A funny side bit. When you're actually working on a game, and you're testing your content in-game every day, where everytime you load the game you're playing that main character because it's the default... no matter how good that asset is, the team gets really sick of looking at it, day in and day out. The default player…
With Kay and her pet being obvious riffs on the original characters (Hannah Solo and Nibble-bacca? :P) I wouldn't be surprised if it was a way for lucasfilm/ubisoft to have their cake and eat it too. I suspect that disney/lucasfilm would be extremely protective of licensing the Harrison Ford/Han Solo ip (or any of the…
Ideally, the internal design team should be skilled enough and aware that their choices would resonate with audiences. When consulting its more with professional consultants in the field while taking general feedback from the audience as an approach to engagement. For example I learn a lot from this expression scientist…
Honestly I had hoped that SBI would have put out a PR response and this would not have escalated to the dumpster fire its become. I really tried to reach out to them and help but they really want to fight what they feel is a right wing neo nazi conspiracy to the bitter end. Its interesting to watch it play out. We now do…
*Spoilers for Star Wars Rebels, Mandalorian.etc follow. 1. This hasn't proven to be a problem for the new Indiana Jones game that's coming out. 2. I really do feel that Han Solo requires more stories and that was the plan with the Solo movie. Unfortunately it wasn't very popular though I enjoyed it. Placing it…
I really am intrigued by Abby's design process and I'm looking into more articles and case studies from Naughty dog to understand their design decisions. They did release this documentary about the game, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3C7GMMfDU So I'm going to watch it today and then reply more in depth, since the…