An interview at with studio head and founder Swen Vincke has been posted over at PC Gamer, and while I normally don’t post interviews as news since the interviewee tends to be evasive, this wasn’t the case. A few interesting tidbits about what the developer has in store for Original Sin were let loose, and those still enjoying the game might want to hear them.

First up was the question as to whether Larian was moving on to another title yet or had another one already in development:

Swen Vincke: It’s funny because everybody’s still so focused on doing the patching that we haven’t had time to celebrate yet. Everybody took some breaks to get some sleep, and most of us took a long weekend, but now we’re focusing on the patch, and we’re going to have our first [release] party next week. It will be a big one, and then we’re going to go on a big holiday and then there’s going to be a huge party. Right now, actually, everybody’s like, “Okay, we released, so we continue to work on it.” It’s a rather funny feeling to be honest. We’re very happy obviously.

PCG: It’s the only project that Larian has right now, right? You’re not working on anything else.

Vincke: No. This was all-in for us, so we said, “We have one shot at making a good RPG. This is going to be the one, so we’d better not fuck it up.” That was basically the attitude, so it was stressing. But we’re happy now of course.

Next, they spoke about coming updates for the game and what they would include:

PCG: What kind of things are you looking at in the big update?

Vincke: We basically have two types of things. We’re doing hotfixes where we see problems that we can fix right away for people, and then the patch will contain some extra content. Balancing fixes. We’ll introduce the AI personalities—that was one feature that didn’t make it fully for release. [Right now] you only have no personality or random personality, which is rather clunky to play with, or the loyal personality which basically does everything you do. We will add five or six AI personalities, and they have distinct opinions about things, and so it’s basically your partner. [And] people will be able to create their own personalities.

They make decisions based on certain type of personality, and it makes the game quite different, actually, because then it’s really like playing with a human being, to a certain extent.

PCG: Can you go into a little more detail on the kind of personalities that you’re shipping in the update?

Vincke: We’ll have a knight. That’s what you can imagine. Then we’ll have a rascal, a maniac, a judge— somebody who’s very judgmental—a priest, and a free-spirit, They basically all have different traits that they prefer.

If you put in, let’s say, a judgmental character, who would for instance refuse to hire a companion, that’s a very big impact on your game right there. If you role-play through that, that really changes your game. It’s something that can happen in multiplayer also, right? It’s basically what we’re trying to do. This gives single-players the feeling of what you get in co-op multiplayer, when you deal with the actions of somebody else.

Then perhaps the best piece of news, more content expansions:

PCG: Are there plans for expansions or DLC or massive content updates?

Vincke: We are going to add a number of extra companions. There were planned to be more companions, but just the deadline and production realities, that’s too hard to be able to include this, so that’s going to come in August, the extra companions. They will be probably more fleshed-out than the ones that are in there now, so a lot of effort is being put into that.

Then beyond that, to be honest, I told you at the beginning of our conversation that this was “all-in,” so we didn’t really make any concrete plans. We obviously have lots of ideas, but there are no concrete sense of what we’re going to do, so we’re going to finish this patch, do a couple of more hotfixes and then probably we’re going to take a break, and then I think at that we’re going to spend August figuring out where to next, with the RPG that we’re going to be making. Then we will announce it with a lot of fanfare and so forth.

Divinity is still tearing up the Steam charts as of this writing and it seems Larian Studios is motivated to keep this game fresh with new content in the months to come.