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Cosmere.es Interview ()
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Cosmere.es

At the beginning, I thought you were the one just writing in [Moonbreaker], but the other day I saw Dan's newsletter and I think I saw he also kind of collaborated?

Brandon Sanderson

So what happened is I created the world and the characters, and then we were doing these audio dramas. I had never -- from the beginning, I told them I didn't have time to write the audio dramas. And I was expecting them to find somebody to write them. They had real trouble, so I said, "Hey I know someone who's really good at audio. Do you want to meet Dan?" So I introduced them to Dan, and he's been taking my outlines, writing these audio dramas. If you listen to the story of Moonbreaker, it's my outline and Dan's words.

Cosmere.es

And what is from Moonbreaker? What is the thing that you enjoyed the most?

Brandon Sanderson

I enjoyed being able to just worldbuild, and not have to worry about writing a story with it. That's a lot of fun to me. I like writing the stories too, don't get me wrong, but writing stories is a bit more work than worldbuilding is. Worldbuilding's a bit more relaxing. I got to put on that hat and be like a GM again. Back when I was a gamemaster, I didn't have to worry about stories so much. I had to worry about making a cool world for my adventurers to play in. And that was the hat I was wearing.

New York Comic Con 2022 ()
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Questioner

I came here to talk about Moonbreaker. I saw the teaser that you did talking about the lore and audio logs, but we didn't really get a whole lot about the lore itself of Moonbreaker. I was curious if there was anything that you could talk about there, and if there's any crossovers or references to the Cosmere itself.

Brandon Sanderson

Okay, excellent question. Dan and I are working together on a video game called Moonbreaker, which is a tactical minis painting video game. It's really cool; it's on Steam. 

Dan Wells

It's from Unknown Worlds, the company that did Subnautica. This is their new thing. It's in early access now. You can get it on Steam. It is incredibly beautiful and cool. It plays really well. The painting is phenomenal. Brandon did all the worldbuilding and I'm writing all the stories.

Brandon Sanderson

So the question is, "What can we tell you?" The thing is, they won't let us tell anything about the story or lore until it comes out. Video game and movie companies tend to be super tight-lipped. I am pushing on the movie side to be like, "Just let me say stuff, guys." They're like, "No! You can't say anything! If you say things, then the publicity team won't have a job any more, because it's their job."

Dan Wells

The basic premise of it is that there is a star with an atmosphere. So there's hundreds of moons kind of swirling around inside of that. You can fly from one to the other. You know, open air, and different crews of things will fight against each other.

Brandon Sanderson

The physics of that kind of works.

Dan Wells

Yesh. It's space fantasy, so the physics can take a back seat. <laughs>

Brandon Sanderson

What can we say?

Dan Wells

What I know I can tell you, at least structurally, is that every four months they're releasing a new season of the game. So there will be new units added to the game and occasionally new maps and things like that. Season 1, which is what's out right now—the launch season, has three captains, which is like your main character. Then every new season will add a new captain. I just yesterday turned in the first episode of season 2. We're going to have three half-hour audio episodes per season, and so we've introduced the fourth captain now internally.

I don't know what else we're allowed to tell you except that the game is super cool.

Brandon Sanderson

I can tell you this. I came up with a really large-scale overarching plot for everything, and we are not going to get to that, they decided, until we do the backstories of all the captains, which was a smart move. So once you know who all the captains are, then you will find out what the plot of Moonbreaker is.