Category: Interviews

Published on: Oct 16, 2014 @ 16:21 Bungie’s Luke Smith, lead designer on the Vault of Glass, had an interview with Kotaku.com discussing the raid. He talks about challenges they faced, the reasons behind some of the design decisions, raid matchmaking, future raids, and much more. Smith worked with a small team to create the Vault of Glass. They were operating under significantly different design constraints than the rest of the team, and it shows in the finished product. [divider] Interview Highlights The raid feels like it was designed by an entirely different team from the rest of Destiny. Was that the case? Luke Smith: In a certain way,

 Published on: Sep 7, 2014 @ 23:39 3news.co.nz spoke to Technical Director Chris Butcher about Destiny’s design decisions, some of the technical aspects of the game, as well as their plan for the future. [divider] Tell me about the coolest thing that’s happened as you’ve been playing Destiny recently. One night recently we had a few people playing from their homes, just a very low population because there were only about a dozen of us online at once. Suddenly we had enough people that we randomly got a Crucible match going and it got really intense. In this game it was some of

Published on: Sep 5, 2014 @ 8:07 Wired.co.uk just released an article online, taken from the September 2014 issue of Wired magazine, with an very in-depth interview. For another great behind-the-scenes interview, check out this article. [divider]Summer 1999, Macworld, New York City. The world’s largest trade show devoted to Apple products. It’s the year of the iBook and wireless networking. On stage, Steve Jobs hands over to Jason Jones, cofounder of a video game company named Bungie. After a brief, nervous introduction, Jones begins a demonstration. On screen, an armoured warrior, chased by aliens, runs out of a passageway into a huge, open space —

The Guardian just released an article that covers the behind the scenes aspects of the world’s most expensive video game. [divider] On the wall are multiple LCD displays showing graphs, maps and streams of data; this small windowless box, hidden away in a cavernous converted multiplex in Washington, is crowded with serious-looking people hunched over keyboards, amid a mass of cables and high-spec PCs. It looks like a Nasa control room, and the people working here are as smart as rocket scientists. But this isn’t a launch site – this is a game development studio. What these people are waiting for is the

Gamasutra recently posted an interview with Jason Sussman, senior environment artist at Bungie, about the art direction for the game. If you’re interested in the official Destiny Art Book, check out this article. [divider] Can you explain the art direction for Destiny? JS: Well, what it is… So, what it is, when the Traveller came, humanity branched out across the universe. So there’s evidence of humanity across the universe. That’s the foundation. All of that is based, specifically from an art perspective, in reality — the destinations as a whole. We’re amplifying that, of course, with humanity branching out. We’re also bringing some