#lopteam

최지원 =재밌는 에피소드가 있는데, 저희가 개발을 하다가 기예르모 델 토로의 피노키오가 공개가 됐어요. 이종범 =그게 개발 언제쯤이었어요? 최지원 =한창 개발 피크 때였습니다. 그래서 스튜디오가 발칵 뒤집혔죠. 아이고, 어떡하지하고요. 예를 들어서 아들 이름이 '카를로'기도 하고요. 저희들은 '아, 이거를 히든카드로 생각하고 강력한 무기로 하자'고 했는데 '먼저 노출되면 어떡하지?'하기도 했죠. 저희가 이야기를 소신껏 잘하기도 했는데, 이런 부분도 어려운 거 같습니다.

While discussing diagetics and narratives in video games, The moderator mentions that he finds it interesting that while the other directors say something about gravity or immersion, Choi, whose background is in combat (he was the former combat director for Lost Ark), responds that “Players should know what they’re fighting for,” more or less. (Well, what Choi says is more like "you should know why you're doing something".)

최지원 =네, 제가 생각하는 게임에서 좋은 내러티브란 지속적으로 동기나 목표가 제공이 되어야 되는 게 좋다고 생각합니다. 게임을 하다 보면 특정한 행동할 때 '그런 경험을 내가 왜 하고 있지?' 하다 보면은, 어떤 목표가 있음에도 불구하고 게임을 집중하는 이 몰입도가 떨어지는 경향이 있거든요. 그래서 행동 하나에 있어서도 '내가 어떤 명분이나 목표를 가지고 이런 행동을 한다'라는 게 느껴져야 게임에 몰입이 유지됩니다. 그러한 뜻에서 계속 지속적인 목표가 제공돼야 되는 게 게임에서는 좋은 내러티브라고 생각합니다. 이종범 =약간 그런 거잖아요? 계속 스스로를 고통받게 하기 위해 만들어진 게임들이 있잖아요. 그때 '나 이걸 왜 하고 있는 거야'라고 자문했을 때 이유를 주는 것이라고 할 수 있을까요?

When I hear this, I think of how P gets angry at the KoP's play. [this is my personal thoughts] During the boss battles, the "subtext" is that he's fighting to save Krat - but on a personal level, I feel like he's fighting for his father.

Director Choi also mentioning that games are a good medium for non-verbal (비언어적) storytelling. I felt this strongly about Lies of P.

Director Kay:

LOL

The other director is Lee Sang-Gyun (It seems like he prefers to go by Kay Lee in English), who was recently "inducted" into R8 and is the director of the new soulslike project from Neowiz that isn't tied to LoP. He praises Antonia's story, and they talk about the adage that constraints can often promote creativity, which can seem counterintuitive, but it's often true. (Also he said that he cried a lot lol)

Director Kay Lee talks about writing ideas down when they come to him, even if they're not "useful" in a particular project. Director Choi responds that he never writes anything down, and Director Kwon retorts that “that's because you use me as a human notebook” lol

To clarify to no one in particular, there were 4 directors on the panel, One, as you very well may know, is Jiwon Choi who was general director of LOP and Overture, and Kwon Byung-Soo who was LOP and Overture Narrative lead. The other two Directors, Kay Lee (Lee Sang-Gyun) and Jin Seung-Ho are new to the studio, and weren't involved with the development of LOP or Overture.

[This is a really stupid, and pretentious, comment from me, but I see Kay Lee mentioning Heavy Rain as an example as like, a creative red flag, mainly because I thought Heavy rain was complete ass LOL. (Well, it made sense for the example he was giving) Jin Seung-Ho, on the other hand, mentions Park Chan-Wook. Hmm. ]

I'm interested to see what Jin Seung-ho is going to do with this big studio budget backing him, because as far as I can see, his previous RPG Buried Stars had themes of online harassment, and was really highly acclaimed.

[very lazy fan interpretation]