Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

119: Collaborating in Character with Ashly Burch and Guerrilla Games (Horizon)

Jun 30, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

Horizon Zero Dawn, a Second Game Forbidden West and Now a DLC Burning Shores

2min

Call of the Mountain

2min

The Origins of Horizon

3min

The Year I Came on as Aloy

3min

Eloy's Responsibility for Saving the World

2min

Eloy: A Gameplay Demo

5min

How to Collaborate With a Team

2min

The Importance of Timing in a Project

3min

10.

The Importance of Having a Dedicated Voice Director at Gorilla Studios

2min

11.

The Importance of Trust in Zero Dawn

2min

12.

The Importance of Having a Solid Storyboard

2min

13.

The Importance of Collaboration

2min

14.

The Fear of Morland

2min

15.

The Importance of Asking Questions

2min

16.

The Secret to a Successful Voiceover

2min

17.

The Importance of Scheduling Early

3min

18.

The Importance of Recording in Forbidden West

1min

19.

Beta: A Dark Mirror of a Loy

3min

20.

The Importance of Committing to Final Audio

2min

21.

The Tension Between Player Characters in Forbidden West

2min

22.

Eloy's Trouble With Trust

2min

23.

The Importance of Companionship in Open World Games

2min

24.

The Power of Presence in DLCs

2min

25.

How to Find the Right Actor for a Video Game

2min

26.

Gilden and Ayla's Growth

2min

27.

How to Find Gilden in Burning Shores

2min

28.

The Importance of Focus in Gilden's Story

2min

29.

Eloy and Gilden

2min

30.

The Importance of Being in the Recording Booth

2min

31.

The Importance of Performance Capture in Ensemble Sessions

2min

32.

The Importance of COVID in PCAP

2min

33.

How Nick and I Recorded Peacup

2min

34.

The Crazy Period of COVID

2min

35.

The Burning Shores

2min

36.

The DLC: A Loi's Journey

2min

37.

The Importance of Feelings in Love

2min

38.

How to Write a Peak Out

3min

39.

How to Be Ayloy

2min

40.

The Power of Attachment

2min

41.

The Emotional Impact of Zero Dawn

2min

42.

The Importance of Collaboration in Games

2min

43.

The Importance of Critical Thinking in Game Development

2min

44.

The Secret Lives of Games

3min

We're joined by actor Ashly Burch and Guerilla Games' Ben McCaw and Jochen Willemsen to deconstruct their deeply collaborative work on the Horizon game franchise - building the character of Aloy, the role of performance capture, and carving out nuance and evolution in a blockbuster series.

Show Notes:

Horizon Forbidden West

Hey Ash Whatcha Playin'?

Tenzin (Uncharted 2)

Gildun (Horizon character)

Seyka (Horizon character)

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