How developers pay digital tribute to loved ones in their games

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How developers pay digital tribute to loved ones in their games
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Shooting a window after a co-op spotlight section in the original Gears of War will change the neon sign of a gas station to 'Gab's'—the name of lead level designer Lee Perry's wife.

Hacking other players to pieces across maps set in rural Japan, you might see Hanako: Honor & Blade as just another multiplayer combat game. However, what creative director Matt Canei sees—and has infused into every aspect of the game—is a playable representation of his mother’s battle with cancer. The red forces of the Hanako clan represent his mother, and are depicted as possessing areas of cel-shaded beauty.

“Tim Ihrén was Tooth and Tail’s biggest fan, a moderator in our Discord community and our best player during our three-year closed alpha,” says Pocketwatch Games cofounder Andy Schatz. “His playstyle reflected what we considered the ideal experience of playing Tooth and Tail, so we balanced the game around him – when Tim was winning our community-run tournaments, we knew the game was balanced the way we wanted it to be.

Over on mobile platforms, the way games writer Jana Sloan van Geest approached a fairly mundane problem for Battlestar Galactica: Squadrons ended up reuniting a family. “When I was writing for BSG: Squadrons, Universal asked us to write lore for each of the ships in the fleet. Someone decided that each ship should have a named captain, but a lot of the captains of canon ships in the show were never named. That meant I had a lot of names to come up with.

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