Champions Online Power Set Interview – Telekinesis, Force, and Telepathy - Page 4

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Posted Mon, Jun 29, 2009 by Ralsu

As a player, it’s always fun to see new stuff coming into the game. On the other hand, I was just worried that the stuff you were adding in—they didn’t seem big, but on the other hand you were continuing to add stuff, so I didn’t know where you were in the polish phase compared to the development phase.

BR: Definitely a lot of what we are doing now is polish, which is good that we are at that point. Sometimes you can see things and go, “Oh, why is that happening? Why are they doing that? Where did that idea come from?” A lot of that is involved in the actual polish portion of it.

The ability to project a force field onto anybody could shake up the holy trinity of class archetypes.

We’re pretty lucky because the team is really dedicated to working on the game frankly, getting in as much as we absolutely can. What we’re seeing out of that is the fact that we’re getting a lot more in than we even thought we were going to at the end. That was a thing I was really happy about.

One of the guys came to me yesterday, right as I was writing the state of the game, and said, “Oh, hey we’re going to be able to do this cool new feature that one of the guys just decided was going to be his personal project.” So, we’re going to have the ability for people to update their Twitter inside the game.

That's neat.

BR: So you’ll be able to type “/tweet”, hit a space, and then type a 140-character message, Then, boom! It goes right to the Twitter account. It’s his personal thing. “Yeah, I’m on Twitter all the time, and I want to be able to be playing and update.” That’s awesome, man!

Yeah. That’s pretty cool.

BR: It’s definitely a polishing thing, but looking at his schedule and what he was working on, he had some extra time and thought he’d be able to get it in for our fans. It would be cool to throw that at the Champions, first.

It’s a thing where even though we are going through and putting polish on the game, there are people in the company that are thinking, “Oh, hey this would be really cool. What if we could do this or do that?” It’s throwing those things in, which I think is a really neat thing. It’s another way where everybody pitches in.

Thank you for answering these questions for us.

BR: You bet.