Metal Gear and Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima has been rethinking his creative process in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the developer said during Thursday’s Summer of Games event.

In an interview with Geoff Keighley, Kojima touched on how his usual process for coming up with a video game idea — namely, trying to predict what the far-off future will look like and wrapping it in the context of entertainment — doesn’t feel quite right since the world went into lockdown.

“In the past, about creating things, I was always thinking about what could happen in society in 5, 10, or 20 years,” Kojima said.

When asked about his next project, Kojima declined to offer details, but said “it won’t be like the past, it won’t be one step at a time.”.

Kojima did however announce Death Stranding: Director’s Cut, coming to PS5, though a release date has not been revealed?