In fact, my favorite combo in the video might be that Heihachi juggle with the Tekken bowling pin, and the setup for that was suggested by Heihachi’s animator, Jerome. (You know you’re working in a top tier fighting game studio when animators are giving you combo ideas!)

We actually worked very closely with Sony Santa Monica to get Kratos to look and feel as much like the Kratos from God of War as possible. We do that with every studio that lends us a character, so they all end up feeling super authentic. As for me, my day-to-day work is mostly focused on items, but i’ve also helped flesh out the combo system and just character balance in general. We have a lot of really good character designers though, so Kratos and Parappa are in capable hands.

Don’t worry about scripting combos just yet. You can get pretty far with an idle dummy and a static level wall. You don’t even need fancy trade setups to come up with really interesting combos. I think you guys will have a lot of fun with it.

Also it must have been amazing to have a partner like Clockw0rk, who actually gets fighting games, to help with combos. There are so many things I want to test with a human second player but it would take way too long to get them inside my head, to see what it is I’m going for etc. I guess that’s where programming/scripting comes in, but that has its own issues.