We know, we know … We’ve been mute for some time. Making marketing materials, such as trailers, takes a lot of time and energy, and we try to focus all our efforts at the end of Judas.
But we also miss more direct relationships with you, the player, so we thought: “Why not start publishing some developers’ diaries?”
Thanks to this, we hope that we will communicate more often to update novel details of what we are working on, without spoiling too much of what Judas has. The goal is to preserve this nice L-Fi, which means more constant updates than before, but not necessarily always with fancy trailers and super refined final images. (Although there will be more of them!)
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Function update: Villaine
We just finished the main milestone: Villaine. Villaine is the central feature of Judas. When you play Bioshock or Bioshock Infinite, the villain will always be a villain. Fontaine, Comstock – there will always be bad guys. In Judas, your activities will attract BIG 3 members as friends. But ignore one of them enough and they become criminal. From there, they will receive access to a novel power set to overthrow your actions and goals. The following clips show only some functions.
This is just one example of how Big 3 can take revenge. For now, more threatening and specific to the nature of things will be kept secret.
In the end you will have to make decisions about who to focus on your energy … and who you will end with alienation.
But … be careful not to hire when Tom is pissed off.
Concentration on a character
One of my personal favorite all time is Middle -earth: Shadow of Mordor due to the emerging game possible thanks to their NEMESSSE. The system allows you to develop diminutive relationships with many orcs. However, their goals were slightly different than ours, because there are so many different orcs and they do not have time to develop them in characters.
In Judas you will meet these characters exactly. We want the loss of one of them to want to lose a friend. We want to play with this dynamics and we want the choice to be very tough. All BIG 3 will compete for your favor and attention. They can brush you, save you in the battle, talk about other characters and share with you the darkest secrets. But in the end you have to decide who you trust and who you don’t.
In Bioshock Infinite, a lot of energy was invested in the development of relationships with Elizabeth. At the end of the game you knew everything about her, her skills, her hopes and dreams.
But the truth is that she knew almost nothing about you, a player playing a Booker. In Judas, Big 3 observes you during the game, and they have feelings not only about how you approach fighting, hacking and creating, but most importantly, your interactions with the other two characters.
As part of the milestone of Villaine, we also completed the largest Judas test, in which novel players have experienced this function from first hand. Every time we test, we learn so much and love to have this level of knowledge while working on the game. The testers divided a lot of valuable feedback on the weight of the decision and how it influenced the results, their interest in learning more about the motivations of the character and how the moments in which Big 3 helped – or turned to them – changed their future decisions.
New key art
Another thing that we are excited about that we can share is … This is:
We are very joyful that it finally shows up. Personally, I have always been a huge fan of the work of Drew Stuzana and this era of film posters. The style is great in the presentation of movies that have a vast cast, such as Star Wars. And Judas has a vast cast. In addition to the main roles, there will probably be more than a hundred parts of the speaking … If you look carefully, there are probably some details that you may be curious. Let’s say that there are some things in this game that we will not talk about now, but everything is critical here.
There is one thing that we are sure that you all want to know: When does Judas go out?!?!
Although we would like us to give you an exact date today, we are not ready to finalize it. As you know, the dates of release have a way to slip and we would like to avoid the need to change the date after its announcement. But we know that Judas is not really a game until the players get it, and this is the day when everyone works in the team.
