PoR Article at WotC

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(Originally posted by Darien)

Chuck Yager, Associate Producer of PoR2: The Ruins of Myth Drannor, has written an amusing article over at WotC. He talks about some of the more interesting bugs they happened across during the creation of the game. For example:

One of the stranger bugs that arose in the early days was something we like to call the "da Vinci pose." Whenever character experienced errors executing their animation for attacks or spellcasting, they would put their arms out to the side, stretch their legs apart, and bounce across the screen. The spectacle was quite comedic to watch and reminded many testers of the famous da Vinci drawings done on the anatomy of mankind—hence, the name. Another amusing oddity dealt with some ormyrr (big sluglike creatures with four arms and a foul disposition at times) that the players could meet on the upper Halls of Light in the dwarven dungeons. At one point, instead of the ormyrr getting spawned in, other random creatures appeared instead. The booming low voices of the ormyrr, however, always remained. I can’t tell you how perplexed and amazed I was to see skeletons speaking like ormyrr, only to reload the game and then see orogs, dark nagas, and specters following suit. Needless to say, that got fixed rather quickly!

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