Okay, regardless of what the vocal complainers say, PLEASE don't cave and change her hair in the next story. I think she looks really rad. There are so many fans afraid of change and want Clem to be the same age and appearance and personality forever, and they'll seem like a majority because all they do all day is post their complaints. Stick to your guns!
From our art director, Tara Rueping:
From day 1 of development, the team wanted to give Clem an evolving look over the course of the flas… morehbacks and the season to accompany her growth as a survivor in the The Walking Dead Universe. We wanted this look to show she is growing up into adulthood and that she is becoming a stronger individual. Internally we labeled this final look as "Hero Clem." We felt a red leather jacket was both striking and a practical clothing item for the times as well. Leather is pretty hard to bite through, but most importantly it gave the powerful look we wanted for her continued journey. For hair styles we played with many and ended up feeling the short asymmetric cut was perfect for our target goal. We also had to pick a shorter style since she is getting a hair cut. Ultimately hair is an item that can grow, so who knows how Clem's hair will appear in her continued story.
Wow, thank you for taking your time to answer! Honestly, I wasn't sure you were going to respond, I'm glad you did This is very interesting, I'll take some notes for my own future proyects! Thank you!
Clinton Barnes was a stockbroker who worked from his home and spent every spare moment on his lavish garden. He always planned to meet a girl and share that garden with her one day, but the changing world robbed him of that dream. Luckily, his extensive botanical knowledge has come in handy for the residents of Richmond.
Paul Lingard was a world-class oncologist and a respected faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. While most of his colleagues fled for safety as society collapsed, Lingard sought out the injured and tried to help however he could.
Alyssa_TTG could you post all of the character backstories, like the ones you gave for Joan, Conrad, and Tripp? Many fans would be grateful, myself included.
Paul Lingard was a world-class oncologist and a respected faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. While most of his colleagues fled for safety as society collapsed, Lingard sought out the injured and tried to help however he could.
I can post a couple more:
Clinton Barnes was a stockbroker who worked from his home and spent every spare moment on his lavish garden. He… more always planned to meet a girl and share that garden with her one day, but the changing world robbed him of that dream. Luckily, his extensive botanical knowledge has come in handy for the residents of Richmond.
Paul Lingard was a world-class oncologist and a respected faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. While most of his colleagues fled for safety as society collapsed, Lingard sought out the injured and tried to help however he could.
I can post a couple more:
Clinton Barnes was a stockbroker who worked from his home and spent every spare moment on his lavish garden. He… more always planned to meet a girl and share that garden with her one day, but the changing world robbed him of that dream. Luckily, his extensive botanical knowledge has come in handy for the residents of Richmond.
Paul Lingard was a world-class oncologist and a respected faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. While most of his colleagues fled for safety as society collapsed, Lingard sought out the injured and tried to help however he could.
I can post a couple more:
Clinton Barnes was a stockbroker who worked from his home and spent every spare moment on his lavish garden. He… more always planned to meet a girl and share that garden with her one day, but the changing world robbed him of that dream. Luckily, his extensive botanical knowledge has come in handy for the residents of Richmond.
Paul Lingard was a world-class oncologist and a respected faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. While most of his colleagues fled for safety as society collapsed, Lingard sought out the injured and tried to help however he could.
And I have a last final question that I would really like answered. Perhaps more aimed at Creative Director @Alyssa_TTG, since you're likely… more to be the one in charge of such things. Is there any chance, that Season 2's episode presentation scheme comes back in future installments? And what I mean by episode presentation scheme is S2's widescreen slides each with their own tracks (tracks which I loved), color schemes, main menu images, settings menu symbolic images and episode credit songs. It made each episode so damn unique and added, especially to the last 3, this eerie, horror feeling about them (even if the episodes themselves didn't end up delivering such feeling (which, to be honest, I actually think they did)), it was such a beautiful and cool menu to play around with (since you could even use an episode's color scheme onto another episode's menu image) and I would love it was brought back since this new generic menu Telltale has been u… [view original content]
One of the things I love that you're able to do with TWD is give these people mundane backstories that end up deciding their new role in the zombie apocalypse. That's a perfect example. I know that even if we the players don't know about it, it helps inform the writing. Still, don't be shy about introducing more of this stuff in-game.
