Completing quest steps will improve your hero permanently while rewarding you with currencies to spend at the Workshop. Quests have been designed to offer run-based challenges to heroes facing the dangers of the station. These range from discovery and domination to revenge and redemption. To discover more about them, each hero has a personal quest that they are pursuing. They may have to be unlocked, and will let you know what needs to be done for them to decide if it’s worth going back down into the crazy killzones of the Station. Of course, not all the heroes are immediately trusting of whatever noob comes chatting with them in the Saloon.
In fact, any time design, writing, and art are sitting together brainstorming we know it’s going to be a fun part of the dev cycle! Some of the heroes started from concept art and some started from design needs, but all of them get a thick coating of lore icing with animation and audio as the cherries on the cake. The development of the heroes was of course one of the most entertaining parts of the narrative dev cycle.
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Every one of them has not only gameplay roles and abilities, but also backstories based on the gameplay plus personal goals that led them to the Station-or will lead them away from it. These heroes represent five known factions of the Endless universe plus two new ones (maybe one and a half). Heroes and QuestsYou will run through the Station, dying and re-trying, as one of the eight heroes in the game. To show you how and why we did this, here is a dive into the key narrative elements of Endless Dungeon, explaining some of the systems and content that players will discover in the game. These are the stories and events that are the most immediate for the player as they are tied to the progression of the heroes, achievements, equipment, bonuses, and all of that. This is the personality and backstory of each hero, the details of how they interact with each other and with the Station, what their individual quests and goals are, and everything else that goes into this most visible layer of the game narrative. Once this backdrop was complete (or at least relatively stable), we then started working out the details of the game story. (Note: Though these elements are created first, they form the deepest layers of narrative that are only uncovered through concerted efforts by players who want to dig into the lore…) Next, of course, we had to refine the history of the Station, its rise and fall, what all the different structures and districts are, why it ended up this way, and everything else that creates the backstory of the actual game experience. The timeline is important to determine what factions may or may not be present, what events have or have not happened, etc. While an important part of the tales that come from strategy games like Endless Space and Endless Legend evolve from emergent stories, games with stronger RPG elements like Endless Dungeon necessarily rely a lot more on the content authored by the devs.Īccordingly, the team spent a lot of time at the beginning of the project working out the big picture story of the Station and where (and when) it fit in the canon of the Endless Universe timeline. Video games of any genre basically have two types of narrative: the authored narrative created by the devs that you discover as you play (canon), and the emergent narrative created by the player as they do their own unique playthrough of the game and build their individual story (headcanon).
Great stories are a critical element of any media experience, and we work hard to bring narrative to our games that is as interesting as the graphics and the gameplay.
A long Time Ago.Compelling stories and events have always been present in Amplitude’s games we are all geeky fans of great fiction, be it Greek epics or gender-bending SF.
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