AC Sisterhood Speaks! Episode 4 - Betty Robertson
AC Sisterhood Speaks!
English - March 02, 2021 20:18 - 1 hour - 184 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Writer Betty Robertson discusses her work on AC Odyssey and Valhalla. Topics include mentorship, technical challenges of writing for video games, linearity vs. player freedom, Valhalla's characters and much more! Beware SPOILERS!
00:00 Intro
01:05 Writing mentorship
06:41 Which technical constraints or challenges are involved when writing video game quests?
17:34 Finding the right emotional balance in a story
22:50 Working with AC Valhalla's "arc" structure
27:41 Linear storytelling vs. player freedom
32:40 Consistent character vs. player-created personality
35:49 Eivor's biggest weakness?
37:22 Similarities between AC1 and Valhalla
41:00 Eivor vs. Odin
44:17 Callbacks to AC2?
45:30 Inspiration for Glowecestrescire arc (Halloweentown!)
51:13 Challenges of writing romances for different gender choices
54:50 Eivor's "return to Randvi" line
56:36 Language barriers
1:00:02 Stowe & Erke
1:12:09 Favorite lines/scenes that you wrote?
1:17:19 Current projects
1:19:19 Outro
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