We want people to really enjoy the personal stories of their characters and see what it does to their way of playing. So that’s a place where the technology is an enabler, but the creative part is still what really matters in the end.
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What we’ve found, and what all players know, is that an uninteresting dialogue is still uninteresting with full voice-over.
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This tech, even though it is not particularly new or particularly complex to code, really brings a sense of immersion to the game. It is truly a monumental task, dealing with a quantity of assets rarely seen in game development and with a very rigid production pipeline - after all, you need to schedule around real actors, some of them in foreign countries. Fortunately, we’ve had plenty of experience with voice-over at BioWare, so we were able to rely on well-established processes and technologies like lip-synching. We created a fully voiced-over dialogue system to utilize real actors. And you can play it with all your friends.ĭIG: What’s the coolest technology in this game?Į.L.: We have 800,000 lines of dialogue in this game, which is the equivalent of 60 Star Wars novels. Really, it’s the biggest role-playing game ever created. We have a full story, full cinematics, high-quality professional voice-acting and everything you’d expect in a single-player game, but with hundreds and hundreds of hours of story per class. During that phase, we get new rules on just how many creatures, or visual effects, or anything, really, we can have in any given area. Digital Innovation Gazette: How did you utilize technology to push the MMO space forward with this game?Įmmanuel Lusinchi: Our engineers are always trying to squeeze more and more performances out of the game engine and, as they are doing so, they are coming up with a clearer understanding of exactly what the creative folks can get away with.
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