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  • 02.20.2008 10:21 AM PDT
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I'm pretty sure that they just get back to work. Usually, companies like Bungie will have a major and a minor project. Major gets shipped out, and the minor takes it's place. Either that, or they probably sit around and discuss game ideas and such.

  • 02.20.2008 10:24 AM PDT

I'm sure they probably have a week of downtime or something. Especially after a huge release like Halo, they celebrate a little bit. But then they get back to work on Pimps at Sea.

  • 02.20.2008 10:28 AM PDT

They start working on the next project very secertly...
In this case Bungie is working to implant a female president (Meranda Keys) and replace Castro with Sgt. Johnson as part of their plot to take over the world


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  • 02.20.2008 11:04 AM PDT

Vacation, and a little "cool-off" period.. before another crunch begins. But during said period, I think they get to work on extra content for their just-released game =D

Yay maps.

  • 02.20.2008 11:23 AM PDT

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I remember Frankie saying something about everyone takes a long vacation or something.

  • 02.20.2008 1:37 PM PDT

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So I think Jun's a master chef, because he takes off his helmet and your like whoa, I think he's a chef.

So to shorten this up, Jun is master chef.

DLC and auto-updates.

  • 02.20.2008 1:42 PM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

They spend a week face down in a swimming-pool of tequila.
They then come up with concepts for the next game.
This design process seems to work pretty well so far, it also explains some of their ideas ;)

  • 02.20.2008 2:10 PM PDT

Frank O'Connor is a 12-year veteran of the videogame magazine industry and has therefore never worked an honest day in his life.

they had a full year of rest time before they started working hard on Halo 3. during that time alot of testing goes on for future development along with DLC, vacations and misc stuff.

  • 02.20.2008 2:14 PM PDT

I think that between projects is when people start taking month-long, leisure-filled vacations to other continents. Marty gets to retreat back to his gold-plated palace on a large island set in the center of a beautiful lake, surrounded by miles of forests. He basks in the sun until the last minute of the development of the next game, when he crams all of his music in.

When people come back, then it's back to work, I'd assume -- whether it be preproduction for the next project, DLC or other secret stuff which could get someone fired for just thinking about too hard. Or all of those simultaneously, which is probably more often the case.

  • 02.20.2008 2:30 PM PDT

Beer. Lots and lots of beer.

  • 02.20.2008 4:08 PM PDT
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Well, most of the people in the studio take a little break. Go hang out with the families, ect. But Bungie started working on another game before Halo 3 even finished (although we don't know how much they actually got done, it might have just been theorizing). So there are some people who probably didn't get as long of a break as others. Also, thanks to the way games need to be made, some people can take time off while others need to work. For example, the concept artists and story writers need to be working on a project early on, but maybe the AI designers don't have much to do at the begining.

I think that's changed though, to be honest. With the invention of DLC, many people who might not have anything to do otherwise now have to keep going and making more things. Also, while some jobs don't need to be done now, the people who do them probably have other things to do.

So... to put it simply, they take a bit of time off, then it's business as usual.

  • 02.20.2008 4:32 PM PDT
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The slingshot is never perfect. Someone must attend to it, otherwise it may fall into disrepair. Or they do what everyone else said.

Nah, too easy. They've probably set in motion some sort of elaborate subterfuge to take over Southern Sri Lanka. They'd never see it coming.

  • 02.20.2008 5:07 PM PDT

Frank O'Connor is a 12-year veteran of the videogame magazine industry and has therefore never worked an honest day in his life.

Also remember that people who for example work on tools for coding and stuff near the end of Halo 3 aren't in much need. Which means they are either on test team or they start working to improve systems that they have built over the years.

  • 02.23.2008 1:06 PM PDT
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Да?

They're given the privelidge of sleep.

But only for a short time.

  • 02.23.2008 1:26 PM PDT

Loose talk is noose talk.

They get paid leave for 2 weeks (mentioned in a podcast) before they go back to working on the next big thing.

Here is what they are working on now (from Halo 3s release until the present day):

Halo 3's release--->Paid vacation--->Developers get together--->Plot created and approved (present day)

The multiplayer people are all busy creating DLCs and have little say in this matter.

Usually a lot of smacking and farting,
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  • 02.23.2008 1:43 PM PDT

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I'm sure, like we saw after Halo 3, Bungie lets the employees take vacation and then they start right in on the next project.

  • 02.23.2008 2:31 PM PDT

They don't eat Lumpy Pudding, that's for sure. ;)
I think you guys are wrong about vacations after a release.

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  • 02.23.2008 2:36 PM PDT
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Well, you see, stosh's mom's house is a bit small and theres only so many hol-...I mean...Snacks.

They eat Snacks.

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  • 02.23.2008 2:40 PM PDT

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They don't eat Lumpy Pudding, that's for sure. ;)
I think you guys are wrong about vacations after a release.


I don't know, in most of the weekly updates after H3 released everyone was on vacation.

  • 02.23.2008 2:41 PM PDT
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Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

They start posting on the forums a lot more often ;-)

  • 02.23.2008 6:20 PM PDT

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they have already started on their next project and have so for over 1 year. i think they are past the preproduction phase.

  • 02.23.2008 8:14 PM PDT