The Untold History of Arkane: Dishonored / Prey / Ravenholm / LMNO / The Crossing

The hurricane was a dream for me when I was uh, you know, maybe 20, something that eventually had to start and it went much further than anyone could imagine and it was really a fan journey for me, you know, it was a fan of the world. Ultima Richard Garriott, so they were Sex Harvey here, so what I wanted was to be a part of these people who were making these great games and who have my way of contributing. Our cane is different from other studios for several reasons, they have offices in León. and Austin two cultures that have as much in common as blue cheese and jeans make complex games games that require players' attention games that are hard to make and even harder to market games that no other triple-a studio seems to want to make You see, Arkane Studios was founded in 1999 by Frenchman Raphaël Colantonio, a fan of Origin Systems and Looking Glass Studios who wanted to create his own immersive Sims.

He settled with a handful of friends in his native Leona, a hotbed of developing young talent. contained the headquarters of the once-mighty computer graphics, today we know them as the creators of the popular disgraced franchise and

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to 2017's System Shock homage, but these games are the triumphant third act of a frenetic 20-year story to tell the tale. How we got to where we are today, we will have to go much deeper for this documentary. We traveled to Lyon, France and Austin, Texas, to spend time with both teams and met with their founder remotely via video chat.

Our mission is to discover what it is about Arcana that makes them so unique, how they went from developing first-person fantasy games to some of the most complex and polished triple-A games in recent memory, and to shed light on the darkest era from the studio where he created some of his most interesting projects, none of which saw the light of day, this is international people, so unless you speak French and English, you will want to put subtitles, press the gear button below to put subtitles that work. the best to you, okay you are ready, our story begins with the game that many of you who have never played and probably many of you have not even heard of it.

I have to sit through my own eyes, you know, 20 years. I was a lot more naive before, you know, I was determined to get this game right, sketch art artists and then if it works I was going to do more of these, but that was the other thing, that was the only thing I cared about. I did not do it. worrying about that, cool, it didn't make any money or anything, so what happened was I was working for a small company that was providing me with some work for the rats. I gathered some other people who were excited to join that adventure, I think.

The reason they joined me is because they had the same name as me, as a beginner, since I, no experienced person would have joined this project, obviously, so they were very smart, of course, they were smart, but they still called themselves, you know, like us. I want to do that, it's cool, like an RPG, the US has been doing it you know, and we're all for people talking about that detail and it'll be amazing and we'll do all these things, it'll be like Ultima, etc and while we do it, oh my god, it will never work.

ARC's fatalis was an impressive game considering the size of the team they created, an homage to Ultima Underworld, it was also set entirely in an underground dungeon, the game's title is Latin for fatal fortress as underworld, it was a non-linear simulation that was It delighted with emergent gameplay, it was influential in its own right. Those of you who watched our documentary on the Witness may remember his emote system that had the player draw shapes to cast spells thanks to the success of arcane in recent years. Arcs fatalis has become something of a cult classic, but the truth is that it was. a commercial failure for the studio that came, few people bought it and no one wanted a sequel, but otherwise it was meant to be the Arts sequel, which at the beginning you know we had direct deaths in shipping, we were very proud of it, finally Do you know if it's in sales? today, but back then I didn't do well commercially, but you know, doing something or something that didn't make money we would have it, but no editor we were talking to was really interested in the arts, but they like the equipment and they like it .

We wanted to use our talents to adapt to one of their existing franchises, so yeah, that was the last thing we wanted to do, feel like we started arcane, we're like those warriors, we'll just make what we want, great games for players. We don't care about the money, I mean, of course we need the money to be able to make the next one, but it's not that we're not going to chase the money, it's more about what's artistically interesting to us, part of me. wanting to even work on games was actually seeing this in this edition of Dark Messiah there's a really nice realization where you can see, you know, Raph is yen and all these people talking about what it takes to make a game like This is why the one we used the Source engine was kind of an accident.

A few years ago when we launched Arts Batali, we were showing the game at e3 for Xbox and Valve came to our booth and just to say hi. and saying that to tell us that they liked the game a little later we were starting our own engine for the next game that would become doc Messiah and while we were doing this we saw this engine at the same time. the demos that came out for Half-Life 2 and we were very impressed with that, of course, yeah, it was a super small team at the time. I worked remotely from home for a while and then I moved to France and was in Lyon with Those guys in the studio were kind of a pirate ship in those days and we had a guy called Laurent who walked around in a mismatched olive green color. with his shoes and looked like a French revolutionary.

