“It’s not about cities being consumed in fire. “We talked about it, and we said, well, what is the important thing about the end of the world?” says Pinchbeck.
Influenced by science fiction writers John Wyndham and John Christopher, he and his team became interested in the idea of what Brian Aldiss once called the “cosy catastrophe” – a resolutely British idea of the apocalypse, containing very little violence or explosive trauma, experienced by small communities rather than mass populations. Back then, co-founder Dan Pinchbeck had the idea of creating a game about the end of the world, but from a very different perspective than titles like Fallout and Last of Us, with their grand visions of ruined American cities. It’s been three years since The Chinese Room, a tiny studio currently working out of a modest office building in Brighton, started work on Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.
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