There’s a childlike wonder to Two Point Campus. With its collection of fantastical lessons, it indulges those daydreams of ‘what would you like to be when you grow up?’ and let’s you play those out in silly fashion.
“Kids have these great ideas of what they’re going to become and you never become that, you never really do become someone who rides a rocket ship to the moon,” says Gary Carr, game director at Two Point Studios.
“And in this game we said why not? Why can’t you be fighting dragons? And why can’t you be flying rocket ships or building robots?”
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It’s that mix of fantasy in a relatable yet mundane setting that really gives Two Point Campus (and, by extension, Two Point Hospital) its particular flavour. And after healthcare, education was an obvious next step for the simulation series.
“We’ve all had some sort of experience in education,” says Carr. “We can’t think of a way of making space more interesting or being a superhero, so it’s easy to take the mundane and spin that into something more interesting, but it helps if you’ve had some kind of view on it.”