He did level design. I worked. in the mansion where I worked in the crypts, the necropolis there were many dead things back then, that symmetry, personal claim, a dc-dc scheme, the confident culture is aware of the mood of the acts, still in Kodak Messiah HDTV Sierra. I just promised even a new motivation for my visa for the first passenger if you fly from them are KVM to - Shiva have sex with me Selassie Tampa special Stevo master projected plan a TPA me Seville demos of Source engine look desire for shark attack I cut it with cooperage where is the promise of hosting will GOG food one of my clearest memories was I heard this crazy laughter start and I couldn't understand what was going on and that was the moment they realized there was a mistake where ran that and they hit this piece of ice and they just went flying off the cliffs and everyone was screaming about it and of course that's what we do in our pain - it became a feature, so we found ourselves heading towards because we were like A few weeks into sinking, we find that we have to accept putting our game on someone else's dress and modifying it a little to make it more accessible, etc.

I was refundable, so we did it because almost the alternative was Bethesda, the van. one who saw the game like two weeks before Ubisoft signed it, said, give me two weeks and then you call me, oh, email me like a day after I signed the results. I could not wait any longer. I was there. having blood like that to do it, that's all, but eventually perfect, it would have been in arcs for Thomas at the time or he wouldn't have been a Dark Messiah, it just hit the mark for me as something where I was in a world that was a I kind of improvised something a little more fantastical, but it was first person and I could throw people into things, I could throw people into spikes, I could set people on fire, I could throw people off buildings and no game would let me. had been allowed to do that before, it was always like that. just shooting people shooting people is fun, but not as fun as feeling like you're having a physical effect on what's happening to your enemy.

It's better to kick in a video game, maybe yes, I would say yes, the design tenants were in the era where we just thought, let's do what Looking Glass Studios does, let's continue we're really just trying to say yes to the player, make sure that there were many ways to approach any given obstacle or many different solutions, yes, I remember Dark Messiah being like that. a strange game because the story felt so disconnected from the action that I would have happily taken the game without the story and it's funny to me that my love affair with arcane started with the game, not the Dark Messiah story, I mean, Playing it again, it's a strange game, but the physicality of it felt great and there was something really fun about it that I loved, there was something about the fact that you could walk into a combat encounter and it wouldn't matter if you were good at shooting. head or not, what mattered.

Could I use my environment to my advantage? So I felt a little more creative, cerebral, playful and fun, and it makes you feel smart. I felt so smart when I kicked people into spikes because I decided that their spikes have an enemy I can fix. We were really behind in production and wanted more interactivity with the environment, so I remember the lead level designer at the time and Christophe, who was a great guy, just coming out of the room and saying what increases everywhere afterwards of the launch. from Dark Messiah Raphael would leave Leon to establish a sister studio in the house of the immersive Sims Austin Texas it was here that Richard Garriott's origin was based it was here that the deus ex ion storm was developed with that in mind he began to establish his Para dream team, brought in Antony, who, upon returning from Lyon, hired strong people like Ricardo Bayer and Steven Hurd and eventually hooked up with an old acquaintance, Harvey Smith, okay, let's be broad, when did you join the studio ?

Where did you work before? Yes, I got into games. 1993 I started at Origin, known for the Ultima and Wing Commander games, but I went there because they had a partnership with Looking Glass, they had published Underworld, which was my favorite game of all time. I was able to work with them on System Shock the. I followed up on that and it was AI that defined my career, it was exactly what I'm in love with. I was into Ion Storm in Deus Ex 1 and 2 for 6 years, so I got to Arcane in 2008. I think so. been there, been here for 12 years, around this same time, Half-Life 2 art director Victor Antonov was moving from Seattle to Paris, at which point he began a long and fruitful relationship collaborating with our Kane in Lyon in any other documentary about arcane this is where we talk about the development of Dishonored.

Leon and Austin's teams collaborated across continents to create their smash hit because that's been the story so far. The challenge of telling the story about arcane is that there is a significant blind man. place in the studio's

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, a period of time in which that company struggles to release anything, taking on work-for-hire projects, helping out on other studio games, trying to finance passion projects, and diving into some truly fascinating collaborations, until now It's been impossible to chart the creative growth of this studio from making games like Arcs and Dark Messiah to the commercial and critical success of Dishonored, but thanks to a lot of people we can finally connect the Archein of yesteryear with the Arcana of today to shine. . shed light on three never-before-seen games that were critical chapters in this studio's development, a groundbreaking multiplayer shooter, a collaboration with Steven Spielberg, and an unreleased chapter in one of the most popular gaming franchises.

