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[Hrungr]

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz

#space never sleeps.

[lynroy]

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz

Got the first batch of banter files from my writer this morning, so I'll be spending part of the day working on banter implementation #space

 

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz 

Which basically means I'll be playing the mission, place banter triggers, see how it fits, move triggers around, until it paces well. #space

 

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz 

And then eventually sit through it with my writer, see if we need to lengthen or shorten banter in spots, until we're happy. #space

[Lady Sif]

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz 

Spoiler alert, we're never going to be happy with it, so we keep tweaking it until they take it away from us. #space

 

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz 

Is this the part in the process where I start killing my writer's wordbabies? Maybe it is. Maybe it is. #space

 

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz 

Even this first banter file for the first little bit of this mission is full of stuff. It'll be interesting trying to fit all of it. #space

[xXRengaiaXx]

I wish I had Jos job...Sadly its near impossible to get into the industry. For this I envy the devs

[Sartoz]

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@Jos or anyone that knows:

 

Techie question. "During banter file testing, does the trigger execute a banter-text-to-speech program?".

 

Curious

 

Edit: BTW, Jos, I like your "developer diary" tweets... much appreciated

[Lady Sif]

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz

Today's #space working music: https://www.youtube....v=sYD_U1CChew …

[Han Shot First]

 

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz

Today's #space working music: https://www.youtube....v=sYD_U1CChew …

 

 

Good choice. 

 

Oblivion wasn't the greatest Sci Fi film, but it did have a good soundtrack. Some of the tracks also sound like they could be from a Mass Effect game.

[Sion1138]

The banterizer.

[xXRengaiaXx]

Good choice. 

 

Oblivion wasn't the greatest Sci Fi film, but it did have a good soundtrack. Some of the tracks also sound like they could be from a Mass Effect game.

 

Listening to Epica would be my first choice.

[Rahmiel]

I find the band Jakob from New Zealand to be really awe inspiring with regards to space and exploration.

From their latest release.

 

Anyway, re: banter.. I always always ALWAYS hate it when banter either cuts off important dialogue, or dialogue cuts off banter.  So hopefully, the banter has enough spacetime to execute and complete before any other dialogue or cutscene, or anything, can interrupt it.

[Jos Hendriks]

Anyway, re: banter.. I always always ALWAYS hate it when banter either cuts off important dialogue, or dialogue cuts off banter.  So hopefully, the banter has enough spacetime to execute and complete before any other dialogue or cutscene, or anything, can interrupt it.

 

Me too. We try to account for it with logic failsafes but sometimes that just doesn't work. Part of pacing and spacing the banter is trying to anticipate the potential overlap problems.

[agonis]

Please, for the Love of God, no more Banter Bugs...

 

Those hours of silence in DA:I unnerved me.

[Lady Sif]

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz 

On occasion I glance over to my neighbors @ccorfe & @BioMasika and I see them looking at cool space stuff, and then realize that's our game.

[goishen]

 

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz 

 @BioMasika

 

Don't ask me why, but whenever I see his name I always see Masuka from Dexter.

 

https://apa340.wordp...owtimes-dexter/

[Lady Sif]

 

Jos Hendriks ‏@Sjosz 

On occasion I glance over to my neighbors @ccorfe & @BioMasika and I see them looking at cool space stuff, and then realize that's our game.

 

Graham Scott ‏@BioMasika 

@Sjosz @ccorfe The feeling is mutual:)

[xXRengaiaXx]

I encountered those same silent moments in DA:I too so I'm assuming the banters are voice overs?

[NKnight7]

I still have some trouble getting banters to appear in Inquisition, but compared to when the game launched last year banters are showing up more and more for me. I do hope they appear more often in Andromeda though, and that there aren't any glitches or bugs with them.

[Lady Sif]

Mass Effect Retweeted

WeLoveFine ‏@welovefine 

Some great designs submitted to the #MassEffect contest! Only 6 days left to submit yours! http://bit.ly/N7DesignContest 

[BioMasika]

Don't ask me why, but whenever I see his name I always see Masuka from Dexter.

https://apa340.wordp...owtimes-dexter/

Lots of people see my username and read it as ma-see-Kah

Buy for the record I read it as Ma-Sih-Kuh (I hope that translates correctly). Kind of like a drunk cowboy saying massacre.

[goishen]

Buy for the record I read it as Ma-Sih-Kuh (I hope that translates correctly). Kind of like a drunk cowboy saying massacre.

 

 

And that was my second thought.   lol

 

Good to know. 

[cap and gown]

 

Anyway, re: banter.. I always always ALWAYS hate it when banter either cuts off important dialogue, or dialogue cuts off banter.  So hopefully, the banter has enough spacetime to execute and complete before any other dialogue or cutscene, or anything, can interrupt it.

 

 

Me too. We try to account for it with logic failsafes but sometimes that just doesn't work. Part of pacing and spacing the banter is trying to anticipate the potential overlap problems.

 

Vanguard was the worst in ME3 for missing dialogue since you could charge right past a dialogue prompt point.

[Phoenix_Also_Rises]

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@Jos or anyone that knows:

 

Techie question. "During banter file testing, does the trigger execute a banter-text-to-speech program?".

 

Curious

 

Edit: BTW, Jos, I like your "developer diary" tweets... much appreciated

 

I seem to recall that in one of the interviews BioFan did with some of the devs who worked on Descent, the DA:I DLC, a dev (level designer I think it was) said that while working on levels and testing, the characters were "saying" dialogue fed through text-to-speech before proper voice acting was done and put it. So maybe it is the same process? Or at least similar?

 

Still, I am not 100% positive this is indeed what is happening with ME:A as well. And this is a genuinely interesting question. Does anybody know? 

[ElitePinecone]

Billy Buskell ‏@ehlien
No strim tonight.
Had to repay some sleep debt.
Now, kiddo is wide awake.
Trying to play a bit of <Redacted> Alpha before passing out again

 

Mass Effect? Or the new IP?
 

[BioFan (Official)]

There's an alpha? 

 

 

They never even mentioned being in pre-alpha (though I think we all assumed that's where it was at least)

 

 

 

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Billy Buskell ‏@ehlien

@BioFanOfficial pretty sure we're thinking of different games. Not a BioWare or EA title :-P

[Catastrophy]

Me too. We try to account for it with logic failsafes but sometimes that just doesn't work. Part of pacing and spacing the banter is trying to anticipate the potential overlap problems.

There will be someone who's gonna break it. And we'll likely laugh. But in general, I think it will work as intended for most of us.