High on Life 2 Official Skateboarding Overview Trailer

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00:00So we added the skateboard in High on Life 2. It's a new concept for the game that was such

00:10a huge swing for us and we weren't sure we were gonna pull it off. In the first game,

00:15traversal was a big part of what we wanted you to feel as a bounty hunter, right? You're running

00:20around, you've got this sweet suit, you're this regular earth kid, but now you've become something

00:24more. And in this one, we just had kind of a dumb idea, which was like, hey, we should put you on

00:31a skateboard. And then we built it and we're like, hey, this is really cool, but it's like really cool

00:36and maybe we should do more with it. And don't I want to shoot a gun while I'm skating? And don't

00:40I want to kick that into someone's face? The skateboard is honestly the coolest new

00:45thing we put in the game. Every time I play, I'm like, oh my god, this rules.

00:48We have a lot of design challenges because of our ambition. And I think I got to call out the

00:59skateboard as the toughest one to crack. The skating mechanic was a total design.

01:05We've gone through probably a hundred different variations of the skate mechanic.

01:09We wanted to cut it at one point. I was pushing to cut it, even though I love skateboarding. Now,

01:16I can't imagine the game without it. You know, it's such a big part of the game now.

01:21It became so vital to the game that we designed everything else around the skateboard.

01:27Sound designing the skateboard was like a lot of fun.

01:31Let's go on ahead. Sure thing. We made it out.

01:33We wanted to bring out like every little movement that you do, like, you know, pedaling,

01:38you're doing jumps, you're doing tricks. So we tried to make those sounds a bit more

01:42beefier than life. Oh my god. Oh, I'm dizzy.

01:47So in Highland Life 2, you could use the skateboard as a weapon. It's actually a major weapon for you.

01:52You can just kick it off and slam it into people's faces.

01:54It's really silly, which makes it really fun. But at the same time, it's so fluid that you don't

02:01really notice the controls. You're just kind of doing what you feel like is normal combat. And then in reality,

02:06you're doing all this crazy stuff with the skateboard that people watching look at it and they say,

02:12Holy crap. How did you do that? Where we ended up with the skateboard is so amazing that I'm just

02:19really proud. I'm really proud of what the team did. The risk was huge. And we finally put it into

02:24people's hands and we were terrified and it ended up being really cool. And that was really heartwarming

02:31because it was such a big, scary, risky feature for us.