Joan was a divorced single mother, a driven child of immigrants, who worked her way up to COO of her furniture manufacturing company, runnin… moreg the factory as both den mother and disciplinarian. She knew every employee’s name, but also everyone’s weak spots.
One of the things I love that you're able to do with TWD is give these people mundane backstories that end up deciding their new role in the… more zombie apocalypse. That's a perfect example. I know that even if we the players don't know about it, it helps inform the writing. Still, don't be shy about introducing more of this stuff in-game.
Elle is tricky. Her character changed enough in development that her original backstory no longer makes sense. I can tell you that she is Thai American, and (some of you guessed this) was originally designed as Joan's daughter in an early version of the story. In the shipping version, though, they are not related.
Why....why could this info not have been in the game....give us the time to get to know the good guys and the bad. It is this that helps make TWD more than just a zombie apocalypse series....and more moments like the episode 5 Flashback with Javi and David and their father....HUMAN moments...taking time to talk and feel...this is TWD.
I can post a couple more:
Clinton Barnes was a stockbroker who worked from his home and spent every spare moment on his lavish garden. He… more always planned to meet a girl and share that garden with her one day, but the changing world robbed him of that dream. Luckily, his extensive botanical knowledge has come in handy for the residents of Richmond.
Paul Lingard was a world-class oncologist and a respected faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. While most of his colleagues fled for safety as society collapsed, Lingard sought out the injured and tried to help however he could.
In episode 4 when Gabe calls out Javi for killing Conrad, did Gabe know Conrad was apart of Tripp's group? Did he purposely rat out Javi to … moreTripp and Eleanor or was it on accident?
Gabe knew that Conrad and Tripp both came from Prescott, because they were all traveling together in Episode 2. As for whether his exposing Javi’s secret was purposeful -- I don’t think he planned it by any means. But one of the things that teenagers do, quite often, is react to something hurtful by trying to hurt back -- and Gabe was very hurt that his plans for saving his father weren’t resonating with Kate and Tripp (even if they were conditionally resonating with Javi.) So he took Javi’s words about life being precious, and threw them back in his face -- publicly calling Javi out as a hypocrite without thought for the consequences.
If you're allowed to, could you tell us anything interesting about previous iterations of season 3? Was there an… [view original content]
Crush is one thing, but looking at some of these lines ("I thought I would be alone forever...until I met you."), it looks to go a BIT more than a crush.
Who thought it was a good idea to make Clem fall head over heels for Gabe after knowing him for, like, 3 days?
Have you ever had a crush on someone before really getting to know them?
Wow, thanks for giving a pal the deets! This info really helps flesh out my experience in the game.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, feel free to share any other backstories you think of (and plz don't forget unknown status Kate it's very important ok love you guys )
Elle is tricky. Her character changed enough in development that her original backstory no longer makes sense. I can tell you that she i… mores Thai American, and (some of you guessed this) was originally designed as Joan's daughter in an early version of the story. In the shipping version, though, they are not related.
Yeah I saw that but alas, I don't have the college degree or work experience that the postings say are required, just a talent for telling stories, particularly dystopian stories. Thank you for the replies, though.
There were quite a lot of variations for the endings in Ep5, ranging from Clems trust in Javier to who ends up living in your ending. How wa… mores the thought process for these variations? Were they planned mid-season to be a big thing for the finale? Or possibly thought even before or later? This player uniqueness (especially with the whole 'Your Clem Became' thing) has me hoping to see if this will have a greater impact for Clems attitudes in the future season to come.
We wanted to make player choice matter, including the choices from previous seasons and in the Clem flashbacks. Part of the inspiration was explaining what we meant when we said there were 42 versions of Clem coming out of season 2 -- that promise was a hard one to pay off, but we felt it important to honor it as best we could.
