The making of Horizon: Zero Dawn's dinobot hunting quests

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As explained in our Horizon: Zero Dawn review , the PS4's latest exclusive is a spectacular achievement for Guerrilla Games. For a studio that has focussed for over a decade on making largely linear shooters, the shift to a wide open action role-playing game with an emphasis on patiently hunting and trapping crazy robot dinosaurs is deeply impressive. We've had to put together multiple Horizon: Zero Dawn guides and walkthroughs to explain some of its more complex quests. The question is: how are those quests made? Horizon: Zero Dawn lead quest designer David Ford joined us to talk about making missions from a story point of you, how being a Marine informs his work as a game designer, and how to go from Star Wars Galaxies character support to making one of the most technologically advanced PS4 games.

Anthony John Agnello
Anthony John Agnello
I've been playing games since I turned four in 1986, been writing about them since 1987, and writing about them professionally since 2008. My wife and I live in New York City. Chrono Trigger is my favorite game ever made, Hum's Downward is Heavenward is my favorite album, and I regularly find myself singing "You Won't See Me" by The Beatles in awkward situations.