- Shoot him with the Lighter!
- What, the thing you use to start a fire?
- No, the weapon Mike is carrying.
- Who?
- Never mind. You might just as well restart the Flashback.
- The what?
The names used in Bulletstorm today aren’t necessarily what they’ve been during development. Read more to find out what a Lavagun is.
Bulletstorm, Epic Games and EA Present: Snoop Dogg
Last Saturday at the Raleigh Amphitheater in Raleigh, NC., University of North Carolina students were treated to a concert by Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., also known as the one and only Snoop Dogg. The concert was sponsored by Bulletstorm, Epic Games and EA Games. The evening started with Epic Games Design Director, Cliff Bleszinski introducing Snoop and bringing him onstage. From then on, the UNC students rocked, sang and danced to some of Snoop’s greatest hits like “What’s my Name” and “Drop it Like it’s Hot”.
In this second post about the development of Guns of Stygia DLC map I will try to give you an insight in to the process of lighting the worlds you kick ass in.
One of the things I appreciate with working here is that I’m free to do whatever I want with my office area. Figurines on the desk of course, but also posters on the walls and a blow-up Spider-Man. But the thing that really made me feel I’ve come to the right place is something else.
See, at one of my previous employers I had a traumatic experience, being deceived and not getting what I was promised…
They call it a blood symphony for a reason. If you love Bulletstorm like we do, you’ll have noticed the awesome soundtrack. And since our fans are pretty much the best in the whole universe — space pirates included — we thought we’d provide a free download of the Bulletstorm soundtrack in all its glory.
Finally, you’re able to get your hands on our first DLC for Bulletstorm – the Gun Sonata pack. Hooray!
It includes 5 new maps, one of which is a brand new Echo map called Guns of Stygia, that I was the level designer on. We thought we could take this opportunity to give a little insight into the creative process, so this is going to be a bit of a super mega special article written in different parts.
This first one from me is going to be an overview of the kind of thinking behind a level that goes on in the early stages. Tomas will follow this up with a post from his perspective as a lighting artist, and later I’ll come back to go into nitty-gritty level design stuff in more detail and, and… well, it’ll be so amazing it might just change your life*.
We never expected Waggleton to be as popular as he became after people played Bulletstorm. But then again, to be fair, he’s my favorite character in the game so I understand why it happened.
If you haven’t played Bulletstorm and met him, this post has some SPOILERS.
A search online proved Waggleton P. Tallylicker’s rise to fame.
For those of you out there who likes looking at pretty things, Epic has just released a new video showing off some amazing things possible using the Unreal Engine 3. It’s the game engine used to make games like Gears of War and of course Bulletstorm!
To all you PC Gamers out there who haven’t tried Bulletstorm yet, the PC Demo is now available through Steam and Games for Windows Live!
What are you waiting for?
One of my responsibilities during the development of Bulletstorm was managing the names for the Skillshots. Not to say that I came up with them all, because I didn’t. Everyone helped out and each idea was crazier than the next, but I hold great pride in one of the Skillshots I named – The MAN TOAST.
Do you even know what that is?
