For the Devs - What was your motivation for starting to create Subnautica?

Casual_PlayerCasual_Player That...is a really good question Join Date: 2016-08-30 Member: 221875Members
edited April 2017 in Subnautica General Discussion
This has intrigued me for quite some time.

Devs, why did you decided to create Subnautica? I mean, could have developed any other project, but why this one? Were there changes to the world since the original concept, or did you manage to stick with your idea during the course of development?

Besides actual fauna and flora, in what else you used as a base to create the world? I know the influence of Natural Selection, but were there any books or movies that gave you guys the idea? For example, Kevin Levine, duringthe interview available on the Bioshock Remastered, said at the time, after System Shock 2 didn't performed well enough, he had this idea for Bioshock starting when he read Ayn Rand's books.
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  • DaveyNYDaveyNY Schenectady, NY Join Date: 2016-08-30 Member: 221903Members
    phantomfinch wrote: »
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    Funny, but probably pretty close to what actually happened...

    Somebody at some point said... "Let's make a Ocean Survival Game" ... and They did.
    B)
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  • garathgarath Texas Join Date: 2017-02-08 Member: 227730Members
    I've been browsing the company website. Wow. Their other game, Natural Selection 2, is radically different than this one.
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  • ShuttleBugShuttleBug USA Join Date: 2017-03-15 Member: 228943Members
    edited April 2017
    garath wrote: »
    I've been browsing the company website. Wow. Their other game, Natural Selection 2, is radically different than this one.

    NS 2: Mulitplayer FPS with aliens

    Subnautica: "If I hear the words GUNS or MULTIPLAYER one more time I'm FINISHED"
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  • 0x6A72320x6A7232 US Join Date: 2016-10-06 Member: 222906Members
    garath wrote: »
    I've been browsing the company website. Wow. Their other game, Natural Selection 2, is radically different than this one.

    If anyone doesn't have it, they should snag it. it's pretty cool!
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  • garathgarath Texas Join Date: 2017-02-08 Member: 227730Members
    edited April 2017
    Thanks for the recommendation. Just bought it. :)

    Need to buy a lot more games so I can catch up with a friend who has like 175 in his library. :)
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    I think he meant Zen of Sudoku guys :trollface:
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  • SkopeSkope Wouldn't you like to know ;) Join Date: 2016-06-07 Member: 218212Members
    Kouji_San wrote: »
    I think he meant Zen of Sudoku guys :trollface:

    I don't know, it sounded like Future Perfect to me. :trollface:
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    <img src="https://forums.unknownworlds.com/resources/emoji/trollface.png&quot; />
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  • Casual_PlayerCasual_Player That...is a really good question Join Date: 2016-08-30 Member: 221875Members
    Yes, jokes aside, I would really like to know how they came up with this world - besides the "Survival in Alien Ocean" thing (not going to deny, because that must have been what started the whole process). From where they got the ideas to work on the elements of the game, and so on.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited April 2017
    Casual_Player wrote: »
    Yes, jokes aside, I would really like to know how they came up with this world - besides the "Survival in Alien Ocean" thing (not going to deny, because that must have been what started the whole process). From where they got the ideas to work on the elements of the game, and so on.

    Cory (@Squeal_Like_A_Pig) kept taking sea creatures and a Hugh he found on the beaches of San Francisco into the office, so my guess is. He is one of the main protagonists in this story...
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  • cheetored20cheetored20 cheetored20 Join Date: 2016-06-14 Member: 218564Members
    I think a part of it was that people wanted to know where the karrar came from, I read somewhere that the hive design was made as if it was a weird sea thingy
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Yep, subnautica is a prelude to Natural Selection from the looks of it
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