We also heard the feedback from the opening episodes of this season about how we handled the S2 endings, and wanted to set up a situation where… [view original content]
This is.. the best easter egg I have seen so far. Crazy, out of the blue, makes no sense to the situation but really nice "secret" bit they added.
I must shake that person's hand as well.
Can I shake the hand(s) of the person(s) responsible for this?
Another question I have is about the odd disappearance of Conrad at th… moree start of episode 5. Was there an original scenario for him during the breach? And since it is canon that he disappears, I'm curious to know what he was doing during all of the excitement.
And I have a last final question that I would really like answered. Perhaps more aimed at Creative Director @Alyssa_TTG, since you're likely… more to be the one in charge of such things. Is there any chance, that Season 2's episode presentation scheme comes back in future installments? And what I mean by episode presentation scheme is S2's widescreen slides each with their own tracks (tracks which I loved), color schemes, main menu images, settings menu symbolic images and episode credit songs. It made each episode so damn unique and added, especially to the last 3, this eerie, horror feeling about them (even if the episodes themselves didn't end up delivering such feeling (which, to be honest, I actually think they did)), it was such a beautiful and cool menu to play around with (since you could even use an episode's color scheme onto another episode's menu image) and I would love it was brought back since this new generic menu Telltale has been u… [view original content]
(some of you guessed this) was originally designed as Joan's daughter in an early version of the story. In the shipping version, though, they are not related.
Really? And here I just thought that was a mildly offensive assumption on other people's part. Guess that explains her line about having missing family, though.
If anyone was gonna be related to the New Frontier, I thought it'd be Conrad.
Elle is tricky. Her character changed enough in development that her original backstory no longer makes sense. I can tell you that she i… mores Thai American, and (some of you guessed this) was originally designed as Joan's daughter in an early version of the story. In the shipping version, though, they are not related.
I can post a couple more:
Clinton Barnes was a stockbroker who worked from his home and spent every spare moment on his lavish garden. He… more always planned to meet a girl and share that garden with her one day, but the changing world robbed him of that dream. Luckily, his extensive botanical knowledge has come in handy for the residents of Richmond.
Paul Lingard was a world-class oncologist and a respected faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. While most of his colleagues fled for safety as society collapsed, Lingard sought out the injured and tried to help however he could.
Every version of episode 5 had some kind of heavy equipment playing a part.... Probably because the main problem to solve was a hole in the wall. We set up the bulldozer in episode 4, and some people (JackSepticEye, for one) totally predicted what were going to do with it.
Hey how ya doing? I enjoyed Episode 5 greatly. I hope this hasn't been asked yet, but my question(s) relates to some what ifs and possibilit… moreies for the finale.
Were their any planned endings where David, Gabe, AND Kate survived? Tripp (my man) or Ava surviving? Would there have been any plans for clear closure to say, Max, Clint, and/or Joan? Max kind of disappeared, maybe he showed up I don't know, but I let him live and he was gone after Episode 3.
Okay I'll cheat and ask another, little question: How did the idea for the bulldozer come about?
Hope this isn't too much, thanks for your work! May not have been perfect, but that's the way the world is.
How do you feel this season was received by the fandom? Do you feel the fans overall liked it? Do you think you met their expectations?
… more
I think all y’alls are better suited to answer this than we are.
Do you feel like the final product ended up being just what you guys idealized or do you think there was room for improvement? If so to what extent?
I’ve never finished a creative endeavor that I thought was perfect. Over the course of the creative process, we have to make choices on a daily basis about what chances to take and where to play it safe; where to invest and where to cut and run. There’s so many versions of every story, and one of our key jobs is to find the version that will resonate best and get it onscreen. Every day we make choices, and we see the results of those choices pay off via the hard work of a large team -- in order to bring a scene online, so many people (artists, programmers, audio/music, QA)… [view original content]
1)Where did Clem learn how to drive a motorcycle? Did Kenny / Jane teach her?
2) Was Tripp the leader of Prescott or was he some sort of sc… moreeriff?
3) In episode 3, did Conrad apologize to Clem off-screen in the quarantine zone for what he did earlier in the tunnel? Is that why Clem isn't so mad about it with him or Javier?
