The Director (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Sunday, April 17, 2016, 02:25 (3236 days ago) @ narcogen

There's a lot of good information here about the details of Destiny that were obviously a real pain to make, took a lot of time, but are nearly transparent to the user because of how mind bogglingly well they work, especially compared to similar systems in other games and even productivity applications.

Of special interest to me, though, is the segment later in the presentation on The Director. For one thing, it directly refutes one of the tentpoles of the Reddit rumors about Destiny development hell, by suggesting that the Director was designed to be the central focus of the game from the start of serious development in 2010.

Hard to believe that it was an 11th hour fix to what we have now, considering how wildly different all of the iterations were. The Tower itself looks like it wasn't going to be a very big focus until the end, judging from the linear Director with all bounties available...

Pretty neat.