Gearbox: Borderlands art style helped 'make a certain leap of faith'
by Mike Schramm 
on Jan 23rd 2010 8:00AM
The
Borderlands crew at
Gearbox Software is making the post-mortem interview rounds, and this time Aaron Thibault, Stephen Palmer and Matthew Armstrong
stopped to chat with G4. The interview has some excellent insight into the making of the game: The team originally was finishing up the
Halo PC port when they realized that Bungie had dynamically coded their guns, and wondered what you could do if you dynamically
created guns from that code. "
Halo meets
Diablo" was the answer, and that was Gearbox's premise from the beginning.
They also talk about the famous art style change, and say that the current animated look actually helped players get into the game -- they could "make a certain leap of faith into an understanding that the crazier and wackier and more fun things can exist in this world." And they say that for future installments, they are taking player feedback into account: Both a mini-map and more levels are two things that they didn't quite expect such a call for, so it's a safe bet that we'll see those features in any
future installments of
the "important" franchise. Please?
