Does game development drive the story, or does the story drive the game development?asked by Space Herpy

It's really kind of both, and it's great that way. We'll come up with a fun idea and go pitch it to Design and vice versa. Design will come up with a really fun scenario and come to us to help spice it up or smooth out the corners of it to make it make sense in the universe. So it's a lot of conversation back and forth, and I kind of think that's the way game development should be.

I mean, it's worth noting that Chris is very intent on the game feeling cinematic and hanging on to a really cinematic sense of story and character. So the two things dovetail a lot. I think the writing team drives the story and the dramatic parts of the game, and then when it turns into gameplay, design has some ascendancy in that. But it's definitely an ongoing collaboration.