Deliver packages for a big cat with a giant tank when ConnecTank launches today

Finneas Fat Cat, a shipping magnate who has a fleet of big honking tanks, is looking for you to help deliver packages all over New Pangea. ConnecTank He has players enter a gigantic machine, link conveyor belts and manufacture ammunition for the battle tanks of rival transport titans. You can drive through the game’s procedurally generated world in single player mode or bring up to three friends and collect balls of yarn for Finneas in couch co-op play. ConnecTank’s Mad World was written by Patrick Baker, who was a writer for Cartoon Network’s “The Regular Show.” After a preview demo as part of the [email protected] Summer Game Fest, we are happy to offer ConnecTank to Xbox One and Series X | It’s today and we brought Patrick here to tell us how he wrote the game’s fun story.

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director Spencer yip: On ConnecTankEverything from wool balls to pizza is delivered through a large horn tank. What’s going on here?

Narrative director Patrick Baker: ConnecTank takes place in New Pangea, which is our world in the distant future where all the continents have been reconnected to become one large land mass. Business in New Pangea can be ruthless, so you want a vehicle that can defend your cargo. Also, the big tanks honking with super rad designs are amazing. If you were a wealthy businessman and had an excuse to make giant, crazy-looking tanks with your name on, you would too.

Jeep: Who are the three industry titans you can work for?

Baker: New Pangea’s greatest business moguls are Finneas Fat Cat the Fifteen, Lord Lewis Longneck of Lewingford, and Emperor Pontius Penguin.

Fat Cat is a literal and figurative fat cat. An unrepentant capitalist, he remembers the robber barons of the Golden Age like Rockefeller, Carnegie and Vanderbilt. He has an old-fashioned demeanor that makes him sound like Theodore Roosevelt when he speaks. Sometimes he will drive the necessary parts to your factory, or he could go pick up a large ball of yarn that he was too jealous of.

Lord Lewis Longneck of Lewingford is firstly a patron of the arts and secondly heir to a banking fortune. If you are familiar with the Medici family from Renaissance Florence, you are similar to them in that you are more interested in throwing money at paintings, sculptures, and museums, but you also need to do the boring job of running a banking empire. Fortunately, you have to do those boring tasks for him. You could be driving to collect marble for his next statue, or rushing to preserve an ice sculpture that he could have sworn was glass when he paid thousands of dollars for it.

Finally, there is the Emperor Pontius Penguin. The emperor penguin waged a revolution on the tundra to overthrow the royalist leader there, the Prince of the Whales. When he defeated the prince, he promised that he would build a just and just society where the workers of the tundra would unite. for the glory of the tundra! You may just be picking up your phone (which you left at an Uber) or picking up your tux. Don’t be surprised that the emperor penguin is wearing a tuxedo.

Yip: What was it like writing for ConnecTank? How is it different from writing a television show?

Baker: Now seems like a good time to notice that Spencer contacted me about ConnecTank because he had been a screenwriter for Cartoon Network’s “Regular Show,” as well as some other animated shows. I knew the world of ConnecTank it was going to feel a little crazy and surreal, so my experience on “Regular Show” probably suited me well. I’ve always loved video games and wanted to write for them, so I’m really glad Spencer asked me to join the team.

One of the differences is that the player’s decision and agency can really change how a story unfolds in a video game. Television and movies are very linear. There is always a beginning, a middle, and an end to every story, and it is always viewed in that order. Some games are like that too. That’s not true in a game that has branching dialogue, an open world, or multiple endings.

On ConnecTank, the player always has the option of which missions he wants to take and with which characters. That meant that players could interact with what I wrote completely out of whatever order I could anticipate. Also, if a player really loves working with Fat Cat, but hates working with Longneck (I don’t know why you would hate that; it’s lovely), then they needed to consider how the world and dialogue should look in one version. of the game where Longneck just wasn’t a major player in New Pangea. As a result, the ConnecTank The mission spreadsheet was filled with all kinds of stories that could only appear if a certain leader had a lot of power, or none at all.

This also leads to something else you need to consider when writing for games that you don’t need to consider when writing for TV: There may be entire sets of dialogue or entire missions that you write, and a player may never see them. Unless someone falls asleep in the middle of my television episode, they will see everything I wrote. This is not always true in games. Some people have asked me if that disappoints me as a writer. On the contrary, I think it’s really exciting. I love being able to always find something new that was hidden before. I really hope the players keep playing ConnecTank over and over to make sure they found all the stories I wrote. I would take it as a great honor.

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