Ownt Developer Diary

Posted by:  at 18:47 PM 

Ownt has created a Tribes: Vengeance Developer Diary featuring Ed Orman, Jonathan Pelling, and David Beswick. Here's a snippet of the diary:

---

Before we can start, we need to understand what kind of game we're making. I'd previously played a fair amount of Tribes 1, but only a little of Tribes 2. During the period where we were still pitching to do Tribes: Vengeance, I played more Tribes than I ever had. Primarily, we were playing Tribes 1, and then later on Sierra gave us a bunch of free licences to Tribes 2, and once a week many members of the studio would log on and battle it out.

The point of all of this game playing was not to have fun (although we did), but to gain a better understanding about the mechanics. During this time, we were also thinking about possible additions to the game, and cruising the forums to see what the community felt was good/bad/missing. I began compiling a list of gameplay "tools" that we'd have at our disposal.

All of this research was compiled into the first draft of the design document, which formed the basis for the Prototype as well as the final product.

---

• Tribes: Vengeance Developer Diary