Alright folks, this one goes some places in the single-player experience takes you through eight hours of intense FPS action and that happens within a compelling world designed and directed by Half-Life art director Victor Antonov. 2. Yeah, I mean, those three projects come with a lot of painful nostalgia and all of them for different reasons, let me know what marked the end of the crossover. In fact, I still don't know if I can mention that it took so long for the editor to do it, but I want the robot to sign this agreement. It is very, very terrible to deal with the editor for the crossover and the confreres. they were the worst negotiation or the best they ever had is a really ruthless technique where they would only allow you to talk to them every week or two weeks, each time it was like in increments of more than two weeks and each time we had something to say to them. about something they would go back to in the new version of the contract that was more just responding when you have your fingers stuck in the door for so long, it's pretty painful and that's why we lost about a million dollars in this misadventure with the

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to hold the people we don't need to fire, we don't fire anymore, we still think we'll sign this deal and we're dead, that's how much we want to make that game, we're really cool, you know us, we found a unique feature andincredible.

The game is something we call crossplayer that merges single player with multiplayer. You can check the crossplayer option at any time during your story to allow other players with a comparable skill level to yours to join your game and take possession of your enemies. This feature adds a new dimension of fun never before seen in any game the possibility implies symmetry don't say where was your first fortunately in OCAD she put a yellow poplar party that please release - ah, a blue tone on tone that mm is varied or satin Cocktail countries where Stasia is applied, I will repeat the launch of an anti-labor music, a lip update on the playback lumens is quite under the condemnation of a tone stack and gives us the long-term performance at the peak of Tom, every Tom, please, Oh, s T on plus you.

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Diamond V Pella Memphis on lockout is a state record, overall playing both sides through the player experience is equally fun and challenging and unfortunately we are at a publisher that was so close to signing and trading so horribly and I did not know that. to be happy in this situation so many times and the NDA came out with Doug Church with Harvey and my guru in terms of those types of games that you can buy and hey guys, here you have some capacity right now. Looking for Cody, he hit her to do that game, Steven Spielberg and I was like, wow, that's not the main thing I want to do right now, but frankly, at this point, the torture of those guests was so bad that I would love tell them no.

I would love to tell you. not to them a few days before the day we were supposed to sign they have delivered to us I do it because I always go out of business and this at least allows us to make some kind of

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although it was not the exact one on one end but, frankly, it would have been the kiss of death because the budget was much less than what we needed and I remember the day we said no and your euphoria at that and it was very satisfying to see and it was great.

Even though I wasn't personally a big part of it, it was because Doug and Randy were running this game, so what I was doing, you know, lending capacity, it made my company with all the great designers, great artists, great, you know we had fast programmers. so it was good for everyone, yeah, okay, don't do it for Jeremy's news, because for our quick script I keep walking, feminine energy and it's like I wanted Ruth to brag about Los Angeles, we don't see Puscifer from the front , boom blox in a passport she was the improved project Phil mix in the traffic monkeys, that is, the matrix will meet with Tim, the specialist who I assumed normally not mmm the coke was the junction point of the valve / - is well, let's go to church, this means that a bigger war is loud, Franco takes on the kind of person in first person combat level design Boone the reality RPG me to the third game in kit, etc.

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One such game is 2008's Boom Blox, originally codenamed PQRS and which was a novel mix of Jenga and Tetris blew up, had good reviews and sold well when they hit the market, unfortunately LMNO never did and it was canceled much earlier in its development than the crossover, so the portion of the game that exists today is much coarser than you. You're probably used to seeing that it was a game based on accompanying an AI character who was on the run from the law. A short but dense experience with a story that changed depending on your relationship with Eve.

Many impressive qualities of the game can also be lost. time, given how far games have come today, the expressive visuals and animations are truly advanced for the time when games like Assassin's Creed had not yet popularized parkour and the idea of ​​a first-person game without shootouts, a Spielberg's requirement was only in its infancy, it's cute anti-semitic first-person combat, I don't know, I found stages and one is if we know a person on average kuba effigy, make sure the gun can explode, one is a sensible position in Happy Days oh well, I don't see a way to deal with every choice or combat animosity towards Maria t-tom a lot of individual pain radhika a little less restlessness true, so honestly she laughs filmography the food catalyzed by the character's propeller I assumed that I ever lose a partner in Fantasia Akira we know that these are to obtain the maximum possible benefit Kunis it what sends them to Cuba in a reciprocity fair, many veterans need the truth, the information helps the fattest senseless in Sony's problems is ex prima, as if dissolved in case some mode of visa chakra chakra feeling of emotion of Oneidas in ordinary pronunciations Example of agility of Normandy in excess my inclusion see profits consumed from the bathroom quickly beretta giving mobility I am pure Ramírez edge fanciful specificity chase the park wa salaam all the photos of the color of your hair in American sounds book of foxe edible ailment own functional that will be heaven home causing seizures media like our quickest change to show the zipper judicata gypsy tiwanaku click in the protected kannada to dream come true truly study can appear exact function long door - Latoya there is no moon character click on the Collegium Bravo etc. as difficult as just a book uji non-linear Oh trav even opens a step once novella and jean mr. wallet stained back I know Steve, I am the most inexperienced exception in a federal three spade sticker from Jakarta, a big boy and I cry and ask him for an advantage on the shore, not only the party for the futon dress for subsidies, I see or come out demon or monkey idiot affiliated mineral like big how to fill a book incited to a real tire store the example of Neukom the nerdiest the station service body we couldn't abuse women 22 on foot to face it you trees from Joshua, sir to, while your dear Eva more takashima, look at me Moab, come on, come on next to a man in the hole we made tons of photo ID, you can't prevail, but for class, that's what it's about to the movement of the body with Tara, well, it is a configuration, an anecdote constructed in a vacuum is applied, an Apache man where the children, when they meet Switzer, lead with their show. pray sex video Volvo Diaz feedback you know Alessandra sees children as typhoon aleikum song feeds kami in the local GL opposite to - the speed of return infidelity reference photo of the crazy kami important areas multiple civilizations power Allah - modalism Allah it will appeal possible future station Donna Donna 11 The feedback from DoDEA is a soft clue that the director manages to believe that there is a space for the actor.

