Lead Narrative Designer - inXile - formerly of Overwatch, Wasteland 3, Baldurโs Gate 3, Tides of Numenera, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Diablo III. He/Him.
To confirm questions Iโve seen elsewhere: yes, Lifeweaver is openly pansexual, and youโll see that expressed through voice lines, conversations, and other content we canโt talk about yet.
Take a deep dive on how our newest Support Hero came to life ๐ธ
The team behind Lifeweaver explores his beautiful design, his botanical background in Thailand, his time at the Vishkar Architech Academy where he met Symmetra, and how he came to develop biolight!
I'm so glad you all finally have this. We've been goofing off about it for what feels like years.
I once made an infinite tunnel of Ventures pointing at Ventures and it's just one of the shitposts lost to time now.
Winston: โIm sorry to call, Genji, but Iโm just so worried. Itโs not like Zenyatta to leave the payload!โ
Genji, massaging his temples: โIs there a pool hall nearby?โ
While we work on this, it is VITAL that you all continue to post names like Sixshooter McHighNoon and Bilbo Bingleblatt.
While these names will likely not be selected, they are an important part of our creative process.
My time with the legendary Overwatch team ended today with the recent round of layoffs. I'm so proud of what my team and I have accomplished.
Now, it's time to find my next dream project. Let me know if you see one!
Game Director
@aaronkellerOW
reflects on our initial ambitions for PvE, what led to the change of plans, and what the future holds for Overwatch 2.
Read it here:
Quick reminder that I wonโt spoil unreleased Overwatch lore on here but WILL say, hey, wow, Season 4 sure is close, huh?
Pretty close, yeah, how interesting.
I sure am excited about that Season 4 and the secrets itโs hiding!
We have a style guide for how each hero texts and itโs so goofy.
Winston uses :) and means it
Torb hasno time for spaces
Reinhardt capitalizes Important Words
Stuff like that.
This is not a drill โ Venture will be leaving
#Overwatch2
soon โ ๏ธ
They'll be going back underground at midnight (PT) on Sunday but will be officially released in Season 10, free for all players, on April 16.
Is anyone else super excited to hear what Venture's voice sounds like? Like just looking at them I can tell their voice is gonna be so good idk why aaaa
I keep forgetting to look into this, and Iโm pretty sure itโs a bug, but until I fix it, letโs all pretend Junkrat spends a few seconds wondering if heโs had his name wrong all this time.
The Overwatch narrative design team has added a lot of subtle character work and details into OW2, and also, some of the dumbest jokes you can possibly imagine.
Iโm very proud of us.
Please welcome Ramattra, leader of Null Sector, and our newest hero.
(And for those of you who have been wanting Zenyatta lore, these two gents were in the Shambali monastery together. I wonder what theyโll say to each other.)
You know I hate giving away Overwatch lore before itโs released, so just IMAGINE how much Iโm looking forward to this week.
The narrative team has been working for YEARS. October 4th is just the start.
"I have watched the Venture trailer and know what to expect from their voice lines now."
Oh my god, you are so wrong.
They should call you Wrongo the Incorrect.
You aren't remotely ready for how much you're going to love them.
I have written five conversations today.
โWho are in these conversations?!?!?!โ you might ask.
I can only say they involve CHARACTERS you KNOW and ONE of them is ZENYATTA.
Time for big news! Iโm
@inXile
โs new lead narrative designer, working with an immensely talented team on something very cool.
Look at that RPG trailer down there.
I am not prone to exaggeration, so believe me when I say that our narrative designers have outdone themselves on Mauga, Venture, and Space Ranger.
The writing is too good.
You may not survive.
Today, I saw an Overwatch voice line set to 1% chance to play, and mostly written to torture another narrative designer with a word they personally hate.
Yes,
@JustinGroot3
wrote it.
Itโs impossible to summarize how much love and care the Overwatch team put into Lifeweaver, but youโre going to be able to sense some of it tomorrow.
Zarya also calls slicers rabbits. Few people know why.
I hope to add many more lines about Zarya calling things and people rabbits, further deepening the mystery.
