Another small Mashable Interview with Kevin Bruner - article about engine upgrades
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http://mashable.com/2016/03/23/telltale-games-engine-fixes/#AHAL17W0Tsqz
"We've done a lot of work on non-photorealistic rendering, which is like comic book-style rendering," Bruner said. "So we're going to see [the upcoming Batman series] with a much more evolved, higher end graphical look."
With the upgraded engine, Telltale's art directors have more of a free hand in creating "painterly" interactive scenes. Bruner points back to The Wolf Among Us as a comparison, promising that Batman will be "highly evolved from that."
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The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us were singular character stories. They were locked into one person's perspective. Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands both stretched that idea to include a larger "starring" — i.e. playable — cast.
"That was a very tricky thing to figure out, how [we could] tell stories from multiple perspectives," Bruner said. He then pointed to the Borderlands finale as a notable achievement in that regard.
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"When I look back at all the games that we've been doing, there's little pockets of experiments that have been going on, and those get rolled forward into our new games," Bruner said.
"The refining of role-playing is a really iterative process, and it really is just getting better at the craft of interactive storytelling."
They seem to hint that, among other things, they are moving more towards games where you control the overall story as opposed to controlling only one character, as well as hinting that Batman's art style will be "highly evolved" from Wolf Among Us.
Comments
I suppose it's a good thing we're getting more appealing and interesting visuals. Although I don't judge these games based on graphics and they're hardly a priority.
The Wolf Among Us was and still is gorgeous, so I'm excited to see what they end up doing with Batman and future projects in the near future. I'm feeling fairly confident that Batman is going to be on a whole another level in terms of visuals and animation. Michonne is already trying some impressive things (Camera moves with the player, Smooth fight sequences ect.) so as long as they can tweak what they did with michonne (and more) with the updated engine I'll be more than content.