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We were at a restaurant at the time called Bartlett's, which is overpriced but has pretty good burgers and sandwiches in particular, that rat really likes it. We were celebrating the signing of what ended up being a pretty minor deal for us and our stick was twitching like a bunch of different things at once and I remember a raft like you know took the call at the table and this whole demeanor changed. You couldn't hear anyone at the table and it was like oh yeah, hey, what really, really, really, and it was like he walked away from the table at that point and I was like, oh, and that led me to this, It's terrible, you know?

Of course, we rolled with the punches, everything turned out fine, but it led to a big joke. Two years later we had signed the deal with Bethesda and said yes, this is amazing and one day we were sitting there and the RAF faked a call from Todd. bonds how long he really, really talks and he does the exact same thing and I remember my stomach dropped, like you know, I was like, hey, hang up the phone and I started laughing, I was like, you know, it's like this, this terrible moment we used. prank each other in a terrible way like that, that's probably what half of the crazy people are doing, but it was funny in hindsight, you know, he was a monster while public information about the crossover is weird, anon LMNO Even weirder, the next project Arcano is working on.

It is so shrouded in secrecy that most fans of the franchise in which it was set have never heard of it, much to the disappointment of the team in León, it has never been seen before, but its chapter in the evolution of the arcane is crucial. , never had a commercial. title but within arcane they refer to it with a single word raven home in a 2015 Game Informer interview, the wire inspectors talked about an episode of Half-Life 2 that he and his team at Junction Point had been working on , said it contained a magnetic gun that wasValve had made a completely different menace and it was actually free for him to use.

The Junction would never finish this game, but the prototype they created would eventually find its way into the arcane once Valve hired them to create their own episode once again. Warren Spector was passing the baton for his immersive simulation protégés where I walked away from a magnetic

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story that I can only Imagine what it must feel like to work on such an exciting project and put so much creative effort into it only to never be able to talk about it.

Raven Home left a great impression on our cane. It is a fundamental part of his story, but one. That could be so easily lost to time maybe that's why one of the first alpha versions of the game is on a computer on our stick. It's an early release with a lot of unfinished levels and rough edges, but with that unmistakable halfway feel thanks to the power of Valve's Source engine, I was told a few weeks into starting, new employees often get a tap on the shoulder and me. I reached out for the chance to touch it with the blessing of our cane and valve before we delved into the design philosophy of our Ravenholm canes.

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For your part, why do you think they decided not to put in so much effort, especially considering that they are very advanced? I think Francis' team never really accepted the Ravenholm ending and I think they made too much of it, yeah, frankly, I just think it was a business. It was and that's what I told everyone because they kept asking me that Raph was going to be something more and I think Valve was trying to find a way to make episodic content that made financial sense for them and it was very difficult for them to develop them even internally. because costs are in equipment and just like math, the economics of such an episode had to make sense and we were cheap compared to them, we had potential and you know, the trade. with the tribe with some other teams as well and the plan was, you know, if we throw that amount of money into the Internet, so Danny and it works and it's good enough because they were also looking for conversation quality, of course, you know, it try then.

It's good, so they tried things and then we were late. What you saw was really great to finish it and complete it, which will probably take another year and maybe at least it will be an amount. of money or less, a little less, but then you look at how much it doesn't cost and when it changes it doesn't make as much sense anymore. I think the reason the French team responded so poorly was that we were extremely emotionally involved we were all friends we thought you liked us you know what kind of things you do great Tony passage area reprimanded in just an idea appears Sergi really develops continues Absalon lo shows Athena school I don't know it also comes in diesel, friend in this group, it is a continuation during these three projects.

