Summary
Dragon Age: The Veilguarddiffers slightly from the other games in the series in thatit’s got a pretty good character creator this time around. BioWare appears to have takenthe criticism of Dragon Age: Inquisition’s character creatorto heart, and will allow players to customize almost every aspect of their character in The Veilguard.
As a result, a tremendous amount of work has gone into the game’s character creator, making sure that players from all walks of life can feel represented when making their characters, and one way that BioWare managed to do this was to use a character creator from another of publisher Electronic Arts' long-running series -The Sims.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Character Creator Was Strongly Inspired By The Sims 4
Being a series that revolves around imitating life, The Sims has developed a very complex and intricate character creator over the years.Speaking with IGN, Dragon Age: The Veilguard director Corinne Busche revealed that The Sims played a large part in making sure that everyone feels represented by The Veilguard’s character creator, and was a point of reference whenever the team struggled.
“Character creators are extremely complex, and in many ways even more personal. It’s so important that players feel they can be represented and feel pride in that representation as they go through the creation process,” says Busche. “In particular, I remember we were struggling with some of our iconography, and we turned to each other and said ‘how did The Sims 4 handle this?.'”
Busche goes on to explain that BioWare also learned a lot from The Sims developer Maxis about representing gender and identity in a game, as well as localization issues that come from releasing a game in a number of different countries with different languages. She explains that BioWare was able to “draw from that prior experience” when making The Veilguard, and that the studio will now be able to “pay that forward” to other studios.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
