| Everquest II: Wandering In a Designer's Mind
So how does a designer's mind work? Where do those ideas come from anyhow? It's tough to get insight into the creative process, but EQ II developer Keith Turkowski gives us a sneak peak:[blockquote]Here's a peek at my whiteboard circa 'The Buried Sea' expansion.
In the upper left is a cubic representation of the different elements used to create power sources. I wrote some background lore that never actually made it into the game, but I'll share here:
The Combine Alchemists fuse magic, science, and engineering together to achieve technological advancements.
The upper right quadrant contains a graph of some different resist curves that I plotted when I was trying different approaches to designing a new resist system. Just under the curves are some rough concepts I drew for the Katta Castrum Portal System before I ditched the whiteboard and pulled out the graph paper.
The "circuit diagram" in the lower right is actually a simple map of the lower floor of the small pyramids. I used it to map out the search patterns for the "Knowledge for Power" mission. If you look closely, there are some pretty solid clues on exactly how the search patterns work.
[blockquote]There's lots more to read at the link above, including some lore that never made it into the game.
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Everquest II: Wandering In a Designer's Mind
So how does a designer's mind work? Where do those ideas come from anyhow? It's tough to get insight into the creative process, but EQ II developer Keith Turkowski gives us a sneak peak:[blockquote]Here's a peek at my whiteboard circa 'The Buried Sea' expansion.
In the upper left is a cubic representation of the different elements used to create power sources. I wrote some background lore that never actually made it into the game, but I'll share here:
The Combine Alchemists fuse magic, science, and engineering together to achieve technological advancements.
The upper right quadrant contains a graph of some different resist curves that I plotted when I was trying different approaches to designing a new resist system. Just under the curves are some rough concepts I drew for the Katta Castrum Portal System before I ditched the whiteboard and pulled out the graph paper.
The "circuit diagram" in the lower right is actually a simple map of the lower floor of the small pyramids. I used it to map out the search patterns for the "Knowledge for Power" mission. If you look closely, there are some pretty solid clues on exactly how the search patterns work.
[blockquote]There's lots more to read at the link above, including some lore that never made it into the game.
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