Bungie Were Inspired by TV Shows for Destiny’s Story

Developers comparing their projects to TV shows or movies instead of other video games happens far too common, but here’s an instance of it that some may enjoy.

Bungie’s design director on Destiny Joe Staten spoke with Gamespot at GDC about what inspires the studio when it comes to narrative in their games:

“I think typically, for the Halo games, we looked at movies. But really for this game, we looked at serial television; great dramas like Lost or The Wire; Battlestar Galactica.

When you’re building a world and you want to evolve it over time, it really helps to have an understanding of how you build this longer-form narrative. So for us, that was a really interesting new thing we did. I think we probably spend more time watching television these days than we do movies and that’s definitely influenced the way we think about building our story.”

It makes sense that Bungie would look to television rather than movies for Destiny because of its persistent world and-…wait a minute, did he mention The Wire!?! Thanks Joe, NOW I’m interested. All I need now is Bunk or Jimmy McNulty to be announced as voice actors and I’m set.