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Neo Cab devs detail what they're trying to say with the game
Neo Cab is one of the more unique-looking titles heading to the Switch. This story-based game has you taking on the role of a cab driver, learning about the people around you and the city at large as you go. There's a very specific message trying to be conveyed in this game, and creative director Patrick Ewing explained what the team is going for.
"A lot of us used to think -- even though it was naive -- of America as being the land of opportunity and a land where everyone is meant to be equal, but when I got to San Francisco, it was like we're not even pretending any more. We can't take care of people on the ground floor. We wanted to represent that and Lina is kind of in the middle; like 80% of Americans, she's living paycheck to paycheck, but there's a promise and hope.
I feel like I lived the whole tech optimism and naivety angle for many years, where we all just had a blind faith that tech was disruptive, but it always made the world better. A lot of us used to think -- even though it was naive -- of America as being the land of opportunity and a land where everyone is meant to be equal
Now I feel like it's much more nuanced than that. Sometimes tech really does improve the world, and you can even say that overall -- if you squint and step back a bit -- it's always improving things. But at the moment there is so much disruption that I've seen during the years that isn't great."