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Speaking to VGC, Dave The Diver creator and newly-appointed CEO of Mintrocket Jaeho Hwang said that he’d like to take the IP into uncharted waters by creating games based around various characters from the first game and seeing what stories could be told about them.
The statements come after Mintrocket’s recent split from parent company Nexon, which granted it independence following the success it had with Dave The Diver.
“I want to expand the Dave the Diver IP itself. I think that’s every director’s dream, since we have a relatable character. But actually, we didn’t go really deep into the personal stories in Dave the Diver, because we wanted to keep the game very casual.”
“So as a director, besides the story DLC that we’re working on right now, I also want to make separate games about each character to show how they met, what they did before coming to the Blue Hole. In that sense, the games’ genres can be different. Maybe one day, if we start to make a Dave’s backstory game, we could make Dave [another profession]. He’s always been a diver, so we really haven’t thought about how we should move with Dave.”
Hwang also signaled a desire for Mintrocket to remain tightly knit and smaller in size, despite the freedom it had now been granted.
“ I think we’ll stay small. I mean, the definition of small can be varied. Dredge, they only have four people on the development team. But I think the 20 to 30 people team is ideal.”
“It’s easier to communicate and easier to be on the same page that way. I think Mintrocket can get bigger in the future in terms of size, if we are confident in what we’re doing right now.”
“But that means we’ll have more teams of similar size, or maybe we’ll start to do some publishing stuff. But it doesn’t mean that we’re going to have a huge 100 people team.”