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An interview with Andy Muir from Silverback Entertainment has been posted at Gamespydaily. They talk, of course, about Harbinger, the futuristic action RPG to be released in less than two weeks. Here's an excerpt:
GameSpy: In researching for this interview I came across a comment from one of your team members about the inclusion of money in the game . What can you buy with money and from whom do you buy from? Is money plentiful or scarce on the ship?
Andy: Money is a funny thing in our game, and the NPCs discuss it quite a bit. From the start, we knew we needed currency, but since everything in our universe was built from scratch, we not only had to come up with the currency, but the whole story of where the currency came from. The temptation was to just put it in the game and hope everyone would just accept it as a game element and not question where it came from.
But as the game developed, and more and more dialog was written, the money increasingly became the elephant in the living room nobody wanted to talk about. And it wasn’t just the money that was the problem. Working the story around the money was causing us all kinds of trouble as well. So here’s the story of Harbinger’s currency. One of the primary enemy races in the game is the Vantir. They’re unique in that they’re really a form of sentient ooze that’s struggling with their own evolution. They see the other races as being better than themselves, and they have a strong drive to become something more than what they are, they’re just not sure how to get there. So during the game, they’re really stretching to mimic the aspects they respect in other races. Sometimes they pull it off. Sometimes they don’t. One of the Vantir success stories is a corporation they formed to sell weaponry to the other races.
But the Vantir don’t qualify the corporation as a success because of the financial gain they achieved. They qualify it as a success because they established and control a currency which they use to keep the other races down and maintain their position among Harbinger’s power elite. |
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Harbinger Interview at Gamespydaily
