Alan Wake (possibly new) development footage

[kanaka]

Loving everything Remedy-related, it was a nice surprise to get this new Alan Wake featurette with Sam Lake from Ars Technica, where he talks a lot about its development, and includes lots of design and debug footage (some of it around the 9:52 minute mark). These War Stories series are always a pleasure to watch:

 

[rewak]

I always wondered what happened with the original open world concept. It's interesting to know that version never really worked or went beyond a rough testing of ideas phase.

 

[DocStatic97]

And yet, that open world idea still lingers around the full game.
You should check out the game with debug camera tools, you'll see almost every zone in the game, completely loaded in a seamless world.