5/18/2023 0 Comments Warframe xakuSokolowski says Digital Extremes trusted Eornheit enough to give them a blank check to take the concept in any direction they wanted, using Alonso's and eaterofstorms' brief descriptions as a baseline. ![]() ![]() "It was an opportunity to take part in the creation of the game that I play and that I really like, and to contribute to its development." "When I was offered to participate in the project, I was very excited," Eornheit says. Four artists from the community were chosen, based on their previous work: Eornheit (opens in new tab) would handle the overall design of Xaku, Faven (opens in new tab) would create an alternate cosmetic helmet, Karu (opens in new tab) would design a special Sydana (the cape), and kedemel (opens in new tab) would create Xaku's signature melee weapon. Sokolowski says the most exciting part of this project for her was being able to hire several of them to flesh out this idea of a broken warframe. Given Warframe's bizarre space ninja look, it's no surprise that it attracts a large audience of fan artists. It was an opportunity to take part in the creation of the game that I play and that I really like, and to contribute to its development. (Image credit: Digital Extremes) Bringing it to life The real work would be actually designing Xaku's looks and abilities. Choosing a theme was just the first step, though. That's when senior game designer Pablo Alonso came up with a more fleshed out concept of a warframe pieced together from the shattered remains of other warframes, deviating slightly from the original idea to envision a warframe that wasn't just assembled incorrectly, but was scavenged. The concept of "broken," however, could be interpreted a bunch of different ways even within eaterofstorms' description. It's not the only way that we've approached designing warframes, but it is one of the primary ways." He had been working on that for a long time-the way that she looks and her abilities. ![]() "Khora, for example, that was Michael Skyers' baby, as I guess you would say it. Most of the previous 44 warframes had all been born of a clear idea that its designers fleshed out into a cohesive aesthetic and suite of abilities. "I had idea of a frame who never worked as intended but made his own way regardless."īut Sokolowski says the team was still worried. " tell the truth I never thought of the broken Warframe as a meme," easterofstorms later clarified on the forums. "I don't want to say it this way, but initially it was like, oh, is this kind of like a meme theme? Was this voted on because it was kind of like a silly concept?" Without more context, Digital Extremes wasn't sure if the theme was a genuine idea or a joke. Sokolowski says that concept took the developers by surprise.
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