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4/5/2012 12:26:45 AM
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When did destiny development start? Some interesting research...

Some of the longer term members here may remember BentLama (Nathan Walpole) being a Bungie employee. BentLama also worked at 343i recently. He has previously worked on Halo 2 (Bungie), Halo 3 (Bungie) & Halo 4 (343i/MGS). Looking at his resume ([url=http://www.bentllama.com/resume_nathanWalpole.pdf]link here[/url]) I see work on "undisclosed projects" reaching back to 2007 with Bungie. It seems interesting to me that a senior animator and conceptual developer for enabling the development team was working on "plural" as in multiple undisclosed projects. What does this mean? I'm not sure but I wanted to post and get some speculation going. Perhaps he worked on Reach, maybe Destiny commenced all the way back then as well? Personally I think Destiny is in that mix. I imagine his specialty in proof of concept, pre-vis and character rigging with test animators as well as design viability studies attribute him to working in the very early stages of game development lifecycles. Any ideas on the projects BentLama worked on during those late years at Bungie? I'm thinking Destiny has been around for longer than we suspect. Bungie have known for many years now that they were buying themselves back from Microsoft and moving away from Halo. I recall Reach had a small team assigned to retool existing Halo technologies to deliver their best game and ODST was the main focus. However I believe a semi-fast one was pulled on Microsoft and more resources were devoted behind closed doors to Destiny during both those game developments. This leads me to think Destiny is closer than we think... Side Note: Another point of interest here is I see 343i had him working on concept animation work for and "undisclosed Halo project" in 2008-2010. This means work for Halo 4 has been going on for over 4 years now.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Simjon4two I found this in an interview from 2007: [quote]So from that point of view we don't have a shortage of people happy to make Halo games, but obviously there are guys that have shipped Halo games for ten years, and they are definitely ready to work on new IPs or create new things. We're actively engaged with the senior staff here on a couple of new IPs right now, but the team that can generate cool Halo games is still running full-speed as well. I'm sure those senior Bungie guys will sit in as advisors - on pre-production, design review and polishing the game as we build it - but they won't have to get their hands as dirty in the bits of pieces of the next couple of Halo games.[/quote] Sounds like some grizzled ancients did already work on new stuff while ODST and Reach were made.[/quote] No that is interesting and seems to confirm the timeline for Destiny "really getting underway". I'm certain the moment Bungie closed the MS buy back deal that started on Destiny as a priority. This then left then open to trying new things with ODST & Reach.

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