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The Medium is developed by Bloober Team,[4] with lead designer Wojciech Piejko and producer Jacek Zieba coming up with the idea in 2012.[9] The core concepts of the game had been about a medium and her abilities to see two worlds simultaneously.[10] Piejko said The Medium imparts the message that "there is no universal truth".[5]

They had originally planned for release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U in 2012, but rendering two point-of-views at the same time was a technical challenge for these platforms, and Bloober Team backed off the idea.[5] In the interveining years, the concept of The Medium became its own type of mythos within Bloober as the company waited for technology to catch up.[10] After Microsoft provided developers with preliminary material on the upcoming capabilities of the Xbox Series X/S consoles (which were released in November 2020), Bloober Team recognized they could now build out The Medium and began development.[10][4]

Initially they approached the game with a first-person perspective, splitting the player's screen in two. After deciding to have Marianne exist in both the real and spirit world as to handle the situation with collisions, they found initial playtesters had difficulty manuevering in this view, often twice going over an area to first focus on one world's view and then to focus on the other. They took cues from Japanese horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil which used fixed cameras and third-person perspective to better present the game for players to see both worlds at the same time while capturing the spirit of these horror games.[10] This also helped to enhance the player's immersion in the game.[5] They maintained this split-screen concept in cutscenes as well, though frequently switching up camera angles. This partially was used to mask unrendered details in some settings, but was also used to keep a sense of unease as when Marianne has a conversation with characters in the spirit world, while her real self is shown interacting with nothing.[10]