754:"The first version was run around with a gun and shoot things and stuff explodes. Very high octane action game. Then it got dialed in a different direction. The second one you were more of a computer hacker and you're always hacking stuff all the time. In another one - what was it? - it moved in a more spy direction, trying to quietly take out enemies and not be seen. It kept on just changing and changing and changing until it got into a more story-oriented direction."
731:"It was probably about a year ago, or so. But it doesn't really take that long really. Gravity Bone started out very different from what it was and that ended up getting scrapped and then I kind of reiterated off that, and that version also got scrapped, and so on and so forth until this version came out. There were maybe about four different revisions done."
766:"I wanted the player to think the level was going to end, and then it ends up kind of twisting, and then the player thinks he's dead, but he's not really and then he thinks the level's over, but it's not really over and there's a whole bunch more. So, yeah, there's an element of toying around with the player's expectations."
718:"Brendon Chung works as a level designer for Pandemic Studios. He's worked on Full Spectrum Warrior and the upcoming Lord of the Rings: Conquest. So if your first reaction after playing Gravity Bone was, 'Why isn't this guy working for a major developer?', then rest assured he is indeed working for a major developer."
553:"If I was to classify it in any particular way it’s like a traditional platformer/puzzler but instead of the story being progressed by lengthy dialogue or massive walls of text you’re instead treated to environmental clues, flash backs and weird jump cuts that allows you to piece the story together as you go along."
758:"I just wanted to create a universe where stuff like this is normal, where stuff like this isn't strange like we think it is. "Oh, sure, I'm on a mission to take a picture of a bird and they're willing to pay me top dollar for that." It's perfectly normal espionage work for the people in this world."
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and features blocky-headed characters that are infinitely more interesting to look at and interact with than the frightening
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