After being pulled on Steam earlier this year, Ironmace's PvPvE fantasy game Dark and Darker has been released in early access... but not on Steam.
Early Pikmin concepts included creatures powered by AI chips and "Yoshi-like" blobs
19.07.2023 - 14:59 / gamedeveloper.com / Ai
Nintendo has shared an extensive behind-the-scenes look at how the Pikmin franchise was born as part of its ongoing 'Ask the Developer' interview series.
With the launch of Pikmin 4 on the horizon, franchise veterans Shigeru Miyamoto, Yuki Kando, Shigefumi Hino, Masamichi Abe, and Junju Morii sat down to discuss how they shaped the original game.
The group recalls how the title began life as an eclectic medley of ideas that felt somewhat incoherent. For instance, Abe explains how the project "wasn't initially an action game" and shunned many of the naturalistic elements that Pikmin has become known for.
At that early stage, the idea was to let players control a lot of characters (which remains a core part of the Pikmin experience), but Hino explains "the game we had in mind included creatures with AI chips in their heads" rather than the plant-like creatures that have become so recognizable today.
Hino adds that players would control those AI-driven creatures by swapping out the chips in their head, inserting "thought chips" such as "combat," "heal," or "help friends" to dish out commands.
"As they explored the map and gained more experience, their chip capacity would increase. In other words, they'd become smarter," continues Hino. "At the same time, we added personalities such as grumpy and cowardly via 'emotion chips,' and depending on which emotion chip the character had, the response, such as 'attack' or 'defend,' would change. And so, we were experimenting with these kinds of prototypes."
The team also had a vision to leverage a top-down view in-game, which meant they'd need to make the gender and personality of each character identifiable from what's on their head. That requirement eventually led Morii to create a
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