Mark Foster (Death’s Door’s programmer, writer, and animator) and David Fenn (Death’s Door’s producer, designer, composer, and sound designer) told IGN that with the success of Titan Souls they were able to go on to make their dream game in Death’s Door.

“We’re still quite a small-time but this is definitely the biggest and most ambitious game we’ve done,” Fenn said. “We’ve gone all out with quite an expansive and varied world which we think has its own distinctive vibe and atmosphere throughout. It’s full of little hidden touches [and] big secrets.”

The collected souls of defeated enemies act as currency, and with enough, players can upgrade their crow’s speed, weapons, and other stats in the grayscale hub world called the Hall of Doors, the realm the crows occupy. From there, players can enter doors as they’re unlocked to jump to specific areas in the colorful open world where they’ll fight bosses for souls, encounter kind forest spirits, or run around and try to find the game’s collectibles, Shiny Things.

“If you go and explore after you’ve got a new power, you can find these little trinkets in the game… You get this nice little model to look at that’ll have lore attached to it,” Foster said. “Some of them maybe give you clues that can be used elsewhere for other puzzles and things.”

Foster and Fenn said game franchises like The Legend of Zelda and Dark Souls were inspirations in Death’s Door’s design, along with aesthetic inspiration from Studio Ghibli movies. But, as with Titan Souls, Foster and Fenn said they aimed to design Death’s Door with tight, minimalist, and fast-paced combat.

Death’s Door is making its way to Xbox consoles and PC this summer. For more from the ID@Xbox Twitch Gaming Showcase, be sure to read IGN’s preview of Nobody Saves the World.

Miranda Sanchez is the executive editor of guides at IGN. You can chat with her about video games and fountain pens on Twitter.