WILL ROGERS

Throughout Reach, players visit Atlas’ Workshop four times. On each visit, they participate in an interactive narrative scene that serves to advance the player’s understanding of the plot and provide them with their objective for the next several levels. As well as blocking out the Workshop itself, I blocked out all four narrative scenes, then worked with animation, audio, tech design, and the voice actors themselves to see the narrative realised in these spaces. In this arti

Approximately halfway through Reach’s development, I took over scriptwriting responsibilities following the departure of the fantastic Frankie Wakefield-Harrey. At the time, we had a fully implemented vertical slice script, as well as early drafts of key scenes elsewhere in the game. Given the pace of development, however, much of what we had was soon out of date. I went delving into what we knew about each of Reach's characters, seeing to understand their personalities and b

I was responsible for creating several combat encounters throughout Reach, from small-scale encounters designed to introduce enemy types, to larger multi-wave encounters designed to test the player’s abilities. This article delves into the creation of an encounter I lovingly refer to as ‘The Gauntlet’. Running the Gauntlet - Design Goals The Gauntlet is a combat encounter occurring in Reach’s final level. Before beginning designing the space, I established what I wanted the e