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MinnMax Interview - From Destiny To Forspoken With Dan Callan
🕑 Added 2022-03-14 16:15:01 +0000 UTC
MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Dan Callan about his incredible and wide-ranging career in the game industry. Callan has professionally role-played as Morpheus in The Matrix Online, launched Resistance 2, worked on multiple Halo games, survived the launch of Destiny, and even travelled to Japan to work as a level designer for Square-Enix's upcoming open-world, action-RPG Forspoken. He's now a lead level designer at Postcard Game Studio building a new IP with an independent team.
You can watch and share the video version of this interview here - https://youtu.be/-49bwJHhQ88
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:22 - Dan Callan’s wild career
00:05:23 - Nintendo/WarioWare
00:07:12 - The Matrix Online
00:15:00 - Halo 3
00:20:05 - Insomniac Games
00:26:30 - Halo Reach
00:30:09 - Halo 4
00:37:21 - Lessons on team leadership
00:41:31 - Destiny and The Taken King
00:56:14 - Forspoken with Square-Enix
01:20:22 - Going independent with Postcard Game Studio
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Comments
Reed
Thanks for this really good, down-to-earth interview!
Owen McCarter
These two recent interviews have had some excellent insight into game development. Awesome work Ben, keep these interviews coming!
