Meghna Jayanth confirms she's working on Falcon Age dev's new game

Meghna Jayanth, the award-winning writer and narrative designer of games like 80 Days, Sunless Sea, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Sable, has confirmed she’ll be working on the new game by Falcon Age developer Outer Loop.

She told me this during Episode 2 of The New Eurogamer podcast, which was made available to everyone today.

“I have been working on the next Outer Loop game,” she said during our talk. “I can’t really say a lot about it. I can’t even tell you the title, unfortunately. But I think if you caught the Annapurna showcase recently, they teased a little bit of Outer Loop’s new game, so I think I can say from there, there’s skating in it.”

If you watched the Annapurna showcase in the summer, you might have seen Jayanth very briefly appear on the screen, as Outer Loop co-founder Chandana Ekanayake mentioned his writing partner “Meg”. She had worked with the studio before on Falcon Age.

You will also have heard Ekanayake talk a bit about what the game will be: a game about “immigrant culture growing up in the US”, featuring “gossiping aunties and overbearing parents and family pressure”.

In terms of how it plays, and judging by snippets in the video, it seems to be a blend of third-person parts like skating and parkour, and probably other things we haven’t seen yet. The skating looked like a Tony Hawk’s experience, and the parkour wasn’t far off (minus the skateboard).