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'From a story and background design. How easy/hard was it to portray each character? By that I mean each of their own personalities by the myths we know? Also what was your inspiration for this type of storyline? I'm enjoying the game and all the dialogue as well! From a person looking to get into Narrative Design/Writing. I love it!'

Speaking personally, my inspirations for the story are first and foremost the classic canon mythology itself, such as the work of Homer, and the scraps of Aeschylus' work suggesting Hades might have had a son. The idea that he might have had a son but that no one knows anything about him was too compelling to pass up. More broadly, though, it's a story about family, and my own experience informs it at least indirectly. I know that Greek myth is well-trodden territory for fiction and it was important that we only endeavor to make a work in that genre if we felt we had something to add. So our point of view is that the Olympians are compelling because they are the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the canon myth, they are messy, complicated characters, and I was very drawn to that idea. I also love The Iliad a lot and found this to be a good excuse to portray Achilles in a game, one of my favorite characters from fiction. (To what extent The Iliad is fiction I guess is debatable but you know what I mean.)