Jeffrey Spock: Yeah, that's a good point, knowing that was part of the creation of the character and the style of the character. As you may know, we will have eight playable characters in this game for the release, which is already very nice, because each of them, they have their own personality, animations, et cetera.

For example, let's take Sweeper: we know we need a character that is going to be the first playable character, we have different classes of characters in terms of gameplay, so we need to fill in these boxes in a way with what we need on the gameplay side, and according to the number of character we will be able to produce as well. So working with primarily Benoît and Jean-Max, we're looking at the characters and then thinking, 'Okay, what's the archetype for gameplay? What's the archetype in a Western setting? What's the archetype in a sci-fi setting? What did the artist come up with?' And we're just mixing and matching all these things together, trying to come up with something interesting, fun, coherent, and - ideally, for me - that ties into the law of the universe in an understandable way.īenoît Faguet: Yeah, clearly, it's a mix of different constraints we have, of course. I saw the interview you did with Romain and Jean-Max, so you know about the whole galactic Western, space Western thing. But it's a very iterative thing, we spend a lot of time in brainstorming. Which is always a huge problem, because if you put a new character in the game, you have to create a new faction around them, so all of a sudden I get this big chunk of work to do on top. So the first thing we do is try to figure out when is it happening? And then what sort of previous history does it touch on? Once you figure all that stuff out, then it's like Benoît, who's game designer, myself as the lore and writing guy, and the artists are doing a lot of brainstorming together.Īnd what happens is the artists will come up with lots of crazy designs, all sorts of visuals some of them are based on factions and characters we've had before, and some of them are just artists coming up with crazy new ideas. Jeffrey Spock: Typically, when we start a new game in the Endless universe, really the first thing that we're looking at is: when did it happen? Because the universe has a timeline and events and different factions, so if the game happens then, these guys can't be in it, these guys don't exist yet.

First, I would just love to know a little bit about what the process was like for you guys in general when it came to designing each character, and how the Sweeper specifically came about.

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