Bungie Weekly Update – 07/04/2014
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by Bnet Tru7h
This week at Bungie, we marched seven days closer to Beta.
There were homework assignments to ready us for your onslaught on every platform. I love take home playtests. Destiny is available at my desk every day. I watch urk and OJ play from the corner of my eye while I patrol our social graph for wisdom or evil. For some reason, my favorite place to play Destiny is on my own couch. The experience just feels more real there, in that place where I’ve waged countless battles with old friends.
I have seen the words “Beta Build” on the television in my game room. It’s a promise and a warning. Very soon, untold thousands of Guardians will see the very same thing – both old friends and new. That is what’s been missing from our game. Our techs call this phenomenon “concurrency.” I call it a united community. Four separate theaters of war, one common goal.
Soon. At this point, it becomes more accurate to measure the countdown in days than weeks.
Around the World
Remember last week when I was risking my life on a dangerous mission to make you some new friends? Do you also remember how urk let slip some sweet details that he had been censoring for weeks with his own iron fist of censorship?
That was awesome.
You got trophies and “cheevos.” You heard whispers on the wind about Bungie Day. He even shared a sweet 360 degree panorama of the Cosmodrome.
Well, two can play at that game. Enjoy the graphical arms race while it escalates right before your eyes. Be sure to thank Technical Artist Nate Hawbaker (callsign: Veegie) for his mastery of our world-building tools. These sweeping vistas that are ripe for exploration make my frequent flier high score seem miniscule by comparison. Check out some of the destinations you’ll explore in the final form of Destiny.
The Tower, overlooking the last safe city on Earth.
The Cosmodrome, made strange by the passage of time.
The Hellmouth Citadel, many chambers below the surface of the Moon.
The Shattered Coast of Venus, claimed by nature (and Vex).
Beyond the Buried City, across the crimson dunes of Mars.
Perhaps the lesson here is that, when two entities compete for your attention, everyone wins. Competition is good. It inspires us all to achieve greater things.
Enjoy the view.
That Chicken Has Bite
Before Bungie Day, we have another party to attend. Before the Destiny Beta, there is another battle to wage. Our sites are set on the Rooster Teeth Expo.
Once more unto the breach of the Crucible. Twelve white-listed boxes will take center stage. Willing combatants will be plucked from the crowd to battle for glory, bragging rights, and charity. We’ll be granting wishes and raising money to see to it that more such wishes can come true.
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Check out the Bungie Fireteam that’s being launched toward Austin.
Real Name: James Schomer
Bungie Title: Investment Designer
Which means: Create, package up, and dole out all the Destiny sweetmeats: equipment, experience, exclusives, engrams, emblems, enchiladas, etc.
Combat Specialty: Invisible backstabbery
Austin Tourism Request: Steal Jack Pattillo’s beard
Real Name: John Stvan
Bungie Title: Web and Mobile Designer
Which means: Graphics and Feature design for the Destiny Companion, S’medium Workout Shirt Aficionado, and Hero of the village of Santa Poco
Combat Specialty: Magia del Espacio
Austin Tourism Request: Whatever this is
Real Name: Classified
Bungie Title: Community Manager
Which means: Blog cultivation, social engineering, tap dancing
Combat Specialty: Belt-fed Nova Bombardier
Austin Tourist request: Barbequed Armadillo?
We will battle luminaries from the community, random warriors from the crowd, and perhaps Burnie himself. Some of them will be in our posse. We will lock eyes with the rest of them over the top of our monitors.
The game is afoot, RTX. No matter who wins, the real victors will be the Make-A-Wish Foundation. How much we donate will depend on how brave your audience will be in the heat of battle.
That Donation Came From the Community
Sales of the Destiny Alpha Commemorative t-shirt are closed. If you snatched one from the Bungie Store, you own a piece of history. You also own a token of a charitable drive that will make a difference in the real world. We don’t just thrive on making our game better at Bungie, after all.
There were profits. How much is for us to know. We’re not keeping any of it. We’re giving it to the Brian Morden Foundation. Here’s why:
Brian was Bungie’s very first visitor from Make-A-Wish, in 2001
His voice has been in every Bungie game since his visit
His foundation funds childhood cancer treatment and research
The Bungie Community has supported this charity since its inception
Thank you for your generosity, and for your curiosity about the journey that will deliver us to a truly finished product.
