They went and did prototypes in the editor, like what a mod team would do. Please think about how we can improve it." Back then, we knew we should have done certain things in differently given more time or a less hectic development schedule. It was a very intense time for us, so we decided, "Let's have these guys take a look at the expansion pack we wanted to do." We told them, "Here's our box of toys.
So we suddenly had twenty guys with weird names in our office, speaking a language nobody could understand - although they speak English as well. We brought them over to Frankfurt to meet everybody and get them trained on our tools and our engine. Around that time, when we were finalizing Crysis, we were building up the Budapest team with their own project - giving them full studio status within our small Crytek family. You needed the original game to play it, it was single-player only, and a lot shorter. The initial design was more along these lines. That's the kneejerk reflex of developers: "We're doing a game? We're almost done? Let's do an expansion pack next." Back in the day, when we first started thinking about Warhead, it started out as a vanilla expansion pack. On Warhead's pseudo-sequel format: What we tried to do is the best of both worlds.
Here, in a discussion shaped by Gamasutra editor Chris Remo, we present Diemer's own words about the development process of Crysis Warhead. Though recently-formed Crytek Budapest took the lead on the project, there has been overlap from the first game - such as with Bernd Diemer, a designer on that title who now serves as producer for the franchise.ĭiemer recently sat down with Gamasutra for an in-depth postmortem-like discussion about Crysis Warhead's development, during which he addressed the reasoning behind the game's unusual format, the tricky balance between player guidance and player freedom, the maddening intricacies of NPC AI, and the problems with the often-maligned drastic shift in gameplay towards the end of the original Crysis.
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