Aspects of Path of Exile and the More Artistic Ones

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Throughout 2017, Grinding Gear was a busy company with expanding POE Currency . Between The Fall of Oriath and War for the Atlas and together with all of the new content added involving, Exiles had a lot to do. In our newest Exiled Tribune we take a return with the team in the year that was and catch up on design and development blogs across several topics.

The very first article of note on the PoE website comes in the kind of a handy dandy list of all Grinding Gears' achievements throughout 2017. It's an impressive list, however by no means inclusive of everything which was achieved through the entire year. Most notably, of course, would be the two enormous content expansions that dropped, initially The Fall of Oriath after which War for the Atlas near the close of the year. In between, record numbers of players were engaged, three obstacle leagues started, new language support was included and much, much more. Of course, the most essential thing is that Chris Wilson found an Exalted Orb!

First up is a detailed and fascinating perspective on the design philosophy behind the Undying. Developers felt that the Undying was a "relatively unremarkable monster type" and wished to do something more to make it stand out from the match. To this end, the team went through a series of preparation phases to create something special for the race throughout the game.

Updates over the past few months have really been based on the "how-to" elements of growth. Not only is it fun to browse for budding game developers, it's also a great deal of fun to see for players who just like to know "what's going on under the hood" with game's advancement and why particular design decisions are made. Between the technical aspects of POE Goods and the more artistic ones, the posts provide readers with insight into their preferred game.