Dragon Age: The Veilguard Director Sees Her Work on The Sims as a Blessing. „There Are a Lot of Really Fascinating Parallels”
The director of Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a veteran of The Sims series, and her experience at Maxis studio proved very useful in working on the fourth installment of BioWare's RPG series.
The director of the game Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Corinne Busche. She previously worked at Maxis and in an interview with IGN, she talked about how her experience working on The Sims series proved useful in creating BioWare's next RPG.
As Busche explains, Maxis is a real talent forge for game designers. This is because the brand The Sims is currently available on numerous platforms and uses a variety of business models.
- In this series of games, especially The Sims 4, there are a lot of deep systems responsible for simulating the world and evoking emotional reactions in players. The series focuses on great freedom of action and decision-making, as well as influencing other characters, and these elements are also what RPG fans desire.
- According to Corinne Busche, the world and the development of its inhabitants are controlled by complex systems, although often unnoticed by the player. As a result, the director sees many fascinating similarities between games from the The Sims series and RPG titles.
- The knowledge acquired from working on Maxis games was also useful in developing the character creator for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, where certain problems were resolved by observing how they were addressed in The Sims 4.
The Sims 4 isn't the only game that the devs of Dragon Age: The Veilguard are inspired by. A few days ago, one of the designers revealed that the solution used for conversations between team members was directly taken from State of Decay, which the developer saw for the first time there. If an event (such as a fight) interrupts the companion's speech during the game, the game will resume the conversation when things calm down again. Previous installments of Dragon Age had a different approach, causing such conversations to be lost forever.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is being developed for PC, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5. The premiere will take place on October 31st this year.
