The Rogue Prince Of Persia Devs Compared Notes With The Lost Crown Team

Summary

• After nearly a decade without a new Prince of Persia, we're suddenly being blessed with two games within a few months.
• As it turns out, Evil Empire and Ubisoft Montpellier worked alongside one another and compared notes on their projects.
• Evil Empire even got to play an alpha version of The Lost Crown just as The Rogue Prince started development.

Evil Empire, the developers behind The Rogue Prince of Persia, compared notes with Ubisoft Montpellier, the team behind The Lost Crown, since the two were being made around the same time.

Up until this year, Prince of Persia has spent more than a decade rotting away in Ubisoft's cupboard despite fans begging to see the series make a return. That wish was already granted incredibly well with Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown a few months ago, but we're already getting a second serving with The Rogue Prince of Persia, a roguelike from the Dead Cells team that was announced last week.

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It's a little wild to see two Prince of Persia games launching within a few months of each other after the series has been next to silent since 2010's underrated The Forgotten Sands, but if it means that we're getting more from one of Ubisoft's best series, I'm all for it. As it turns out, though, there's a nice connection between The Rogue Prince and The Lost Crown, even if they're completely separate games.

Evil Empire Compared Notes With Ubisoft Montpellier For Their Prince Of Persia Games

As reported by Game Rant, Evil Empire and Ubisoft Montpellier actually worked closely together while developing their Prince of Persia games to make sure they weren't doing the same thing as one another and to ensure they were presenting the series in two different ways. This was confirmed by The Rogue Prince of Persia's director Lucie Dewagnier, who said Evil Empire even got to play The Lost Crown during its alpha.

Yeah, we absolutely compared notes. We played their game when they were still in the alpha stages, so it was near the beginning of development for The Rogue Prince of Persia. We communicated with each other regularly to make sure we were not doing the same things, and to take notes on what they were doing and what we were doing to make sure that we were making two different views of the same franchise.

Dewagnier revealed that The Rogue Prince of Persia started development around the time that The Lost Crown was in its alpha stages, which indicates that Ubisoft Montpellier's game was started a fair bit earlier than The Rogue Prince was. With The Rogue Prince of Persia launching in Early Access and The Lost Crown having plenty of content on the way, let's hope that collaboration continues in the future.

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