Anthem Twitter Thread

Sure, they talk, but they don’t brief people who aren’t on a project on all its high level decisions and plans. Plus, it sounds like they haven’t settled on monetization plans even now, many months after Heir’s departure.

You can bet they look very closely how the competition and their own SW game is received.

Rachel‏ @petitemortician
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Normal Mad Bee‏ @angryspacebee
[Thread] My contract at BioWare ends this Friday.
I was not expecting my short few month contract to turn into a year contract,
nor was I expecting to thoroughly enjoy testing art assets. I already had several years of experience as a game artist,
so I had the foundation already set to review, test and provide useful feedback to the art teams on their work.
Doing this sort of work provided me the understanding on what "good" looks like when dealing with 3d assets.
I also got a better understanding on how damn important having an embedded specialized QA person in every facet of game production is.
They are the last line of defense and that extra set of eyes that, artists especially, need.
I know from personal experience how easy it is to go blind to your work and become to hyper focused that it works to your detriment.
ANYWAYS, I loved my year at Bioware. The last year has been fantastic for me. :> Perhaps I will return later on.
I should also mention after creating test levels, I REALLY ENJOY level design.




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I find it amusing that that article says "on the right track", when the only change is a UI one which allowed them to have more items in it (which resulted in more stuff available). You can resell basically everything from the Cartel Market to players for in-game money, the downside is that only people with subscription have the money to buy anything because of the credit cap on F2Pers and Preferred, but I didn't have the impression Anthem was going to be a sub-based game so we can ignore the credit parth thing.

I'm not sure if that is going to works for Anthem though. It work in SWTOR because the majority of the players plays to "play barbies in Star Wars". They aren't in it to get sweet loot form lockbox or mobs like the Destiny crowd.

With the Anthem gameplay trailer being shown on an XB1X, my guess is MS has some sort of deal worked out with EA. I'm sure the Sony show will be worth watching anyway, but I don't expect to see Anthem there.

News has just begun circulating that Steven Gilmour (Lead Animator on Anthem, DAI & KOTOR) has left BioWare.

Derek French‏ @bio_derek
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An event? The only recent event I can think of was the PS one yesterday, but there wasn't anything Anthem-related at it.

If we get anything new this year, the Game Awards on Dec. 7th are probably the best bet.

Jennifer Scheurle‏ @gaohmee
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Rachel‏ @petitemortician
Game design, in a gif.
(But seriously. It ALWAYS comes back to rocks. I don't know how.)

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Surely they meant texture? I doubt that petrography is really a thing on their resume.

All they really want to know which landforms can be formed by which rocks, so they do not pattern columnar basalt with granit texture or something. They have no need to go into composition, and properly identifying each rock, percentage of each mineral in it, proper name that depends on it, etc. So, texture, rather than composition.