How hard is it to concept and write about alien races as opposed to Humanity?asked by Superflytwo

That is a good question. It's different, obviously once you get into the nuts and bolts of other civilisations and stuff like that, it's always a little tricky. For me it was always the idea that these are still characters and though they maybe Xi'an or Banu or something like that and they come from a different society with different values and stuff like that they're still in a sense characters in a narrative, they still have wants, they have needs, they have things they don't like that and that stuff like that. Some of that might be coloured by the civilisation that they're coming from but it's still just looking at them as characters who are trying to complete a story. It's always been how I look at it.

Yeah and even also on just some of the gameplay side of that something to keep in mind is as, some of our races could possibly get pretty interesting although right now a lot of them have that humanoid form and lot of that is like, if you imagine an arachnid race the kind of crazy culture that would have to associate with it. A lot of extra moving parts.

I remember that's been a popular topic in the ask a dev and stuff like that. You know like having six foot tall, six legged things. Is that, there was some worry about doing it internally, I don't know what the deal is, is it feasible to do that? Is it much harder cause it's a completely unique set of animation or design or?

I need to check with Bender and Riggs on the animation side, but I would definitely say part of it because how an insectoid thing would walk, would move, would act would be much more based on that thing being an insect and not so much being a human, so to have a drastically non-humanoid race it does pose a few extra challenges there.