Todd Howard, director of Starfield, was interviewed by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and revealed more about his latest game.

He mentioned the things that inspired him to make Starfield: “Starfield had so many challenges. We kind of pushed ourselves in every part of the game. But the biggest challenge was, first of all, how do we create these planets? Is this even a good idea? Okay, maybe not at the time, but we made it work. You know, just, can we even generate a planet? And then once we could generate all these, the simulation of the solar systems around you. But at the end of the day, what’s fun about it? So there’s a technological challenge in making it work, but then there’s a design challenge in how do you make it fun minute by minute and then hour by hour for everybody who plays it?

In terms of other media that inspired us, it goes all the way back to Lord of the Rings. And then in science fiction, there have been so many: Interstellar, The Martian, Battlestar Galactica, the TV show. The Expanse, and there’s so much science fiction out there. We wanted something that really felt tactile, that you could believe how we got from where we are in our world today to 300 years in the future,” Howard said.

So Lord of the Rings and Battlestar Galactica are some of the bigger inspirations that we weren’t really expecting. In fact, the latter is a sci-fi franchise, but you wouldn’t think a Bethesda Game Studios game would come out of it. By the way, Starfield got the Shattered Space add-on for Xbox Series and PC yesterday. It can be purchased for $30, or if you have the Premium Edition of the base game, you can get access to the DLC for free.

As for Starfield: Shattered Space, it should be pointed out that Bethesda Game Studios and Microsoft have taken a very interesting approach, as no one in the press was given a review code before launch. Would the studio lack confidence in its product?

Source: WCCFTech