) - I really shouldn’t say anything more about it - but it’s something I’m quite excited about and it’s in an area I don’t think has been explored, and it isn’t France, and it isn’t Paris and it isn’t catacombs,” Gibbons hinted, adding, ”With the new game I’m going to be involved from the ground up. I have had story input and the whole thing will have my imprint on it. Even if I don’t hands-on do every bit of artwork, I certainly will direct the look of the whole thing.”
Work on the project will start when Gibbons finishes work on his comic book Secret Service.
”Charles and I have been talking for a while about doing an original game,” he described. “We’ve got a really good idea. He’s been very busy doing these very successful reboots of Broken Sword. I don’t know but I think there might even be another one of those on the way. And I’m busy at the moment working with Mark Miller on Secret Service. But when our works there are finished, something we really want to do is get back together.
“With ideas if you talk about them too early you kill them, you let the air out of the balloon. You say with Batman, I’ve got this great idea for this character called Batman. Oh yeah? What happens? This kid’s parents get killed and then he decides to fight crime. People go, oh. Really?
“Or even with Watchmen: you go, it’s these old superheroes who’ve all retired and one of them gets murdered. It’s sort of intriguing…”
