Demigod Q&A With Lead Designer Mike Marr

Published on October 13, 2008 By Island Dog In Demigod Journals

Mike Marr, Lead Designer for Demigod, sits down with a Q&A session with Gamezone.com. They cover a range of topics including character creations, overall game dynamics, and much more. It’s a great look into the “behind the scenes” work going on to create this incredible game.

"We begin by individually brainstorming what we think are the most compelling epic characters we can imagine," said Mike Marr, Lead Designer. "From there we all meet and discuss the ideas, narrowing the pool down to just a couple. At that point art works on concepts and design works on abilities and background information. At that point we’ll review and see which Demigod is speaking to us the most. The one that speaks the most to us is the one we’ll start actual creation of. The other ideas are filed away and reviewed again when we go to create a new demigod."

Read the full Q&A at GameZone.com.

Comments (Page 3)

HorseRadish

on Oct 15, 2008

Obviously better then you

Tyo

on Oct 23, 2008

Hey all!

Sorry for the complete lack of response lately. We've recently tapped the afterburners to get Beta 2 out to you all and pack as much awesome as we can in to it and it has kept me cranking. So, while the game has benefited dramatically, my forum presence has sunk like a rock. I apologize.

Now! For questions.

"Racing game? Fighting game? WTF!" I'm circuitously talking about how single player works. I haven't been given the green-light to talk directly about it yet, so this is my way of talking out of the side of my mouth. I was talking about how the game plays OUTSIDE of the actual matches. Vague I know, but there you have it.

"No generals? I hate you Tyo!" There will be Generals. They will be awesome. I will accept no substitutes.

Again, sorry all for the lack of responses - the team is deep in the trenches and winning huge battles for the game, unfortunately that's come at the price of forum participation. It is my plan that as we enter the balance stage of the game you'll be hearing and chatting with me on a much more frequent basis.

- Mike "Tyo" Marr
Demigod Design Lead

Trigeminal

on Oct 23, 2008

Nice to hear from you Mark. I look forward to seeing how single player is, I am actually pretty excited about it too. I am also glad to hear generals are in there, I really hope they are in fact awesome.

By the way, as the person hugely perplexed by the racing game and fighting game comment, I did not say WTF. However, I think you got my emotion if you thought confusion, but not if you thought I was pissed. I was really just confused.

X-Raider

on Oct 23, 2008

finaly a word from you Tyo, for a moment I thoght you don't care about us anymore.

good to hear you and good to know you all working hard, I can't wait for the beta2/generals.

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