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From our UI Artist, Jeff: "Oh ya we do a lot of focus testing to see what players are missing/not understanding in our UI and try to fix it. It usually works pretty well and we get positive results. It's just a matter of going through each area of the UI and making the improvements which is often just polish but sometimes it's just the small things that have a huge impact. :-)"

Everyone in the studio is constantly playing games and consuming media. We also hire from all over the industry. We have people who worked on LoL, Mass Effect, Guild Wars, and a tonnnnn of other games.

You can definitely see a lot of their background/experience, as well as their fandom, shown in their work.

From Katie: "It was a while ago - but I love dark and creepy things so I wanted to do something a bit more monstrous than what we had done in the past"

You can also find her over on twitter: https://twitter.com/katiedesousa?lang=en

From Katie, who works heavily on the concepts around Hunt Passes:
"We source ideas from the whole team for huntpass themes, then we discuss them to see what would be the best fit for a particular patch"
I definitely recommend checking out her work on twitter: https://twitter.com/katiedesousa?lang=en

I'll try to poke our concept artist about this one, but for the Vault, that's more on design. We look at the success of prior items while also taking into account community sentiment around them.

Hmm, not sure who was on that specific asset. I'll see if I can track them down for you!

What Kienan said! There comes a lot of legal baggage when using a fan design. That being said, if we ever went this route in the future, we'd let you know :)

You'll have to wait and see...

Hey everyone and welcome to our Artist AMA.

Have any questions about the art process of Dauntless? Want to know more about the art side of game development? Curious about the tools of the trade?

Ask our artists anything your heart desires!

No side scroller beat 'em up?!

We're looking into this now. Hold tight!

This is an issue that we are currently working on. Thanks for your patience while we work this out :)

Thanks for posting this Syra!

Thanks for the heads up. We're looking into this now!

Mind elaborating on this so we can follow up?

Hi there, I don't think we'll be able to fix this for you since it's hyper-specific.

Wish I could help!

Is that a neopet or wha?

Hey! Thanks for dropping by and playing.

I do my best to get in here and share quality feedback with the entire team. A ton of our devs read the Reddit daily as well. You're bound to run into them eventually.

A great place for feedback is our Focused Feedback threads ran by our moderator. These are threads where we hone in on a feature and request thoughts from the community.

I'd definitely recommend stopping by the next one when it pops up.

We also have community events on our discord where devs play with the fans. That's where you can find me getting bodied by Behemoths...

Thanks for the ideas. I'll pass them on to the team.

As for the question about lore being tied to the Ramsgate rework... Oh yes. It will.