Petter's Blog

switch it up by doing the reverse! In your fantasy universe various stuff is NOT simple. Iron? Not actually a fundamental elemental substance, just a kind of thing you can make from ingredients, like bread. Electricity? A catchall term for the distinct phenomena of radiant mana, G-beams, and sparkle migrations.

in retrospect i really should've seen it coming that i would find lizzie most endearing of all the KIM characters, but it caught me genuinely by surprise. but as soon as that fucking demon guitar sent back ":(" it was over for me. i'm pro-lizzie forever now i'm afraid.

I would and I would put you in my pocket so you'd never get lost.

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Timelapse under cut:

A little more insight into Brysko, among other things:

MMORPG: [..] Let’s move to Brysko, because I love him. One of the things I love that you guys do is take a lot of inspiration. In the presentation, a lot of people were equating Fornax to Night City from Cyberpunk, and I can definitely see where they might see a little of that. And then you have Brysko, this noir detective character who’s really cool, and it was a really cool explanation that he doesn’t have a voice, so everything is an internal monologue. Super fun, really love that. Can you speak a little about the inspiration and where that noir angle came from?

Megan Everett: First of all, I’m really glad that you like Brysko, because we were actually really scared about him, so hearing he’s already a fan favorite makes me feel great. We have Protoframes, which have a voice and a face, and then you have Warframes that are silent, sometimes they grunt or whatever, but you don’t have an in-between, and Brysko is that in-between. For us it’s another risk, switching the script up a little bit. We were nervous about Protoframes when we were making them, because that was a huge leap, and now we’re in this middle ground of, are people going to hate a Warframe that talks to himself? I don’t know, we’ll find out. But my favorite thing about Brysko is that he’s based off of Lennie Briscoe from Law and Order. Reb is a Law and Order fan, girl has the box set, she watches it, it’s her comfort show.

That’s how he got his name, but obviously with a more sentient spelling, we flipped it a little bit. Lennie Briscoe himself is a huge inspiration. And Reb has been using comparisons like Boardwalk Empire, obviously L.A. Noire, The Sopranos, The Godfather. We’re going to meet the Hunra, that’s the don, you know? Internally we call it Tau Mafia, and we actually wanted to do Tau Mafia last year as the TennoLive reveal, but we realized we needed to tell the story of why we even needed to go to Tau in the first place, which is what The Old Peace became, and that totally makes sense. So we’ve been sitting on this vibe and story, and we had the illustration for Brysko about a year ago.

The detective frame has been in the vault for a while, and we knew he was going to be our man. At that time we didn’t know he was going to have an internal monologue, we just knew he was going to be a detective, and then we thought, you know what would be so cool? Albrecht Entrati, it’s his chimera, he’s putting him together, he’s got pieces of him, and what if, through all of that sentient technology, he can actually talk to himself, and you hear that? Again, a very risky, weird choice, I feel, to do that with him. And obviously he’s voiced by Matt Mercer, which, I’m biased, but I’m extremely excited about. He is the perfect Brysko. He was the first person that ever read for Brysko, and we went, yep, that’s Brysko right there. So I hope people like that.

MMORPG: I can already tell everyone’s gonna love it. By far he’s one of the coolest frames you’ve come up with, and it’s also kind of a strange shift, right? Because it’s not just that he’s this new kind of frame with an inner monologue, you also described him as a Chimera frame, not quite a proto frame. Obviously that’s probably going to come to light in the quest, and we don’t want to get too far into it, but is there anything you can tell us about Chimera frames? Is he the only one? How many are there? What did Entrati do? Can we talk about that at all?

Megan Everett: Currently, he is the one. In the later part of the demo, which we cut off when you were flying in the car, we go to a casino, and it’s that ultimate, holy shit, we’re about to meet the Hunra, he’s at the top of the tower type of thing. We learn a lot about who the Hunra is in that moment, and he speaks to Brysko in terms of, do you want to know more about your maker? And we know his maker is Albrecht Entrati, so there’s this flow-through connection. We don’t give too much away there, that’s the climax of, ooh, what’s going to happen, and what are we going to find out about Albrecht Entrati? Because we know he’s not the greatest of men in this world. But yeah, he is just so weird, exciting, and different. And one thing to say is that the version of Brysko you see in the demo is his Chimera version, but there is a different version of him that you’ll see at the art panel, and that’s his non-Chimera version, and that’s all I’m saying.

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