Yesterday’s TOR Friday Update was an update of epic awesomeness!
We got a super Smuggler Progression video.. make sure you catch the Indiana Jones reference, and the Episode IV reference:
Watch that again, repeatedly..because it’s awesome…
There was also a PAX highlight video (which while cool, is no where near as Epic as the Smuggler video).
And last, but certainly not least.. we got a developer blog from Alexander Freed about writing in the Star Wars Universe.. some highlights of it are:
Make it True to the Setting
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. After all, who wants comic or novel based on The Old Republic that doesn’t resemble the setting of the game? But keeping the story true to the setting is about far more than just keeping track of the timeline and spelling characters’ names right.
For the comics, it’s our job to make sure the designs you see on the page match the designs you see on the screen. Every artist has his own style, but to make sure that everything remains true to the established aesthetic of a project like The Lost Suns, BioWare supplies hundreds of pieces of reference art. Between all the screenshots and concept art of different outfits, species, weapons, abilities, environments, and characters, the amount of source material used to make sure the artists keep the comics feeling accurate to the period adds up fast.