And although Guerrilla has noted that most people seem to go for the last option, the team was not so quick to turn the other cheek. You can decide whether to retaliate with your own stone, discard your primitive missile, or disarm Bast from throwing another rock.
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One of the first flashpoints is deciding how to react to Bast, a young boy who injuries Aloy with a rock during her formative years as an outcast. Essentially, you’re emoting through her, which can affect certain elements by the end of the game. The narrative driven flashpoints let you define Aloy by choosing her reaction to particular events. Of course, even with all of these important elements, there’s still one part which is vital to forging Aloy’s steely personality – you. And those are complexities that we as writers tried hard to understand, and to write it in subtle ways – but it wouldn’t work if we didn’t find an actress who could pull that off.” Character and consequences “Aloy is somebody who couldn’t help but dream of being accepted and belonging to a community but at the same time hating that same community for the treatment she’s experienced – there’s that conflict in herself about wanting to belong. And finally there’s an underlying vulnerability and woundedness based on Aloy’s experiences growing up as an outcast, being out in the wild. Then there’s an intelligence and articulate wit that’s realised in Ashly’s voice. “First is her incredible toughness and grit, that feeling of someone of substance and someone you wouldn’t want to mess with. “Her voice transmits the three qualities we needed for Aloy. “We were especially fortunate to find Ashly,” says John. Enter BAFTA and Emmy nominated actress Ashly Burch. So, with the environment and scenario set, and Aloy’s visual presence forcing its way to the fore, there was another vital aspect in crafting the heroine’s personality – her voice. “At the beginning of the project we didn’t exactly know what the rules of the world would be, so between these pillars, Aloy had to be a very agile and fluid character, and the combat mechanics and stealth system had to be tight.” Giving voice to Aloy’s personality It was really important to make the whole thing feel coherent and deliver a unique experience to the player. “Then she had to contrast against the other two: beautiful, lush nature and the machines. “Aloy was the first,” explains Mathijs de Jonge, Game Director. But Guerrilla didn’t just have the creative muses pushing the charismatic flame-haired hunter to the fore – it also had a valuable and fundamental game design trick up its sleeve: the three pillars of what Horizon is about. Integration between character, narrative and gameplay is something vital to any story driven title. “And in one particular image she’s seated on a hillside looking out at this valley which has these ancient ruins… it seemed like she stepped out of the concept art and said ‘I’m going to be the lead character in this game'”. “In the initial concept art there was this young hunter with red hair,” says John Gonzales, Lead Narrative Designer.
It’s testament to her excellent design (something Horizon Zero Dawn is lavished with on a whole) – but like many iconic characters there’s a distinct feeling that Aloy wasn’t so much created… as she was discovered. Aloy’s rise has been incredible to observe, given that for most of the world she didn’t even exist until June 2015. In part one, Art Director Jan-Bart van Beek, Lead Narrative Designer John Gonzales, Game Director Mathijs de Jonge and Managing Director Hermen Hulst talk the making of their heroine Aloy.īetween an impressive cosplay scene and massive fan art community, few outside of Guerrilla Games‘ could imagine the instant popularity of Horizon Zero Dawn‘s heroine straight out of the gate. As we countdown to Horizon Zero Dawn’s release on 1st March, Guerrilla Games reflects on the creation of its action RPG, and shares stories about the key beats that shaped its new game.
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