Planet Destiny Guides @ PC Invasion

Eurogamer had the pleasure of speaking to Bungie’s director of production Jonty Barnes and lead concept artist Jesse van Dijk, and they had a lot of good answers. It’s an amazing interview! [divider] What was the most useful feedback you got from the beta? Jonty Barnes: Let’s start with the most important thing, which is, it was a test. Having all of those players at once, we didn’t fall on our face. We were able to scale to the demands on the servers of all of the players. In fact we exceeded some of our targets, which was great. So we’re

Jonty Barnes, Director of Production at Bungie, talks with TSA about Destiny. [divider] TSA: What kinds of things have you learnt from the beta? Is there anything that you’re thinking you might try and patch in? Jonty: Well there were hundreds of little changes that we actually made. The most notable one that we’ve actually talked about was the Interceptor in competitive multiplayer that was too powerful, but we also had the Hand Cannon that was not powerful enough. We had lots of optimisations to do about making sure the best people are matched together and making sure they’re given the best

Veteran industry writer Joshua Rubin leaves ahead of the game’s release next month, to work on Game of Thrones at TellTale. Read the full article here. [divider] Joshua Rubin, who spent two years at Bungie writing the story for the upcoming shooter Destiny, has quit the studio to take a job at Telltale Games where he will work on the developer’s Game of Thrones episodic series. Rubin announced the news on Twitter, saying he’s excited by the challenge of writing a Game of Thrones story that is on par–or better–than what fans found in the HBO TV show. Benioff and Weiss