It's enough that he doesn't feel safe going back there. Khonsari was branded a traitor to his native Iran, according to some Iranian tabloids. "We have the best Iranian American actors presently working in I would say in the world," Khonsari said of his cast.
Khonsari also recruited a pretty darned professional cast of actors, which includes: Navid Negahban (Homeland, American Sniper), Farshad Farahat (Argo, State of Affairs), Omid Abtahi (Hunger Games, Better Call Saul), Bobby Naderi (Fear the Walking Dead, Taqwacores), Mozhan Marno (House of Cards, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night), Nicholas Guilak (Of Gods and Kings, 24), Mary Apick (Homeland, Beneath The Veil), and Fariborz David Diaan (The Brink, Stoning of Soraya, Weeds). One such contributor is DMZ and Local author Brian Wood, who worked on the script with Khonsari. When asked about the team size for this project, Khonsari told me, "We've been as nimble as eight, and have blown up a much as 24." He estimated that the team is currently around 20-22 staffers. "Most games don't get financed in this way." "We raised the money privately through people who were interested in coming on board as equity investors," he said. Khonsari told me that while the crowdfunding campaign was unsuccessful, it helped Ink Stories get a lot of media attention which led to funding through private investors elsewhere.
Prior to 1979 Revolution, Khonsari worked on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, The Warriors, and provided the voice of The Taken in Alan Wake.Ĭlearly it's looking exponentially more polished than the pre-production footage we saw when Ink Stories launched its ill-fated Kickstarter for 1979. In the meantime, 1979 Revolution has launched a Steam Greenlight campaign, where the following new trailer shows off how the game is shaping up.
Historical episodic adventure 1979 Revolution, a game about the events surrounding Iran's cultural revolution, is now set to release its debut episode, Black Friday, this autumn on PC, Mac, iOS, Android and "consoles".ĭeveloper Ink Stories creative director Navid Khonsari confirmed to Eurogamer that he's in talks with Sony and Microsoft about console releases, but the final details have yet to be sorted.