Polygon Interview - Caves and Storytelling in The War Within

The War Within Geposted 19.07.2024 um 13:04 von Archimtiros

A Character Driven Story

Maria Hamilton, via Polygon

I think we wanted to move away, except where it made a lot of sense, from having different stories being told. Sometimes we want you to understand a slightly different nuance, and then we might have a separate Horde-only or Alliance-only story. But in general, for our main story, we really wanted to make sure everyone understood that same story.

We did think a lot about where we have Horde representation and Alliance representation. And, of course, we know what we’re doing in the future, as well. And so we’re just trying to make sure that nobody’s feeling like their particular interest isn’t being represented as much as possible, because it’s a saga. Right? We have room to spread things out over a longer period of time. And it may be that that people are reacting to. They’re seeing this first chapter — not even the full chapter, really. But they’re seeing this first installment and saying, ‘Wow, that seems like a lot of Alliance characters.’ But there are Horde characters that are there. And there will be more later.

We wanted to do justice to Anduin’s story here. We wanted to make sure that he didn’t just suddenly feel better and be chipper. That would have really cheated everyone of the story. We wanted the depths of his self-doubt and sort of anguish at times to be more clear. And we wanted to contrast him with Faerin who doesn’t have those doubts and does wield the Light. ’s doubting himself and his worthiness. And so putting him in a situation, like what we have happening in Hallowfall, where he’s seeing these people that are just constantly beleaguered by endless waves of Nerubians that are attacking all the time, and then giving him time with Faerin, and giving him time in their city to reflect and to talk through some of the things that he’s experienced — very intentional setting for that. The choices that he makes later are based a lot on those conversations that he had in .

Jordan Powers, via Polygon

To borrow an art analogy, we have the broad strokes sort of planned out. We can see where we’re going, what cultures and races and characters that we’re going to be interacting with throughout the course of this whole saga. And like Maria said, it allows us to make adjustments — you know, make sure we’re hitting all the right flavor notes along the way.Developing a World Within

Maria Hamilton, via Polygon

Well, as far as the story side of things, having things within a pocket, as you’re saying, it’s a little tighter, it’s a little closer. But at the same time, we can tell more sort of personal stories about that place, and about some of those people. Sometimes you’ll come across a place that doesn’t look like it’s been used much, there’s not much happening there. And sometimes that’s really intentional, because we want that environmental storytelling to do the work for us. You come across the place and you wonder, ‘Well, what happened here?’ So sometimes you don’t have to build things in those tighter spaces to tell the story. Sometimes you just have to step back from it and say, ‘all right, they’ll imagine what happened here, this is cool.’

Jordan Powers, via Polygon

I think, you know, artistically, there were some challenges when creating just four unique zones, three of which were underground. One of the big things that we were mindful of, from an art perspective, was trying to make sure that all these spaces that we’re crafting are not too claustrophobic, too dark, too oppressive, because nobody really wants to spend, you know, an extended period of time in an environment like that. So what we did was we tried to strike a delicate balance between still nailing the fantasy of venturing deeper underground, but also providing players with some new, unexpected things that they’ll encounter along the way. And I think a great example of that is when you come out of The Ringing Deeps into Hallowfall, you see, you know, the shot of the giant crystal coming out of the cavern ceiling, you see the endless ocean. It’s not something players would really expect to see in an underground area.

Maria Hamilton, via Polygon

Yes, a hole goes down, or to the sides. But sometimes it also gets blocked, and then you have to try different ways to do things, and that’s not always a hole. There’s more to it than going down.

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Kommentar von WesemirDEIch habe es schon in einem anderen Artikel kommentiert und kann es nur wiederholen. Dieser Austausch zwischen Spielern und Entwicklern ist ungemein wichtig. Nur so können die Entwickler auf die Bedürfnisse der Spieler eingehen. Finde ich gut, dass es heutzutage mehr gemacht wird wieder. Auf die kommenden Inhalte habe ich Bock und freue mich auf Housing, wenn es dann irgendwann mal kommt ;P

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