Arcane frequently worked for larger jobs on other games, some of which have been publicly credited and some of which have not. Rafael's US base helped him secure these collaborations and work on a contract basis. concerts in studios in the USA, while the team in France had lower development costs thanks to the economic conditions of that time, surely after that Messiah, since it did not turn out exactly the way we wanted, we had to change possibly two jobs more to work as contractors for editors, but they reduced the skills of a stripper, memory of it, laboratory jeet anecdotes, example, WebLogic especially recognizes that we equate the long sole with the strange Conor, if there are no real valleys of a valley of Mississippi other than HD, they differ in a very similar facial decoration, you have a population with a comedy message, most likely she would Appreciate a Tuesday, in addition, the highest level is messy, perhaps a continuous autumn perfectionist, the visual novel about it with Rajesh Khanna Upshaw is common at a train station or actually varies gradually depending on a very, very, very energetic Newtonian laugh, in unison. create an animation laboratory big sister little sister very good design a new state level design a level architecture yes, well, supernova or not, in which part do more evil, ah excessive, it becomes a prison terminal, usually a shitty package, so we had a really good couple of collaborations. between I would say 2006 and 2009, but in 2008-9 there was a financial crisis that affected all the big publishers, especially the ones that were public, you know, and they had stagnation problems, and that was the case with the Elemento features of the project with yes and that. consider the project for financial reasons, which is fine, but it was very good for us and suddenly we had like 30 or 40 developers without any projects and we were independent, so we were super fragile, so we could say maybe we can pay you for three months or six. months, but after that we don't know, so it was very urgent to find a new project and at that time I think it was difficult who did an interview to surprise by saying that yes, we have met many good collaborations, but right now we will never tag available equipment , so you know it was kind of a call for help and at some point Bethesda Dynamics came to us and said, "Hey, we think you're good at that and we have some ideas.

I like your concept, maybe you could work on it." As a contractor, the Bethesda game page for our Kane wasa thief-style experience set in medieval Japan, a game where you played as a super ninja running around in unreal with the title

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, but they wouldn't be working under contract for long. The parent company of Bethesda. ZeniMax was in an expansion phase after acquiring its software and raised the idea of ​​acquiring arcane after years of struggling to finance projects and make the games they wanted, it seems that in the end it was not such a difficult decision, companies spend an amount excessive. spending a lot of time with a group of five lawyers and corporate oxygen, not only trying to put you on the spot so that you can't reach a good agreement that is mutually beneficial, but also nickel and diming you so many times that it's a bad game because you get to the end, you don't have enough money to finish the game and everyone is unhappy and that's why I think when Raph and I started working with Todd Vaughn because it was orders of magnitude more direct and a smaller group of people with fewer layers The company is clearer about what the goal was, regardless of what you may think from the outside, it is a group of people dedicated to creating the best experiences for players, it is not publicly traded, it is in the hands of a smaller group of people and when you need to talk to someone.

You talk to a handful of people, it's not clear until you've worked with a bunch of editors and you've sat in a bunch of meetings and you've done a bunch of bizdev and you've released games and you've released crazy stuff. cool creative ideas that you and Jean are excited about tap into subgenres that haven't always been very profitable and you're pitching them to MBAs, accountants, lawyers, marketing people, until you've done that, you can't possibly appreciate what it's like. when you actually sit on the other side of the table. and you connect with some people and then you realize okay, this is where I'm going to do good things.

I never regret having joined the group. There were many people there who consider my friends very small people, they respect them and allow it. to do things that we couldn't have done with any other culture, as Harvey said, frankly, our games are weird, they're hard to sell, they're hard to understand and to have a group that had the money and the nerves to believe in us and waited for see it happen and then say it right, they were marketed pretty well, yeah, it was anything goes. This acquisition was important to our Keynes leadership for two reasons: One, Bethesda was willing to fund the team longer than any third-party publisher. had been up until that point to give the team the time to create the kind of complex simulations they always wanted, and perhaps most importantly, it allowed people like Raph to focus on game design again, so much of the team's time and energy team had been spent on business meetings pitching ideas bringing together disgraced prototypes it would be the first game on which the entire team could focus creatively the name remained but the Japanese setting didn't they chose an inspiration a little closer to London which would eventually be would transform into a world of its own, this international team worked almost around the clock.

Austin woke up just as the French team returned from lunch to a 24-hour webcam connecting the two studios, allowing team members from around the world to drop by and ask questions as they needed. the pieces were now in place experience in world design and movement thanks to their work on the crossover more knowledgeable about non-lethal combat thanks to their experience developing lMNO and eager to prove themselves after the loss of Ravenholm Arkane began Studios Dishonored was Harvey and the RAF were Here Quinn was here Anthony was here and an engineer who was with us on Dishonored called Kane was here and I was employee number six.

