Complete Xbox Arise: A Simple Story - 1. Art Reflects Emotion Trailer

VIDEO Xbox Arise: A Simple Story - 1. Art Reflects Emotion TV commercial 2019 • Arise: A Simple Story coming to Xbox One December 3rd 2019! Preorder now to get both Arise: A Simple Story and the exclusive preorder bonus: the complete soundtrack for the game composed by David García (Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, RiME). Arise is an emotional journey through the bittersweet lives of two people where memories come alive and time bends to your will. Join Alexis Corominas and Jordi Ministral - Game Directors - who will take you through the process of creating the world of Arise in this first episode of Dev Diaries. 00:00 [XBOX SOUND] 00:10 Hi, we are Piccolo Studios from Barcelona. 00:13 We are Jordi and Alexis and we are here to talk 00:15 to you about our first game Arise: A Simple Story. 00:21 The story behind Arise, it's a story that will happen to any of us. 00:24 It talks about 00:26 very universal feelings that everyone can relate to. 00:29 We wanted to create a whimsical, magical, 00:31 fantastical world for Arise. 00:33 But at the same time it had to be solid, tactile. 00:37 We drew inspiration from animes, from Studio Ghibli. 00:41 We want the art to reflect the emotion as well, 00:42 because everything we do in the game is to create an emotion. 00:46 This is what we want players to feel, so 00:49 What you have seen so far is very colorful because 00:51 what we have shown is childhood memories. 00:53 When we step into other ages 00:55 then you will see different art, 00:57 art styles for different moods and different ambiences 01:00 that reflect the emotion of that particular memory. 01:06 Well the main character is one of the most important 01:09 things in the game. 01:10 We wanted to have, you know, a stoic character. 01:13 We wanted 01:14 the slightest move of the body to 01:17 communicate things. 01:18 The man has no eyes and he has no fingers. 01:21 And 01:22 we tried to, you know, to communicate with that. 01:24 When you have a stoic character 01:26 that suddenly expresses something, 01:28 it gets straight to your heart. 01:30 When he moves, you know, it's for something. 01:32 It's for some reason, and 01:34 that's how we created The Old Man. 01:40 Well yeah, I think with David Garcia 01:43 we were very lucky to have him on board. 01:45 He's very talented and actually he did 01:47 almost everything by himself. 01:49 We just gave him very, very, very high-level guidelines 01:53 for every chapter like this level is about 01:55 childhood and has to express the, 01:57 the joy of being a child. And this level is about 01:59 being a teenage and defying limits, so it has to pass 02:02 this 02:02 emotion and this - the thrill of being a teenager. 02:06 David is a genius 02:07 and, and it's great to see a genius at work. 02:10 The only plan that we had is, 02:11 we told him we wanted a great, 02:14 emotional 02:16 theme, main theme for the game. 02:18 And then we will, you know, 02:20 change and turn this theme 02:22 into different songs 02:23 for each chapter so, 02:25 the main theme of the game 02:27 suddenly turns into a waltz, 02:28 suddenly turns into a lullaby. 02:30 Sometimes it turns into something dark. 02:34 And, and he did all that by himself. 02:36 I mean, he's the music composer, but 02:38 at the same time he is the song engineer. 02:41 He did all the sound effects and at the same time 02:44 he programs things in the engine. 02:46 He does everything - he does everything! 02:48 I mean, 02:49 one day he will go and say, "Hey," 02:51 I did level 5. 02:52 We enter level 5 and it's all there. 02:54 And it's all perfect! 02:55 Yeah, the music, the sound effects, 02:57 and the scripting is, everything is there. 02:59 So it's like, 03:01 Incredible. 03:01 One day you open the editor, and 03:03 just the level sounds, it's like, "Wow." 03:05 It's magic. 03:07 It was very easy and rewarding to work with him. 03:10 Yeah! 03:12 We'll do it again. 03:13 Yeah. 03:26 [XBOX SOUND]- advertisement spot 2019