Piratesoftware interview 2024-12-13

On 2024-12-13, well-known Twitch Streamer and game dev Thor (PirateSoftware) interviewed Joel Bylos, the Creative Director of Dune Awakening

• Game design document, using Confluence for Dune.
• The general creative direction process for the game - letting directors
• Joel's history with Dune
  • From the books, the old Dune games
• The Funcom CEO being a huge Dune fan too, wanted a new project, then reached out to Legendary
• The beta discord has a Worm survivor support group channel!
• We start in Hagga Basin, behind the shield wall, which is somewhat safer than the
• In the beta, there are large guilds and solo players - the game can support both styles of play.
• Originally the game started out as a single world with server meshing, but changed given technical requirements
• There is no building in the social hubs. Hagga Basin is persistent and permanent, Deep Desert fully resets and changes weekly.
• Deep Desert is full open PvP, only take what you want to risk.
• There is an idea to create the "Coriolis Race" - a standard MMO pattern of activity from the weekend, down.
• The Coriolis storm happens on a Tuesday Night.
• The Cartography system can be used for players to create their own maps every week of the deep desert, and share it between their guilds or trade it