Venture is here and theyโre burrowing their way to the battlefield! โ๏ธ
Meet our newest Damage Hero and try them out for yourself in their limited-time trial Mar 28 through Mar 31 โจ
callout post for
@ElvisBadger
they are Venture's VA and theyre INCREDIBLY fun to work with and brought SO MUCH charisma to this hero and they NAILED all of Venture's weird little mannerisms, send them to the principal's office and have them EXPELLED (or tell them u love them๐)
Hi all. Iโve been getting a lot of Overwatch lore questions lately, and while I love to answer what I can, I donโt talk about unreleased lore. Itโd be unfair to everyone working on the surprises to come.
Sorry to keep you waiting, but I think itโs going to be worth it!
As showcased in yesterday's Xbox Games Showcase, Overwatch 2's PvE Story Missions arrive in August. We traveled to Blizzard's HQ to be the first to play through an entire mission and learn more about the biggest update to Overwatch 2 yet. Read more here:
Very excited to announce that Iโve been promoted to Lead Narrative Designer for Overwatch 1 and 2!
(Just in case this is the first time weโre meeting, here are some details about me.)
All of this โVenture eats rocksโ discourse ignores the possibility that they pick their teeth with their drill and had a little accident, and I just wanted to point that out as a fellow shitposter and fan of the Overwatchian arts.
(Do NOT add this to a wiki. I am JOKING.)
Iโm considering the next step in my day, and the options are intriguing:
* Apply for exciting story-driven game.
* Start working on 1 of 2 novels again.
* Scratch the dogโs belly.
* Sheโs looking right at me.
* Scratch it already.
While everyone else is celebrating Leap Day, weโre wishing an explosive happy birthday to the one and only Junkrat! ๐ฅณ
Be sure to blow out all your candles AND any lit fuses lying around ๐๐ฃ
Did you know that
@PlayOverwatch
is releasing a BLOCKBUSTER short story collection tomorrow, with new stories set during the Null Sector invasion?
Did you know the narrative design team wrote a story for it?
You gotta check it out. You just gotta!
@CrankyJ
I dutifully recorded a TERRIBLE impression of Roadhog's line above, and sent it.
I can only assume the example helped, because that line went to session and Josh worked his magic.
That is the end of the story.
The file is still on my computer somewhere.
Biding its time.
Story Missions ๐ฅ
New co-op mode ๐ฅ
New Support hero โ๏ธ
And more ๐
Get ready for all-new ways to play in
#Overwatch2
: Invasion, our biggest content drop yet, coming Aug 10 โจ
Lifeweaver is about to blossom ๐ธ
Our newest Support Hero will change the game with an ability kit unlike any other when he launches with Season 4 of
#Overwatch2
on April 11.
We just opened an entry-level narrative design position on the Overwatch team. It involves:
* Writing Hero dialogue.
* Guiding VO sessions.
* Learning fun stuff and meeting cool people.
Interested? Click the posting below!
The Overwatch narrative design team is doing a panel livestream with
@Gnomon_School
this Thursday the 31st. Come learn about game writing and narrative design!
LIFEWEAVER FACT
One thing I want to share is that when we develop new hero, we usually have a place holder icon for them in the game, and a placeholder icon for Lineweaver used to be just medic Baptiste skin, so I replace it with this goofy doodle I drew for his sit emote... ๐คฃ
Every hero is a challenge to write in different ways. Roadhog specifically requires you to say a LOT with very few words, knowing that
@CrankyJ
is going to kill it in the booth, like he always does.
As you know, Iโm very careful about answering Overwatch lore questions.
A lot of the time, the answer is โThis is less mysterious than you think, and I absolutely cannot tell you why yet.โ
Welcome to Antarctica. With a new Control map, the Overwatch 2 team brings us back to a locale steeped in lore and hidden secrets.
Also, yeah, there's penguins.
Overview of the map with designer insight for
@DotEsports
:
@ClearTogether
This was great feedback.
Also, we decided early on in the map story development that Overwatch's NY offers free, safe housing for people. Some of this is in the map VO, with further details planned for later.
"How we hope the world will be" is a big part of our story dev.
โGavin, how often do you almost retweet an Overwatch joke because it made you laugh but then you wonder if people will think itโs canon if you do.โ
Always. 7 times a minute. 24 hours a day.