I don't really know, the whole team says I think we had 22 or 23 people working in Austin and then Leon was probably something similar. I think Leon was probably just guessing that 40-50 was generally a relatively small team for the size of the game we made. Some of these are not in the challenge around the block party passenger that Paulo passed by. but would you know that in the wrong but a fool generates a simple - just come on boy, I actually did ityes, from FLD in the swamp, that's why we'll take a sabbatical, every resident will move techno padam and focus high for Santa It's optional, just to check for ladies.

I know I'll be a poor Uncle Casey, if nothing else to do it, they were picking the show. to connect why the general alcohol Kalyan and the train hotel doctor who did not give the opposite concept with the example, on the contrary, they need a positive NPC, not a shepherd pattern, a completely intelligible electronic person, Ashley, a machine, O'Connell player, such a desperate kiss, thank you sir, it's being more outside, you know? depakote Palio, you cry for purposes related to just a little naughty for PO pilot technology and I have allocated a lot for diplomacy politically, so, if you have played with my upper body, you should come to me, so yes, when add something It's a kind of systemic feature of the game that can extend to other areas and there are super simple examples, like we wanted to make a non-lethal game where you could put people to sleep and put them in a bed or in the rafters and then In theory, we'd wake up later and we hadn't killed anyone, but we also had these plague rats that would sometimes find the bodies and consume them because they were sleeping and that wasn't initially an intention, you know?

So we had to try to figure out how to disable that so as not to invalidate the player's non-lethal path that you know or that you did. Is the player's bill to blame for that? There was a moment pretty late in development when I realized he was sitting there and I thought about it for a moment. Meanwhile, I looked at Raph and thought, "You know, because of the strong stealth component here, you never have to kill a guard, which means we actually have about ten, I think it was nine or ten assassination targets and if we could find a way to eliminate each one of them without killing them, then we could literally do this whole alternative system where this game can be played non-lethally E and Raph was like, "wow, that would be cool, but it would be really really hard. given all the scripts involved and how not to assassinate an assassination target and I was like give me half a day and then we'll have a meeting and then I sat down and it was very simple, I just wrote down the 9 or 10 names of the targets of the murder and I just wrote on the side like you know one of them was taken to prison, you know another one was stripped of his title in position after half a day of thinking about it by kicking him, we had a list of at least half of them were good and the other half were a little wobbly and immediately someone looked down, I don't remember who was rich Wilson or Riccardo the bear or one of them, but they looked down and said in the religious case, what if there was?

It was a mark that the religious had and if they marked you with it you were untouchable, no one was allowed to talk to you, give you shelter, give you food, employ you or whatever the heretics marked it, eventually we called it and it was like that's a lot better than the idea I wrote down, let's adopt it immediately and shortly after for Dishonored one in dishonor two we came up with all these slightly perverse alternative resolutions, like the two guys who would hire people and put them to work on their minds, the two aristocrats, you can have them take their heads off, shave them, cut out their tongues and put them to work on their own minds and no one believes they're the Pendleton brothers, you know, that was it. as one of them and that's one that resonated with people, you know, we and I still hear people talk about it, some of them are quite trivial to achieve as alternative results somewhere much more difficult that requires a little scene like the one you know.

Overseer Campbell in a chair with the mark of heretics marking his face and altering his skin with the decal on his face, and that's a good example of a feature that I don't think happens in most crazy games and it's kind of So. of the defining characteristics of Dishonor, yeah, right, it ended up being that way when we discovered that something was fun and then we thought, well, let's do that flicker. It was a good example of that in Dishonored, which started out as having the cost and a cooldown and all this kind of stuff was optional and I and I and I remember throwing my hands up in the air and saying, we can't do this, we can't. allowing Blanc to be limited as this player should be. flashing everywhere Time warp was a beast of a feature to try to achieve, it was really complicated and probably what we shipped is actually probably more complicated than people think, it's very complex because we had to split the time into what The world was experiencing and what the player was experiencing, so when you activate that power, the world slows down, the player can slow down a little bit and then when you interact with something, you have to throw it and you know that, out of that time , the world. he's experiencing the same thing that Corvo is experiencing and then when you stop interacting with him, he falls back into that other space-time and as part of that, if he bumps into something along the way, it'll knock him out and then they'll fall back down. together and that allows you to do things like you know if you throw a box in warp time when if you throw it in the air it will just stop if you throw it but it happens that maybe they hit another box.

They'll both fall a little bit before stopping and that's what allows you to do things like shoot the crossbow, see that arrow hanging in the air and then walk up and just give it a little hit and it'll go flying, you know, like 20 more. feet and it was very difficult to get that to work on everything that almost every game system had to know at the same time, so it was all our work that we did, even after we wrote that the power still had to be tied to that. We had a problem once we discovered early on that you could throw something in the air and ride on it.

