Inside joke gets into the game

It’s been quiet on the public Frozenbyte front but things have been happening behind the scenes. To get this blog back into action again, I wanted to share something about our upcoming game – a story of how we came up with an easter egg for the game. Yeah, no real information about the game – I wish I could talk about the game itself but at least this is related!

Here’s the story: We were having a little party celebrating some new contracts and other good things that have happened here lately, and of course, what would a party be without a few beers? So we had a barrel full of beer cans and ice to keep it cold (this is the cheap version of hey lets go out to the bar). Someone put in a pineapple next to the beers, saying that the party was too boring – hey, I disagree! But that’s when this story really started. It gave a lot of laughs and spiraled off in multiple directions – it was the talk of the party from that point onwards.

There was so much discussion about it, even to philosophical lengths, that the general opinion was that the pineapple has to be included in our next game. Tons of ideas spouted out in a splitsecond, all wilder than the next. The problem with most ideas, and this applies to easter eggs in general, is that the development team has its own sense of humor that may not be as funny to gamers who haven’t been exposed to the whole process.

For example, one of the animators once had a task called “chest opening animation” (to open a chest/box/container). The animator was a bit confused with the task, and it turned out that he had totally misunderstood the idea. He thought it was supposed to be like in the picture below. It’s hilariously funny to us but maybe not so much to the general public. This was an instant “Hansoft Classic” to us (Hansoft is the project management software we use – easily recommended by the way!).

So in conclusion, let’s see if you find the Mighty Pineapple as funny as we do once the game is released. But remember – it will strike when you least expect it!