Yoan Fanise tells why Road 96 is DigixArt’s next big game

Yoan Fanise‘s indie DigixArt studio has made memorable games like Valiant Hearts, 11-11 Memories Retold, and Lost in Harmony. And Fanise recently revealed at The Game Awards that his next big game is a road-trip title called Road 96.

Montpelier, France-based DigixArt is working away on this procedural narrative adventure. You must escape a country on the brink of collapse. It’s a fictional place, but it looks suspiciously like the United States, and it feels like how the world might have turned out if we had a certain tyrant as a permanent president. Road 96 is a bit of a twist on the old Route 66, and Fanise’s game will make us think about how a country can fall apart to the point where running for the border might be the best option. And oddly enough, now a few different road-trip games are in the works at studios such as Fullbright and others.