In this article, it is learned that, while DONTNOD were busy working on Life is Strange 2, needing adequate time to build a new story and characters, Square Enix wanted to bring in another studio to develop a side entry in the franchise. In May 2020, an article published by Shacknews talked about the storytelling in the franchise up to this point. Then, we explore each scene and often discover what blocking and body language works the best for each moment." We do workshops to explore the body language and refine the details that make what that character unique and interesting. I make sure they deeply understand who they are playing, and the details of the life they are living. My directing style requires my actors own their characters. "I love working with the actors to bring the characters to life. Webb Pickersgill, Before the Storm's Co-Game Director at Deck Nine Games has commented that: īefore the Storm is the first narrative adventure game Deck Nine Games has worked on in collaboration with publisher Square Enix and the original Square Enix team that participated in the development of the original Life is Strange (including Game Designer Alejandro Arque).
The development team consists of motion capture professionals and cinematic artists who will be working 'in house'. StoryForge allows the integration of "motion capture, narrative choices, music and more". The studio rebranded due to their shift to story-driven-narrative games following their development of the new toolset called StoryForge, which focuses on "meaningful storytelling and rich gameplay" and would function similar to the engine used by Telltale Games. On this same date, it was revealed that the studio had partnered with a major AAA publisher (which we now know to be Square Enix). On May 31, 2017, it was announced that long time PlayStation developer Idol Games had rebranded and would be known from this date as Deck Nine Games.
The cinematic tool StoryTeller is essential for creating film-like moments blending a mix of automation and easy to use controls to give artists creative command of features such as lip syncing, blending animations, emotion events, cameras and camera effects (depth of field, chromatic aberration etc.).
Additional functionalities include scene graphs, motion capture, audio recording scripts and output to their custom cinematic tool. It allows writers to focus "on amazing characters, intriguing plots and agonizing choices" and spend more time on writing, reading and playing a story before it goes into production. The writing tool PlayWrite integrates writing traditional screenplays and the branches and consequences found in narrative games. Their efforts since 2015 had been directed towards developing "StoryForge", a suite of tools for writers, directors, cinematic artists and content creators that allows them to create an interactive story and turn that story into a fully functioning narrative game.
Over the years, Deck Nine (as Idol Minds) has worked with publishers such as Sony Entertainment and Activision.įor the three years prior to the release of Before the Storm, Deck Nine had been focused on expanding their genre to narrative adventure games.
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The company's earliest hit is a snowboarding series called Cool Boarders. Deck Nine Games (formerly known as Idol Minds up until May 2017) is a small, independent game developer studio dedicated to the "forging of stories and gameplay into transformative entertainment experiences." They were founded in 1997 by Mark Lyons, originally focused on PlayStation 1 games.
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