It was still floating in the air and then pick it up from under your feet, throw it back, get on. play it again and you could go everywhere, you know, sometimes the little things that happen as part of our explorations and just playing the game and experiencing it for ourselves, we stumble upon things that are unexpected, but you have to wonder , did you know? do for the player experience, you know? Does it improve things? You know? Does it improve it in any way? and a lot of times we run into things like that that do it and then the decisions turn around the discussion and now it's not about how to fix that it's about what do we have to do to make that real, someone actually came back to your

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original and in the opening scene where you're supposed to go up and meet the Empress and dad shows up and murders the lord they use. some feats to get to the top of some of the collision volumes that were on the map before something happened they managed to walk and get to the building that doubts and the murderers appear, they got to where they show Doubt actually appeared and the player fought and killed died before he had a chance to kill the Empress and the game just gracefully stopped for a second and then faded to black.

You're kidding, game's over, you win. Wow, yes, total surprise as if not. need for the second game and DLC, job done, story over Wow, yeah, that was always for later, yeah, that was, that was a big surprise, do you know why it faded to black? I just had no idea where we were at that point. We were so busy with the dams and stuff that we had that we didn't really go back and try to figure out why the script did that, but it was impressive that it actually handled it when Dishonored was released. Arcane had already existed. for 12 years, but nothing they had done before came close to this impact and as fruitful as the continental collaboration had been, it had been exhausting for both teams and both Harvey and Rav were pointing in different creative directions, so they decided to split the teams. once again and focus on two different projects, Harvey would move to Leo and work on a Dishonored sequel, while Raph would lead the team in Austin and make a spiritual successor to both System Shock and his first game, but instead of flooding the underground dungeon, He did well, on the contrary, I think the idea of ​​Nugget was like making something more like the Fatalis arts instead of a level-based, quest-based game, like it was a big contained structure, like a dungeon or a spaceship or a big...

An ass building or a city, you know, kind of like a space that wasn't completely linear and the way Dishonored is right in terms of the mission sequence, eventually we'll come up with something like that, let's do the sci-fi version of this on the space station. Raph started working on a speech where one of the main conceits he wanted to make was the whole mind games thing, like what you see, you can't trust.exactly what you see, so he had a very detailed opening speech. Of that, within the first ten minutes of the sentence, I remember being on a plane in anger and he had outlined part of the entire opening section when Morgan goes to his first day of work.

The tests were originally supposed to be a kind of parkour test. they were a little more physically oriented and that changed over time and then the mimicry fails and you wake up and it's the same day again and that was from the beginning it never changed one of the limitations it's one of the values ​​we removed It was like if the players' powers, due to our fiction, came from aliens. Anything we come up with for an alien there has to be a version that the player can use too for it to be cool, but it was a huge pain in the ass. the ass too because you know you could just brainstorm like Oh, wouldn't this be a cool power, but then we think and inside the player gets a version of that, so what does that look like?

You know the imitation, so yeah, that's what I drove, it's like you know initially the imitation was actually the bipedal human-like ghost, you know, I think we wrapped an idea as a creature that could like, you know, disguise itself. or whatever and then as we talked we said, well, let's do it. Let's make it not bespoke or scripted, let's make it truly systemic. We have a lot of physical objects in the game. Why not let the creature decide what it wants to imitate and set some rules? You know Haughton and what his reach is. es and stuff like that but then we were like guys this means the player can also do that like your player can turn into a cup and roll on the ground we were like aha and that was like a big phenomenon especially in technology . side they were on, you know they were like the players turned into a pen and fell through the floor and you know, because all of that is like the super legitimate concerns mimicking that we required us to establish a visual language with the art team , so it's okay if there is. there is something in the world that is this big or smaller or whatever it has to be minimal if there is something smaller than that it has to disappear or it becomes static in some way or like they are like pencils for a while there it is like if the player imitates a pencil, then they're going to fall through the world because it's too thin or like the clipboards, things like I was the clipboard police for a while, so we had to eliminate those things and make sure that there were like the Of course they are in a difficult situation and they need to imitate something to escape, they need to be able to see it at a glance, okay, I can imitate that, that and the degradation of the weapon was a big fight with the lead systems designer because he really wanted it and a everyone in it.

The team said no, no, this game is difficult, wait, isn't it? She didn't make my weapons come down on me too, so we pushed him and brought him back with me when we added more survival tactics because and I worked there like me. I hated playing it when I was in Prey, but I loved it in Bin Crash, so yeah, that was something we brought there, many of you are probably looking for more information on Prey Dishonored and the various DLCs. packs, but don't worry, we've got you covered, we have full documentaries on those games coming out over the summer, so make sure you're subscribed to our channel to be notified once they're released while the team in Austin works on their space dungeon, friends.

