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Quake 4 "weekly update" |
Posted Jul 30th, 09:05am by SkipRat |
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Yeah yeah I know its been way more than a week 
Not been much to post about really.
Quake 4 isn't just an Xbox 360 launch title and one of the biggest PC games of the year. It's also the latest chapter in the blockbuster franchise that established the 3D shooter as we know it today. However, Quake 4 is the first game in the series that isn't being designed directly by id Software. Development duties went to Raven Software, the company responsible for the Star Trek: Elite Force and Soldier of Fortune games, as well as the last two Star Wars: Jedi Knight games. Combine Raven's reputation with id's cutting-edge graphics technology, and you know why Quake 4 is an action game on everyone's list this year. In this first chapter of our designer diary series for Quake 4, two members of the development team describe how they named the various characters in the game. Names may sound like little things, but clearly a lot of thought went into them
Like any large creative project, the names used in Quake 4 have some history behind them. For the hero's squad, we came up with a long list of potential names. In the "mythical names" section of the list, we came across "Unicorn," and our project lead, Eric Biessman, saw this and quickly created a skin for our hard-as-nails Marine with the logo of a doe-eyed unicorn and rainbow on his chest plate. Needless to say, Unicorn was dropped from the list. Soon after that, it was eventually decided to have animal names for all the squads. Having previously been a tank company's name, Rhino squad became the name of the hero's band of Marines. -- Bob Love, writer/programmer
The overriding goal of creating Rhino squad was that each member has a distinctive voice that can be easily identified over the radio. We played with a bunch of different accents, and when we wound up with our final mix, and the team's makeup was decided, it was fairly easy to choose names. -- Eric Biessman, lead designer
Pretty cool ideas so far.
You can see the list of characters along with picturesHERE |
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