Since he has all this knowledge, I wondered why Rebellion hasn’t yet made a medieval game.
“Why haven’t I made a game about myself?” Kingsley laughed. “I don’t know, I haven’t really had the opportunity. As you know, I’ve got my own horses and I ride to quite a high level. I can use a sword from horseback. It’s quite a skill, though, and it’s difficult to interpret.
“I know other people have done it… was it Kingdom Come: Deliverance? That was interesting, and it’s pretty close. It’s not quite the same as doing it for real, but I guess not many people know that. I’m probably one of very few people in the games industry who knows what it’s like to ride a horse in armour and hit a target. Maybe I should [do a game about it]. I’d like to. Why not? Yeah.
“We’ve got lots of other plans, and
the 2000AD stuff, but there’s only so many games we can work on. I’d love to do a medieval game.”
Kingsley then began mulling over the setting, and immediately landed on a post-apocalyptic historical period, when Rome withdrew from Britain, leaving it in the hands of local warlords. Infrastructure suffered, civil wars broke out, and it just wasn’t a very nice place to exist. If you see a game about that from Rebellion in future, I’m taking full credit, but I’m not going to square up to Kingsley if he challenges me to a duel over it.
