The MMO shooter Destiny has once again enlisted support for the story. Since September, they have a new lead writer on board.
As it has just now become known, the author Chris Schlerf switched to Bungie as lead writer back in September. He had worked for two years at Bioware in Montreal and was the “lead writer” for the highly anticipated Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Before his time at Bioware, Chris Schlerf spent 4 years at Studio 343 and worked on Halo 4 there.
Destiny has often been criticized in the past for showing weaknesses particularly in story development, after the actual author John Staten left the development of the game or was let go. As it later leaked, Bungie was not satisfied with his work and had to tell the story actually without an author later on.
The authors’ team should now slowly be in place
With “The Taken King,” Bungie seemed to have gotten the narrative curve right, although there has been no new story content since then.
In recent months, there have been repeated reports that Bungie is ramping up on the story front. In August, they brought in Christine Thompson, the lead writer of Star Trek Online, as a senior writer. In early 2015, Jerry Ryan from Guild Wars 2 also joined, and he is now responsible for ensuring that the background and the world of Destiny are consistent.
Back at the beginning of 2015, we reported that Destiny was still looking for a lead writer. By now, the position has been filled by Schlerf. Since Schlerf has been at Bungie since September, we could already recognize a new handwriting in the next content updates .
