I just wish we’d shipped before they did! 😉 >WS: Well, you won’t be seeing that motto on ANYONE’s box anytime soon, I’m guessing! As for Daikatana, I haven’t had a chance to play it so I don’t have an opinion.>WS: First of all, it’s NOT ION’s Storm’s POLICY to delay! We, like everyone in this business, try to take as little time as we can without compromising quality. If anything, I’m flattered by the comparison. Like I said, it’s just a question of those folks being friends and colleagues and us all sitting around talking about the kinds of games we want to make and being in agreement about it. In fact, it’s a little embarrassing to admit but Deus Ex was in development BEFORE Shock 2 got started and its overall design didn’t change as a result of seeing what they did. Is it surprising that we share design philosophies and want to make similar kinds of games? I don’t think I’d characterize DX as a rip-off of anything. I spent years working with some of the folks who made Shock 2. First of all, I was the producer of the original System Shock, developed by some incredibly talented folks at LookingGlass Technologies. There’s an argument to be made that we may have been too assembly-line-like in our development process but the end result is pretty solid, gameplay-wise so we didn’t go too far wrong, if at all.>WS: Couple of things. It all fed back into the game, we played, we revised. Basically, we had people on the team who spent much of their time focusing on system design, others who focused primarily on level design and still others who focused on AI. Of the things you list, I think all but graphics fall clearly in the gameplay arena. We licensed the Unreal engine specifically so we could focus on content creation, which paid off big-time, I think. Immediate peril followed by catharsis followed by a little denouement, before another action sequence… That was our thinking, anyway.>WS: It’s all about gameplay. You start out with some scene-setting interaction on the dock then - pow! - you’re in the thick of things and THEN, once you’ve dealt with a crisis, you get into the character interaction and story stuff. That’s kind of what we ended up doing in Deus Ex. If you think about it, every James Bond film starts 007 off in an action sequence, then the credits roll and THEN the story proper starts. What we found was that players wanted more action up front. Talk to everyone first and then get into the action. Right now, we think Glide and D3D are enough.>WS: Many moons ago, the first mission - which ended up being the demo - was set up as you describe. If enough people tell us they want or need it, we’ll see. Should we just dive right into a full-blown Deus Ex 2 (which really ought to have multiplayer right out of the gate)? Should we put together a fairly small-scale, standalone add-in that allows competitive multiplayer scenarios? Should we do a multiplayer patch? We’re still evaluating the possibilities.>WS: I’m afraid we just don’t support OpenGL and don’t really anticipate supporting it in the future. But there are a lot of issues to resolve and we’re talking right now about what would be the best way to handle it. Soon as things settle down a bit, we’ll figure out what we have to do to package up our tools and get them out there.>WS: We want multiplayer as much as anyone, believe me! The heavily interactive world and character customization stuff just screams for multiplayer support.
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Now, having said all that, we don’t have a time frame yet - we’re still trying to get foreign versions of the game wrapped up, track and evaluate problems players are having, now that the full game is on the shelves and we have many thousands of playtesters, and so on. And you know people are going to come up with all sorts of cool weapons, objects and augmentations and stuff that we never even dreamed of. It’ll be interesting to see what players do with a tool that allows them to create NPCs who talk, fight or both (depending on how you interact with them). We’ll be releasing not just our level editing tools (a modified version of UnrealEd) but also ConEdit (our conversation editor).
But recently, hearing about and seeing what folks have done with the LookingGlass tools, I’ve changed my mind.
I’ve done a complete 180 on the subject.įor the longest time I felt that making DX missions would be so much tougher than making, say, a cool map for the average shooter, that releasing the tools wouldn’t work. >WS: You bet we’re planning to release our content creation tools to the public. What is the current situation with the Deus Ex level editor will it be released to the public?
This is an interview with Warren Spector, then director/producer of Deus Ex, archived here for posterity and that was originally published on, a domain that we own.ġ.
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