Episodes

  • #26 - Designing the Characters in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

    #26 - Designing the Characters in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
    Aug 15 2024
    In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Petter and Dóri meet Brenda Bae, Lead Concept Artist on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Océane Näsström, Associate Lead Character Artist on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Hear about their roles, how they got to where they are today, and what went into designing the clans and characters in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – and making them come to life in the game. How the environments in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora affected the characters in the game, in everything from their silhouettes, hairstyles, clothing and gear – and much more.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • #25 - Designing the Immersive World in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

    #25 - Designing the Immersive World in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
    Jul 3 2024
    In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Petter and Dóri meet Mikhail Greuli, Associate Art Director on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Kunal Luthra, Lead Technical Artist on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Hear about their roles, how they got to where they are today, and of course what it was like to create the immersive world of Pandora – as we deep-dive into the creation of biomes, scattering systems, shaders, destruction of plants, pollution systems, and so much more.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • #24 - Game Design in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

    #24 - Game Design in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
    Jun 19 2024
    In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Petter and Dóri meet Martin Jansén, Expert Game Designer at Massive Entertainment, to talk about the Game Design in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Hear about Martin’s role, how he got to where he is today, and learn more about how Martin and the team worked with player movement, haptics, the three Cs (character, camera, controls) and much more.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • #23 - Sound Designing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

    #23 - Sound Designing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
    Feb 6 2024
    In this episode of Behind Massive Screens Alex Riviere, Audio Director on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, joins Petter & Dóri to dive into the role of an Audio Director. Hear about how Alex got to where he is, and of course about some of the design, systems, and tech behind the audio in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora now!
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    58 mins
  • #22 - The Evolution of (Ubisoft) Connecting Players

    #22 - The Evolution of (Ubisoft) Connecting Players
    Feb 6 2024
    In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Petter and Dóri meet Johan Flote, Live Producer in the Ubisoft Connect team at Massive Entertainment, to find out more about how his job works and to talk about the open beta. During the summer, Ubisoft Connect launched their open beta. But why did they choose to have an open beta? What sort of feedback has been implemented? Also, what is a Live Producer and how to you become one? All these questions and more are among the things Petter, Dóri and Johan discuss on this episode of Behind Massive Screens.
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    40 mins
  • #21 - Snowdrop Game Engine

    #21 - Snowdrop Game Engine
    Nov 22 2023
    In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Petter and Dóri meet Julia Stegemann, Lead Knowledge Manager in the Snowdrop team at Massive Entertainment and Ola Holmdahl, Snowdrop Operations Director, to find out more about how their job works, through a discussion that touches on Academia, table-top games, late medieval love songs and more! The Snowdrop engine, with its flexible and empowering tools, has helped develop a number of Ubisoft titles such as The Division, Mario + Rabbids, The Settlers, South Park and more upcoming games from Massive and Ubisoft. But how did Snowdrop come to be? Why was it developed in the first place, and how do you set up the users, the game developers, to easily find the information and guidelines they need to do their craft?
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • #20 - Technical Artistry in The Division 2

    #20 - Technical Artistry in The Division 2
    Oct 18 2023
    In this 20th (!) episode of Behind Massive Screens, Petter and Dóri meets Conny Bengtsson, Technical Artist for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, to find out what makes “technical art” technical. The discussion turns into a journey of spinning backpack fans, how you make glasses fit on characters’ faces, helmet shaders and – believe it a not – a big pile of virtual shirts that needed fixing. We also get an insight into how Conny and his team worked on the latest The Division 2 apparel event, Nexus, and what brand-new innovations they brought to it.
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    49 mins
  • #19 - Community Development for The Division 2

    #19 - Community Development for The Division 2
    Sep 27 2023
    Once a video game has been released, how do you keep track of all the discussions surrounding it? How do you gather actionable feedback to improve the game? How do you keep a conversation between developers and players going? And how do you make sure that a game’s community stays engaged and informed? In this episode of Behind Massive Screens, Petter and Dóri meet Daria Ilyina, Community Developer at Massive Entertainment for Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, to find out more about how their job works.
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    52 mins