{"id":1537766,"date":"2026-03-27T23:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pssb7vDZFzR78qAfNZbJcX"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:25:18","slug":"zero-parades-devs-knew-they-didnt-want-to-make-another-cop-game-after-disco-elysium-how-people-think-of-the-police-these-days-its-a-bit-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/zero-parades-devs-knew-they-didnt-want-to-make-another-cop-game-after-disco-elysium-how-people-think-of-the-police-these-days-its-a-bit-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Parades devs knew they didn’t want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: ‘How people think of the police these days, it’s a bit different’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While Zero Parades, this year’s RPG from ZA\/UM, is following in Disco Elysium’s footsteps<\/a> in some obvious ways, the similarities could’ve been even more pronounced than the spy thriller that the team ultimately settled on. Early in development, principle writer Siim Sinam\u00e4e told PC Gamer, the plot of Zero Parades was focused more on the game world’s fictional equivalent of the real-life International Money Fund, leading to ideas that “essentially felt like police stories.” <\/p>\n

They decided they needed to do something different.<\/p>\n

“We did a lot of police stories with Disco Elysium,” Sinam\u00e4e said. Indeed, Disco Elysium followed amnesiac detective Harrier Du Bois trying to piece together his lost memory while solving a murder. But ZA\/UM also astutely noticed that the tenor of conversations around cops has changed just a bit<\/em> since 2019, when Disco was released. <\/p>\n

“You know how people think of the police these days, it’s a bit different,” he said. “As well, we wanted to challenge ourselves in a different genre. For us that didn’t mean ‘oh, let’s make a shooter’ or some other type of game, but the writing\u2014let’s change the writing. Espionage, thrillers, are very fruitful genres, and we kind of took it from there.”<\/p>\n

I asked Sinam\u00e4e how his own outlook on the police or politics have changed since he worked on Disco Elysium. “As a poet first and foremost, I think all creative people sustain themselves on whatever the world reflects back to them. And reflections of this day and age are different than the reflections of 1820, 1920, 2020. I would say that personally, if anything, I’m a bit more cynical than I used to be.” <\/p>\n

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