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What Remains of Edith Finch director Ian Dallas reflects on his unforgettable family

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  • What Remains of Edith Finch director Ian Dallas reflects on his unforgettable family

    What Remains of Edith Finch, a surreal anthology of short stories centred around an eccentric, uniquely unlucky family, was borne underwater. Creative director Ian Dallas, best known for the whimsical PS3 curio The Unfinished Swan, previously told us that this follow-up effort was inspired by a scuba diving excursion.
    "We were shooting for this sense of the sublime," Dallas tells me more recently over Skype. "This thing that is simultaneously fearful and overwhelming."
    That's not an easy feeling to capture, but it's one Dallas and company at developer Giant Sparrow achieve in spades. Amusingly, the Santa Monica-based studio's final game features no scuba diving whatsoever. So how did this fanciful familial tale evolve from a subterranean expedition to a collection of weird fiction?
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