Ep. 262: 'Achievement Oriented' on Google Doodle Games and Ubisoft's Sword-Fighting Experiment

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🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion talk to Jordan Thompson, lead software engineer for the latest Google Doodle game, about building games for a massive search-engine audience with unique control constraints and compatibility concerns (0:15). Then they bring on Ubisoft creative director Jason VandenBerghe to discuss the innovative combat system at the center of newly released fighting game 'For Honor,' why sword-fighting is so tough to translate to video games, and how he created the concept of Vikings versus Samurai (19:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Achievement Oriented Channel 33's gaming podcast.
0:20.0	My name is Ben Lindbergh and I'm a writer for TheRinger.com and on the other line, some
0:24.4	call him the Conqueror, some Palm Peacekeeper.
0:27.0	It's Jason Concepter, you know.
0:28.6	Hi, Jason.
0:29.6	I feel like a Conqueror right now.
0:32.6	I feel as if I could conquer many, many nights and Vikings and Samurai.
0:39.2	Well, we are going to talk later in this episode about Four Honor.
0:43.0	We're going to talk to Ubisoft's Creative Director, Jason Vandenberg, about the game
0:47.5	and Jason and I are only in the early stages still, but there is a lot to like and a lot
0:52.8	to learn.
0:53.8	It's a game where basically the doom of Valeria befalls the medieval landscape of some
1:00.7	sort and it divides this landscape into kingdoms and naturally those kingdoms are populated
1:06.3	by nights, Samurai and Vikings and then they have to fight.
1:10.8	Geographically, there's there, there may be some issues, but yeah, they're overlooking
1:15.6	this.
1:16.6	Yeah.
1:17.6	Creative license.
1:18.6	Yeah.
1:19.6	It's an online multiplayer based game.
1:22.3	It looks deceptively like a hack and slash game.
1:24.7	If you look at screenshots, you'll say, oh, it's dynasty warriors with Vikings, but it's
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