Thank you for this season, and for this AMA , I've made you some fanarts to show you my gratitude!
Do you guys like it?
And here's Clementine. Let me know what you think and thanks again for the AMA
I completely understand that, but I (and many others) feel as though i has strayed too far from the roots. A perfect hybrid can be struck, but I think it should mirror that of season 2 more than of season 3.
Do you think you guys will ever consider going back to season1/2 graphics style? If updated, I really think it would look amazing. The style… more to me was always it's signature look you know?
From our art director, Tara Rueping:
For Seasons 1 and 2 we internally labeled the styles as the interior of a comic book. For Season 3 we wanted to stay true to the roots, but also wanted to push for a higher fidelity. The most important thing to us was not losing line work since that is the history of the franchise. So we aimed for a hybrid that kept the linework and married it with higher fidelity. Internally we referred to the style as a playable exterior of a comic book cover.
PLEASE TELL ME this means you're taking requests because I now want:
Mirror-Universe Javi
Mutton-Chops Javi
Salvador Dali Javi
You've opened the flood gates of facial hair!
We haven't forgotten, and we're very aware of the strong Luke fan base and the power of his character.
Clem didn't spend much time outside of flashbacks reflecting upon her past -- in fact, I believe she only mentioned Lee directly one time. I can tell you that we did use Clem's history with Luke as one of the variant factors in determining certain dialog lines playing in the season, though those instances can be hard to spot in a casual play though.
Hello from the United Kingdom! Thank you very much for doing one of these, I love reading people's questions and your answers! I don't know … moreif that has been mentioned, but I got a question about a certain lovely southerner from the second season.
Luuuuuuke
In the 'create a story' menu, you can list Luke as being the biggest influence on Clementine out of the three 'guardians' listed. Kenny, Jane and Luke were all huge characters in season two - hell, people still argue about Jane and Kenny to this day - but lovely Luke doesn't seem to get remembered by Clementine. At least, he doesn't get mentioned in my game, I could just be missing a certain combination of things I have to do! But, at least in the three or four playthroughs of the season I've done so far, I haven't heard Clementine talk about Luke once in the 'present timeline'/
To me, this is a bit of an issue, because in my playthrough of season two, I sidled up to Luke as I … [view original content]
Also, on a less critical note, who was your favorite character this season and why?
Too many to list. Javi, Conrad, Clem, Kate, Dav… moreid, Salvador, Mariana, and, of course, Tripp. Son of a goddamn do I love my Tripp! And Gabe! Yeah, that’s right, you heard me! Him, too!
As to why? Each character offered such great challenges as a writer that it was a really thrilling and enlightening journey finding their voice.
Who was YOUR favorite character this season and why?
What part of A New Frontier are you most proud of? Personally I applaud you guys on how you handled Conrad!
The dominoes scene with Javier, David, and their father. The confrontation between Javi and David at the water tower. The haircutting scene with Clem. Tripp and Javi talking about love and what a mess it can be. Standing on the ledge with David. The many gifs/shoutouts I’ve seen for one of my favorite series of lines I’ve ever written that I NEVER tho… [view original content]
Oh boy, this is going to be a fun time for the writers... having to sift through all these negative comments of which they know they can't a… morenswer. Ouch.
I feel bad for them.
But, at least this does put some of the problems people had with this season out into the open for correction in future series.
....just a stray thought.
"Sorry, guys! We're just very, very passionate fans!"
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Okay, regardless of what the vocal complainers say, PLEASE don't cave and change her hair in the next story. I think she looks really rad. There are so many fans afraid of change and want Clem to be the same age and appearance and personality forever, and they'll seem like a majority because all they do all day is post their complaints. Stick to your guns!
Our pleasure. Thanks for the questions!
truthbomb
Adam just learned the powers of hashtags.
WOWTHISISCOOL
I can post a couple more:
Clinton Barnes was a stockbroker who worked from his home and spent every spare moment on his lavish garden. He always planned to meet a girl and share that garden with her one day, but the changing world robbed him of that dream. Luckily, his extensive botanical knowledge has come in handy for the residents of Richmond.
