The Heart of A Plague Tale: A Visual Making-Of

Serving as a combination of art book and making-of book, the Heart of a Plague Tale collection takes a deep dive into the design, universe, and gameplay mechanics of the world, backed by never-before-released information and comments from the game’s development team.

A Plague Tale: Innocence was a landmark creation in Asobo Studio’s history, giving players around the world a glimpse of the expertise and personality of an obscure design team from Bordeaux. They took a risk by setting the game in medieval France with a complex narrative and ambitious aesthetics - and it paid off. Developing the sequel, A Plague Tale: Requiem, set Asobo against new creative and technical challenges, but their objective remained unchanged: Using video games as a medium to tell a poignant, cruel, and memorable story that, at its heart, is deeply, unabashedly human.

Since launching his YouTube channel in 2011, Benoît "ExServ" Reinier wears many hats, juggling roles as streamer, journalist at Gamekult, author for Third Editions, and digital intermediary. Outside his digital work, he is the co-founder of Les Humains Numeriques, a non-profit that advocates for connecting the digital world to the lived world through education.
He is the author of Third Edition titles Heart of Dead Cells, The Rise of the Witcher, and a French Language book on Diablo.