Gaming website Ten Ton Hammer.com presents an exclusive first look at a Development Diary from City of Heroes Senior Game Designer Bruce Harlick titled Designing the New Missions in Issue 13: Power and Responsibility. In the article, readers get a behind-the-scenes look at how the new missions included in the coming free expansion, Issue 13, were designed. Here's an excerpt:

Since Daedalus is the Cimeroran version of Positron and the greatest craftsman of his age, I wanted his second arc to feature some sort of crafting or item creation. So the first act has the hero investigating a threat, the second act sends the hero to create a device to help protect Cimerora from the threat, and the final act lets the hero protect Cimerora while Daedalus employs the device to prevent the threat from reoccurring. In the second mission, the "crafting mission," I delved deeper into our dialog tree system and had a lot of fun writing the Crey Energy Fabricator Mk I. Although it is only a machine, I could hear its voice and get a sense for its personality as I wrote its dialog. I think the sequence there works better than a "get the salvage and go to an invention table" type of crafting mission.

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If you are interested to know more about the man behind the missions, be sure to read Bruce Harlick's Ask a Dev article.

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