The Titanfall franchise and Apex Legends share an expansive universe. Many of the legends in Apex have backstories with major links to Titanfall. BY RYAN BRIDGES It’s widely known that Apex Legends takes place in the same universe as the Titanfall franchise. Locations, weapons, and characters that appeared in Titanfall and Titanfall 2 also appear in Apex Legends. However,…
When people talk about gaming, they usually talk about it as if it’s one monolithic thing. It’s not. It’s actually three monolithic things. There are three distinct pillars that makeup what we offhandedly call game writing: Plot, character, and lore Not all games need to focus on all of these…
Building the optimistic future of Overwatch — Lead Writer Michael Chu 2017 GDC Blizzard has the company values, one is “thinking globally”, for developers, it’s hard for us to figure out what that means, obviously is thinking about the other teams working around the world. On OW, we have this…
By Tencent CODM development lead designer Translated and summarized by Gigi Geng 1. How do you define the CODM from the very beginning, what’s your expectation for this project? We got CODM’s license（project bidding confirmation)on Feb. 15th, 2016. Because we have the CFM project as a successful predecessor, our internal…
By Argentics Studio Seasonal events in gaming have become integral components of contemporary game design, marked by their structured occurrence within a specified timeframe and offering unique in-game experiences. The prevalence of seasonal events has seen a noteworthy ascent in the gaming industry, as developers increasingly recognize their potential to…
By Gigi Geng FPS Development History since 1970s Strictly speaking, FPS: First-person-Shooting Game is a sub-genre of Action Games. Background In the 1970s, PC image processing technology is very different from “Famicom”. All kinds of horizontally-scrolling adventure games became dominating on Atari consoles, and PC games at that time were…
By Dave Aubrey Apex Legends has 28 weapons available in the game spread across seven different categories, not counting April Fools weapon variants or weapons attached to Legend abilities. That is a mean number of guns to juggle, especially if you’re just now entering the game for the first time. So…
By Argentics, a game development service Respawn has announced the opening of its third studio due to the ongoing popularity of Apex Legends. Respawn Entertainment was originally founded by former Call of Duty developers in 2014, debuting with the military sci-fi shooter Titanfall and later working on the Star Wars Jedi series. However,…
Dave Aubrey Apex Legends is one of the world’s most popular battle royale games, and it only takes a few tries to see why. A high level of polish, excellent movement, a great variety of guns, and a full cast of 20 fascinating characters with surprisingly deep backstories are all great…
From the Game Developer A new coming multiplayer game which just released in February 2019 but can push itself to top 3 most-played multiplayer games. You may have heard this name from media and gaming news, Apex legends. Today we are going to analyze how Apex Legends became one of…
