"Even in a middle of hatred and killings there are things worth living for. A wonderful meeting, or a beautiful thing can exist" (Hayao Miyzaki)
Planescape, I probably don't have to explain the sense of brilliant weirdness and fantastic exploration to readers of this site and Chris (Avellone, my boss) really hates it when people get fanboy on him (but you should probably dress up like Fall-From-Grace and wait for him in his car, he loves that.)
- Brian Mitsoda
I have a kona blend coffee addiction, only with hazelnut creamer, though. I make notes in all the books I read and put post-it notes in every comic book I read so I can remember certain passages and images that would make cool spells, creatures, character names, or locations. This also prevents me from borrowing books from my friends, as I have a tendency to mark them up with pens and write game ideas in them. I feel like I've worked on every science fiction genre I never imagined I would ever touch. Like Star Wars. And Aliens. And Star Trek. If I could go back in time to "past Chris" and explain to him that not only would he eventually date girls and not stress about dying alone, I would also explain to him that he needs to appreciate all the hours he spent absorbing Star Wars, Aliens, and Star Trek and that it would eventually develop into a lucrative, fulfilling career that would make his soul happy. End advice for everyone: do what you love to do, there's a career doing it or something close to it somewhere out there. : )
What’s your personal opinion of themes like sex and violence in video and computer games?
I love sex. I love the fact my parents loved having sex. Sex is great. Our species would die out without sex. I consider taboos on sex ridiculous in any M-rated title where the label says "hey, there's sex in here." In short, sex is great for the species, and it made me who I am today... as in, alive. I don't have an opinion on violence because I am too busy thinking about sex.
Tell us about one or several of your projects which you would have loved to release but you could not for various reasons.
I wanted to do a Planescape Torment sequel called Lost Souls where it took the lives of Deionarra, Ravel, Dak'kon and others from the original and told their tangential stories in an RPG format before and during the events of Torment.
I also wanted to do one other game set in the Planescape universe that wasn't tied to Torment itself, called Planescape: Tesseract. I actually turned a sample of the premise into a 2-3 hour pen-and-paper game session that played at GDC one year with a lot of press folks (and Ray and Greg from BioWare), giving each of the folks a pre-made player character and a time limit to accomplish their goals. I really liked the character designs, and I'd love to develop those characters, but most of them only work in the context of a Planscape-style universe.
- Avellone
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- Brian Mitsoda
I have a kona blend coffee addiction, only with hazelnut creamer, though. I make notes in all the books I read and put post-it notes in every comic book I read so I can remember certain passages and images that would make cool spells, creatures, character names, or locations. This also prevents me from borrowing books from my friends, as I have a tendency to mark them up with pens and write game ideas in them. I feel like I've worked on every science fiction genre I never imagined I would ever touch. Like Star Wars. And Aliens. And Star Trek. If I could go back in time to "past Chris" and explain to him that not only would he eventually date girls and not stress about dying alone, I would also explain to him that he needs to appreciate all the hours he spent absorbing Star Wars, Aliens, and Star Trek and that it would eventually develop into a lucrative, fulfilling career that would make his soul happy. End advice for everyone: do what you love to do, there's a career doing it or something close to it somewhere out there. : )
What’s your personal opinion of themes like sex and violence in video and computer games?
I love sex. I love the fact my parents loved having sex. Sex is great. Our species would die out without sex. I consider taboos on sex ridiculous in any M-rated title where the label says "hey, there's sex in here." In short, sex is great for the species, and it made me who I am today... as in, alive. I don't have an opinion on violence because I am too busy thinking about sex.
Tell us about one or several of your projects which you would have loved to release but you could not for various reasons.
I wanted to do a Planescape Torment sequel called Lost Souls where it took the lives of Deionarra, Ravel, Dak'kon and others from the original and told their tangential stories in an RPG format before and during the events of Torment.
I also wanted to do one other game set in the Planescape universe that wasn't tied to Torment itself, called Planescape: Tesseract. I actually turned a sample of the premise into a 2-3 hour pen-and-paper game session that played at GDC one year with a lot of press folks (and Ray and Greg from BioWare), giving each of the folks a pre-made player character and a time limit to accomplish their goals. I really liked the character designs, and I'd love to develop those characters, but most of them only work in the context of a Planscape-style universe.
- Avellone
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