Just in case Nintendo fans haven’t had their fill of news concerning Nintendo’s newer IPs, ARMS producer Kosuke Yabuki is also at GDC today and just so happened to hold a panel. Below, you can find a series of tweets dedicated to what was said and revealed:
The Arms talk wins the best opening slide of #GDC competition. Look at it! pic.twitter.com/N7GjWehjXj
— Matthew Reynolds (@Crazyreyn) March 21, 2018
I'm in pic.twitter.com/zOmRfRw4c1
— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) March 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/russellholly/status/976568122395119616
The Arms prototype was visually very simple. They also tried a bowling mini-game (!) #gdc2018 pic.twitter.com/ZiKcNMM3h1
— Matthew Reynolds (@Crazyreyn) March 21, 2018
Arms concept art. Over a 100 character style art directions were considered. They also considered using existing ip like yoshi(tongue) or link(hookshots) pic.twitter.com/WJXJFyR7bb
— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) March 21, 2018
The Arms prototype was visually very simple. They also tried a bowling mini-game (!) #gdc2018 pic.twitter.com/ZiKcNMM3h1
— Matthew Reynolds (@Crazyreyn) March 21, 2018
More arms concept art pic.twitter.com/ZEBKqcauoZ
— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) March 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/russellholly/status/976568811217285120
A few more pic.twitter.com/u1qlVXE9Wv
— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) March 21, 2018
Branding in arms was inspired by using fake brands in mario kart. They wanted a "tennis-like" fight gameplay experience
— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) March 21, 2018
"We put a lot of effort into portraying the athletic bodies of the fighters. This is …a bit different from mario kart"
— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) March 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/russellholly/status/976571013445009408
Due to the sheer number of arm and character combinations, they used AI to test them during development. They have been looking at player data for win percentages post-release, too. pic.twitter.com/Ue3xzJN4xn
— Matthew Reynolds (@Crazyreyn) March 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/russellholly/status/976572507099574272
https://twitter.com/russellholly/status/976575073443184640
That’s a wrap! pic.twitter.com/8tFL89xnft
— Matthew Reynolds (@Crazyreyn) March 21, 2018
Source: @Crazyreyn (Twitter), @oleivarrudi (Twitter) & @russellholly (Twitter)
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