Epic's Cliff Bleszinski has updated his developer blog on 1UP.com. In the latest installment, Cliff talks about his experiences designing Gears of War, as well as selling the idea to the gaming powers that be.
When I signed up to be a Game Designer I didn't really realize that a great deal of your job responsibility involves selling your wicked cool new idea to a group of extremely intelligent programmers, artists, and environment builders. Who are usually quite cynical.
It helps to be animated. In figuring out what the player movement set is I've had numerous conversations with Aaron (one of the animators bringing these characters to life) in which I'm outside of his office, back against the wall, wildly pointing a Nerf Gun at him. Or running through the motion capture studio crouched over; trying to show off how I imagine a panicked soldier would haul ass. Or kick a door. Or how you'd open it from the side if you were trying to just creak it open to get a peek at your foe before bursting in with a hail of bullets, cutting them all into tiny chunks of fleshy goodness.
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When I signed up to be a Game Designer I didn't really realize that a great deal of your job responsibility involves selling your wicked cool new idea to a group of extremely intelligent programmers, artists, and environment builders. Who are usually quite cynical.
It helps to be animated. In figuring out what the player movement set is I've had numerous conversations with Aaron (one of the animators bringing these characters to life) in which I'm outside of his office, back against the wall, wildly pointing a Nerf Gun at him. Or running through the motion capture studio crouched over; trying to show off how I imagine a panicked soldier would haul ass. Or kick a door. Or how you'd open it from the side if you were trying to just creak it open to get a peek at your foe before bursting in with a hail of bullets, cutting them all into tiny chunks of fleshy goodness.
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