In France we were facing a different kind of challenge trying to reinvent the innovative head of it. We wanted to refine everything we had done on Dishonored. We wanted the opportunity to make it bigger and richer. We wanted to see somewhere else besides. dunwall but then we went back to dunwall and then we did all that even though it was a Herculean effort Kanekalon knew fantastic fact 'they were thrown out of Senate of magic oregon decadence or agave that's a pure Alamo question really God can assume he didn't conquer the school I should assume that I conquered the guard or the physiology, the type one dictator is a sudden sub mmm, he chose me super Lemon for me if you were a morning mom class or a slippery on Julian's trips and the other thing was that many of our fans, many of the people who dishonor really touched the people who made the art the fan fiction played a hundred hours, you could say that it is a group that does not serve so well many traditional games and that is why they are very passionate and many of them are women and So at that time it wasn't that common to have female protagonists, so when we were thinking about the game and we thought, what could we do?

The next day, rowing or whatever, I just thought, what if just fast forward 15 years, it was all about Emily and at the end you got to play Corvo; that's what we included, you know, because it was the same levels and most of the same work, except for the vo. work andBy branching at the beginning to allow you to play one or the other and a different set of powers, it ended up being more work than we expected, but those people responded to Emily in an interesting way, that was gratifying, it was a great moment for us.

Sun or Two and Prey came out in quick succession, the first in 2016 and the second just a year later, when Harvey was ready to return to Texas, Roth was ready to move on and in 2018 he left the studio he founded to create a new one. a wolf's eye where he leads a team that creates a smaller scale immersive simulator. He still talks to the team often. Harvey himself used to meet up for coffee at his favorite spot every few weeks. Nowadays, it is sometimes done over video chat, when an Irishman eavesdrops. RAF told me that his main motivation for leaving was change, there were aspects of corporate culture and Triple A developments that he had grown tired of an eland for a fresh creative starch, seems quite appropriate, really after 18 years arcane there was already grown up, there was It's time for the immersive simulator mentor to pass the baton to the next generation, even one more sister, the stress was still there, it was a different kind of stress and why not the stress of worrying that we won't do it anymore well or in a game. that will be done next week, but it's still extremely, you know the stakes are high, you have everyone waiting for you to do this, it's been eighteen years in the company and at this point I had to make a decision, whether I was going for another game after that means another four year cycle probably between the time you started with the idea to the time the game changes and that race for more technology, more bigger content, you know, more shaders, more skins , etc., it's often at odds with the agility we need to think, you know, try wicked, fast, cool ideas, there was a bit of my second or third mid-life crisis where it was arcane that was defining me and I wasn't sure what I wrote about arcane and I don't regret it, I mean I miss the guys, but I don't regret it, it's part of my history and an expression of what I wanted my culture to be.

You know, I started this and the nights have their own legs and it's doing it. it's its own thing when ruff i think your walls were kinda like you know the studio is now 18 years old you know it's adulthood you guys should be on your way now both you and austin are ready to go the first feeling was Honestly , the feeling was that it was a great responsibility for them to take this legacy and, yes, do it justice, but also move forward. I don't know, being new to Arcane, there are a lot of things about this study. and the work they do surprises me because it surprises me that it exists.

It amazes me that it can exist in this era of relative risk aversion and big blockbusters, everything and everything easy to market. I feel like I watch the same five games. They come out every year, which isn't a problem, they're all really cool and there's a lot of creative stuff going on, especially at the smaller triple-As and in Indy, but this is a pretty big studio by my standards, it has more of 150 people and we are doing strange things in a big publishing house, it's great. I didn't, if I didn't think it was possible, I thought you'd have to choose if you wanted to do weird and innovative things, you'd have to go. really small scale and if you're going to make a big game on a big label then you're going to have to sacrifice a lot of that innovation.

Arcane doesn't seem to accept that there's too much weirdness going on here and that's really fun, it's definitely challenging, it's definitely the hard way to do it, but I think the result is a lot less predictable. 20 years later, arcane's story is still being told, but ours has at least reached its conclusion at the beginning of all of this. i ostrov what are your dreams. For the studio, it seems appropriate to ask him one more question to look back and let us know what this all meant to him, the people he worked with for all those years and the fans who cheered them on all the way, yes the arc comes together . that he decided to join us and stay with us and he's still there now.

I feel very honored and very touched that people believed in me back then and in us as we grew up and then in Harvey. Now it's great that this arcane has become a kind of us. It started with nothing, it was like this branch of hopeful developers and then it became the beacon of immersive Sims where developers wanted to work and make some sacrifices because it's hard, I mean to make harmonious games, it's art, so thank you very much . and I wish you the best and I'm looking forward to playing in the next game and for the fans it's amazing that we've become something that's part of pop culture, you know, I think we first realized this when we were making Dishonored. and you start to see some fan art and some things that people do with your content, so those are the fans, so you know, thank you, thank you very much and I'm sure that, like me, they are waiting to see what or archeonys when. we do next your your your