{"id":1545539,"date":"2026-04-05T21:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bLT3pV5KxRgCZUsg5fkgXL"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:00:51","slug":"star-wars-zero-company-writer-wants-its-cast-to-have-real-friction-its-not-a-personal-fantasy-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/star-wars-zero-company-writer-wants-its-cast-to-have-real-friction-its-not-a-personal-fantasy-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Zero Company writer wants its cast to have real friction: &#8216;It&#8217;s not a personal fantasy game&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve played an RPG before, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re familiar with the associated plot clich\u00e9s: golden boy protagonist takes on a death-defying quest, and along the road picks up several total strangers who become his best friends in record time (bonus points if one or a few of them fall in love with the player character). <\/p>\n<p>Star Wars Zero Company bears some resemblance to BioWare&#8217;s classics, but this is where narrative director Aaron Contreras hopes the two diverge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3-WH81_J6Go\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Contreras said as much in a recent interview with PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield. &#8220;This is a game about a team, a team of operators who come from all over, and it&#8217;s not a personal fantasy game,&#8221; Contreras said. &#8220;Hawks isn&#8217;t the lone chosen one who&#8217;s going to step out and do all the things with the swing of their mighty, mighty saber or whatnot. Hawks is a leader, negotiator, has to be cunning, strategic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tactical strategy fantasy. So it had to be about how you manage and lead this team, and how you deal with these different personalities and their strengths and weaknesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You might think of Star Wars as a classic tale of good vs. evil, but Contreras is eager to shake some more moral ambiguity out of the Clone Wars setting\u2014the time before everything was so cut-and-dry as it seems in the original film trilogy. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know the way that these ideologies will shake out,&#8221; said Contreras. &#8220;The dust will settle into an era of Rebels and Empire, of very light and dark, good and evil. But things aren&#8217;t so clear during the Clone Wars era, and that makes for a really interesting opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In-game, that means you&#8217;ll have to consider interpersonal conflicts and different characters&#8217; worldviews as you make the tough calls; Contreras reckons it&#8217;s all &#8220;part of the fantasy of being a leader.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That materializes in the bond system, wherein squadmates form relationships and grow closer the more missions they go on together. While this doesn&#8217;t mean you can go around making everyone love you, Contreras did say certain characters could catch feelings for each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re gonna have people with really strong opinions about some questions, and you can&#8217;t make everybody happy. So finding that as a feature was really key for us as a way to force setbacks in otherwise-upward movement in the bond system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Zero Company in Ted&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/strategy\/star-wars-zero-company-is-more-than-just-star-wars-xcom-it-feels-like-mass-effect-but-with-turn-based-tactics-and-permadeath\/\" target=\"_blank\">full feature<\/a> on the upcoming game, which has commentary from Contreras and other developers at Bit Reactor. You can also check out our explainer which gives you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/strategy\/star-wars-zero-company-guide\/\">everything you need to know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"548837e7-d23f-45c0-b5a7-eb2f9aabcb97\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/star-wars-zero-company-writer-wants-its-cast-to-have-real-friction-its-not-a-personal-fantasy-game.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"548837e7-d23f-45c0-b5a7-eb2f9aabcb97\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/star-wars-zero-company-writer-wants-its-cast-to-have-real-friction-its-not-a-personal-fantasy-game\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve played an RPG before, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re familiar with the associated plot clich\u00e9s: golden boy protagonist takes on a death-defying quest, and along the road picks up several total strangers who become his best friends in record time (bonus points if one or a few of them fall in love with the player character). Star Wars Zero Company bears some resemblance to BioWare&#8217;s classics, but this is where narrative director Aaron Contreras hopes the two diverge. Contreras said as much in a recent interview with PC Gamer associate editor Ted Litchfield. &#8220;This is a game about a team, a team of operators who come from all over, and it&#8217;s not a personal fantasy game,&#8221; Contreras said. &#8220;Hawks isn&#8217;t the lone chosen one who&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/star-wars-zero-company-writer-wants-its-cast-to-have-real-friction-its-not-a-personal-fantasy-game\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1545540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,34],"class_list":["post-1545539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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