Dennys Meetings

* See also Concept_Ideas
* See also Bioshock_Illogic
* See also Derpistan
* See also Wave_of_the_hand
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Those Design Meetings for BIOSHOCK INFINITE
"They say that putting 'Infinite' on a game's name helps sales"
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Concept to Explain 'Floating' :
"Wow, What If we have the City Thing(Columbia) keep going back in time so it sticks in the same place ?"
(( That was an actual proposal mentioned in the interviews when there was at least a pretense to have some kind of plausible explanation. ))
"OK that's good. We just ignore the World turning and orbiting and all that ... OR do we use that to make it move ???"
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"SO They just jacked it up into the sky and turned this thing on, and it hangs there by itself. AND We can thus get rid of all those stupid big balloons."
"Good."
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"Hey We have these Portal Things going other places, maybe we can have some great big chains fastened through them to the ground somewhere else ? The City can hang upon those." ( You could use them also to pull the city around - with giant winches. )
"Write that down."
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"Wait. Particles, yeah that's it Particles !! They'll be Glowey things too. Those will look pretty. "
"Some kind of glowing radioactive blue - that's it !!! I think we have our Mutants !!!"
"Awesome. Those will make a good object to paste everywhere. The Particles, not the Mutants."
Heh.
"AND Green Steam to power it all !!! - that will look pretty too."
"Nah, too much trouble to Render that everywhere. Glowing things is sufficient."
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"Can we make the people in the City worship the Quantum god, now ?"
"No, the plot is already getting too complicated. They simply worship Comstock like in a Jim Jones Cult."
"So are they all going to commit suicide ?"
"Levine hasn't decided yet. That subject is a bit controversial now ..."
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"Oh, they want the City to move about to tie it to historic things like the HMS Titanic and the Boxer Rebellion. Well, I'm sure we can just say it does that, as nothing else is much real anyway."
"Remember, we just have to dress up the terrain enough so that the Story Thing can be spouted by the Characters between all the constant Gunbattles."
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"But all this floatyness and 3 Dimensional Terrain ? That's alot of work."
"No, we can't do too much of that. The Game Engine doesn't do it too well. Three DimensionalitySpock :" "Three Dee Thinking Captain ..." - in "Wrath of Kahn" just confuses most Players. So it is mostly to be just the usual flat levels." 
"OK so the parts they see but don't walk thru can have all that spectacularness."
"Just obscure half of it with clouds and have it far away and becomes little more than a 'SketchUp' project."
"Good enough."
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"OK, so none of this stuff really works, so we won't really try to explain it much at all."
"No Problem, nobody understands the real stuff anyway, but many probably think they've heard about it being all 'Sciencey' and shit."
"Good enough."
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"But, but, what about the Ponies ? We have to have Ponies - Flying Ponies like Pegasus, but they have to be mechanical."
"No. The UE3 Game Engine doesn't support INDEPENDANTLY moving Player-occupied vehicles, So I guess we will have anything like that be static on the ground, canned animation running on a rail, so they won't have to do any fancy moving much, except in cutscenes."
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Particles' is Particles :
"Aren't those Quantum things really-really tiny like that sciencey guy told us ?"
"Ignore that. We are just trying to write a game story here, and can do whatever we want."
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" 'Supposition' ... I'm sure we can use that buzzword for something."
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== DLC Retroactive Stuff went onto those Napkins ? ==
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At That Denny's Meeting :
"Hey 'Wounded Knee' !!!"
"Yeah - that's Edgy !!! Evil America, we gots it !!!"
"We can have 'Guy' (( what they designated Booker before they had the name chosen )) be an Indian".
"No, 'part' Indian and killing his own people - You know, Corrupted by American 'Exceptualism' !! "
"Yeah, THAT will be Neat !!! He was in the Army so that gives him cred for all the later shooting ..."
"Wait. In the end does he 'SCALP' The Girl' ????" (( 'The Girl' was the placeholder before Elizabeth was named ... ))
"That WOULD Be NEAT - WHAT A TWIST !!!! - He could walk off into the Sunset, a bloody scalp in his hand ..."
... And it went on like that from there ...
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"INFINITE SHOCK" ?
"Nah, that just sounds STUPID ..."
"Quantum Shock ?"
"Hmmm There is some booze that has that name already ..."
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Infinite Game Evolution ( Brainstorming Session At Denny's ) :
Things heard in some early brainstorming meetings :
: "Ponies - Ponies are popular"
: "But we HAVE TO HAVE 'Execution Moves', we simply have too ..."
: "Disney Princess, but combined with 'Mechanic Girl' ...
: "I know - What if we recreate the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln ??"
: "Levine wants little girls again ... Isn't that getting a little old ?"
: "We have to find something as Iconic as the Big Daddy. Uh ... something ... Batman-like ??? Hmmmm .... Yes...."
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SAD TO THINK THIS MAY HAVE BEEN HOW IT WENT ...
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A pretty "Niagra Falls" of Water flows off an edge ... Magically gets back up to the top ... and SURFING !!!!Surfing !!!! I can just hear the Mass Derping at that Denny's Meeting ... 
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