Paul Lingard was a world-class oncologist and a respected faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. While most of his colleagues fled for safety as society collapsed, Lingard sought out the injured and tried to help however he could.
Yes, I am! Because when all else fails: ALWAYS BE PETTY.
And you're welcome! If it's the only set of lines I'm remembered for in my tenure at Telltale I am perfectly okay with that.
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He was such a good guy
You're welcome, Blind.
You're awesome, thank you. Can you give Eleanor's backstory too?
Thanks for this ama and please don't forget about our unknown status Kate
thought lingard was a degenerate junkie, hm.
YES
One of the things I love that you're able to do with TWD is give these people mundane backstories that end up deciding their new role in the zombie apocalypse. That's a perfect example. I know that even if we the players don't know about it, it helps inform the writing. Still, don't be shy about introducing more of this stuff in-game.
People are oddly multi-faceted.
Those medical skills and the doctor title had to come from somewhere.
Yeah, the unused dialogue(and heck, some of the used ones) made it obvious that it was just a bunch of pissed off families.
I dont think they decided themselves yet, you know, there is a lot of feedback to think about.
Yeah...now if they would only take the time to put them in the game so we can have some deeper characters.
Elle is tricky. Her character changed enough in development that her original backstory no longer makes sense. I can tell you that she is Thai American, and (some of you guessed this) was originally designed as Joan's daughter in an early version of the story. In the shipping version, though, they are not related.
Why....why could this info not have been in the game....give us the time to get to know the good guys and the bad. It is this that helps make TWD more than just a zombie apocalypse series....and more moments like the episode 5 Flashback with Javi and David and their father....HUMAN moments...taking time to talk and feel...this is TWD.
Thanks for the AMA...you guys rock.
Crush is one thing, but looking at some of these lines ("I thought I would be alone forever...until I met you."), it looks to go a BIT more than a crush.
Wow, thanks for giving a pal the deets! This info really helps flesh out my experience in the game.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, feel free to share any other backstories you think of (and plz don't forget unknown status Kate it's very important ok love you guys
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Yeah I saw that but alas, I don't have the college degree or work experience that the postings say are required, just a talent for telling stories, particularly dystopian stories. Thank you for the replies, though.
That was my thought as well.
Dude should get some glasses.
This is.. the best easter egg I have seen so far. Crazy, out of the blue, makes no sense to the situation but really nice "secret" bit they added.
I must shake that person's hand as well.
A Telltale main menu aficionado, like me?
My. Thoughts. EXACTLY.
Really? And here I just thought that was a mildly offensive assumption on other people's part. Guess that explains her line about having missing family, though.
If anyone was gonna be related to the New Frontier, I thought it'd be Conrad.
Telltale, pls. This is the stuff I live for! cries
So Clem's story arc is gonna be resolved in a fifteen dollar graphic novel? Hey, as long as it gets resolved in one way or another.
nvm
Every version of episode 5 had some kind of heavy equipment playing a part.... Probably because the main problem to solve was a hole in the wall. We set up the bulldozer in episode 4, and some people (JackSepticEye, for one) totally predicted what were going to do with it.
Oh damn, Javier is making a comeback.
The first one was my face when the hat never made an appearance.
I completely understand that, but I (and many others) feel as though i has strayed too far from the roots. A perfect hybrid can be struck, but I think it should mirror that of season 2 more than of season 3.
Here are my g̶o̶o̶d̶ and n̶o̶t̶cringy pieces I did at 1am on 3 hours of sleep as per request lol
We haven't forgotten, and we're very aware of the strong Luke fan base and the power of his character.
Clem didn't spend much time outside of flashbacks reflecting upon her past -- in fact, I believe she only mentioned Lee directly one time. I can tell you that we did use Clem's history with Luke as one of the variant factors in determining certain dialog lines playing in the season, though those instances can be hard to spot in a casual play though.
She hasn't forgotten him.
Dude that was my favorite line! It was so perfect.
We do appreciate your passion.