“We have a huge team of production artists that mostly does sci-fi stuff, and they haven’t done an orc or a sword ever, so maybe we have to do sci-fi,” Griesemer said. “We want to do a third-person game, but we have a bunch of people who specialize in first-person game animations, and all of our code base is written assuming that the crosshair is in the center of the screen. And so now we’re first-person. . . . Before you know it, we’re basically making Halo.”
