Deep Dive and Hands On with South of Midnight | Official Xbox Podcast

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4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Official Xbox Podcast, we travel to New York City to get hands on with South of Midnight and talk to the devs from Compulsion Games about the story, art, music, and gameplay of their Southern Gothic adventure.

00:00 Introduction

00:36 Art Direction

05:04 Story

10:03 Music and Sound

14:35 Gameplay

25:58 Story of Empathy

27:54 Outro

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0:00.0	Games in this podcast range from E to M.
0:03.9	Welcome to the official Xbox podcast, the only podcast coming to you from inside Xbox.
0:10.0	I'm Lena, and way up there is Jeff.
0:12.2	I can see for miles up here.
0:13.5	Okay, you don't need to rub it in.
0:14.9	Yeah, I'm sorry.
0:15.7	We're actually not at the studio right now.
0:18.0	No, we're in New York, where we're among a number of media and
0:21.5	content creators that are getting to be the first people outside of compulsion games to
0:25.5	actually play South of Midnight a game. I know both of us have been really looking forward to.
0:29.1	Yes, we get to see a lot of cool things, talk to a lot of cool people, which as if right on
0:34.4	cue, we have Whitney Clayton, the art director for South of Midnight.
0:39.1	Hi, Whitney.
0:39.9	Hi.
0:40.9	Hi.
0:41.9	Okay, I have to ask the stop motion.
0:44.5	The very first moment that we saw something
0:46.4	from South of Midnight, you know, we had that trailer.
0:48.5	It was so visually arresting the style and everything.
0:51.8	So I would love to know your journey in creating this world.
0:56.3	Yeah, so I think we just really wanted to be very deliberate with this type of style we were
1:02.1	going to do for the game. So our previous games did have a style, a lot of world building, a lot of
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