David Candland
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Experience Design Director - UI/UX at EA's @CliffhangerDevs . Best known for my work on the Halo and Destiny games while at Bungie. Evil Otto (XBL)
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I’m thrilled to finally share the name of our new studio at EA and the project we’re working on!
An all-new
#BlackPanther
story begins here at Cliffhanger Games.
We’re a newly established
@EA
studio developing an original, single-player Black Panther action-adventure game exploring the world of Wakanda with
@MarvelGames
.
Learn more:
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...a common strategy employed since 2001.
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@RejectedShotgun
I got tired of drawing all those little digital bits and figured I could use a shortcut by shaving a long line of type in half, figuring nobody would notice.
Narrator: They did.
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Just came across this blast from the past. Video footage I took of our first playable E3 showing of Halo, complete with crappy statue of the Master Chief. Apparently I didn't know his name at that point.
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Hey everyone. This is a hard tweet for me to write, but today is going to be my last day at Bungie. The people here are fantastic and smart and I've enjoyed working here. I look back at what I've been able to accomplish these last 17+ years with immense gratitude.
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Interesting take on the Spartan HUD in the Halo series. It’s blue by default, but turns orange in combat zones.
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Here's something fun I came across today. An old mockup I did (circa 2005) of an in-world map for Halo 3. We actually got it functioning in-engine. After a short evaluation we decided not to move forward with the feature due to a wide range of issues.
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22 years later, I can't wait to talk about what I'm working on at EA.
What was the first game you worked on and which was the latest?👀
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Hi, I'm Dave, UX Director at Monolith. I'm working on SECRETS right now, but you know me from my previous work on UI
@Bungie
- Halo 1 thru Reach, as well as Destiny.
#MeetTheDev
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I don't think I ever sent this out widely before, but this is a video I showed when I spoke at a college art seminar years ago. This video shows the various Destiny HUD iterations before we landed on the final design. Enjoy!
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We finally get the Fall of Reach episode in the Halo series and don't see a single Spartan in armor the whole time. I was so disappointed. If we had even just crossed paths with any of these 3 for 10 seconds, I would've totally lost it, and all would be forgiven.
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Most of us that got one of these say it’s their favorite mug. Still mine.
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We’d been calling the game “Reach” for a while before MS insisted we call it “Halo Reach” for brand recognition. I remember discussing the title screen with
@game_fabricator
. We concurred, let’s call it what we want. They’ve bought the game at this point.
#REACHmemory
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Linkin Park were big Halo fans. They attended our Halo launch party in Chicago and we're so low key, we didn't notice they'd came.
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I will shout this from the mountaintops until the day I die.
@DarthBurrit0
@Slam_t4stic
@TheCartelDel
Combat Evolved was just a descriptor on the box. Not part of the game’s title.
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Seeing all these Halo Infinite updates makes me legitimately excited in a way I haven’t been about a video game in years. Can’t wait to play.
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One of my favorite things to work on for Reach was the Saber HUD. Getting it to feel like a fighter cockpit in the Halo universe, while communicating clearly was the challenge.
#REACHmemory
I would've really liked to see space combat return in subsequent installments.
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Several years ago, as the story goes, there was a small meeting at Bungie where ¾ of the attendees were named Dave. This was a catalyst that resulted in the Great Dave Solidarity of 2014.
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If I was only 3' tall, I know what my next purchase would be.
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Probably my favorite of the Halo UIs to work on. This also represents a lot of hard work by
@agdtinman
,
@vec4fish
, & art direction by
@game_fabricator
, among others. If I’m not mistaken, I believe
@Isaac_Hannaford
provided the art for the panoramas.
Making my own custom Main Menu design has really made me appreciate even more just how flawless Reach's UI design was.
It nailed everything it set out to do. There isnt a weak bone in its body. Excellent art, great animations, timeless layouts and smooth flow.
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Saladin: you lost the lead
Saladin: 3 Seconds remaining
Saladin: The wolves howl, you are hunted.
Opponents: GG
Me:
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Me in Iron Banner Supremacy, when I see an enemy crest just sitting out in the middle of an open area.
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When the 2.0 update drops, your title screen will update to say The Taken King.
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I'm not ready to talk about what my next chapter holds quite yet, but I will let you know as soon as I can speak about it publicly.
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You also may have noticed there’s no “combat evolved” on the original Halo title screen. That was tacked onto the box logo because the MS marketing team feared some people wouldn’t know “Halo” would be a combat game otherwise.
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I can’t wait to finally have everyone see what I’ve been working on for the past year.
Tomorrow, the second year of Destiny 2 will be revealed.
Join us on June 5 at 9am Pacific.
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Even tough I work for Bungie, I can still make silly fan films, right?
Drop what you're doing and watch this:
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When your fireteam beats the raid on day 1 and you all get the new armor drop.
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I drew this for the company Christmas card back in '04. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Not sure if I've shared this before, but I came across this today and thought I'd share. Here's an early mood test I did for the Reach UI.
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I'm excited to announce that today I started my first day at EA as Experience Design Director - UI/UX! I'm joining a few of my former colleagues as we build a new studio in the Seattle area on an unannounced project.
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Pro tip: when presented with your choice of 3 faction packages, you can press Y or triangle to preview the potential contents inside.
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This is pretty sweet. A modern take on the ODST menus.
Made a Halo ODST 2 UI concept, may have gone a bit overboard...
HD Video & Screenshots here, twitter is poop:
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Hardest, yet most rewarding thing I worked on in my professional career.
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Ha! I just got the achievement for finding the Easter egg of my name that I slipped into the Reach binoculars.
A big thanks to all my friends at 343 for the fun shout out. :D
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@MaxHoberman
I saved off some footage of that early party prototype here. The memories! And yes, that's
@MartyTheElder
and
@joestaten
lending their voice talents to enhance the presentation.
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What the... sigh. It's fake. Turning notifications off my phone and going back to sleep.
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Gonna break protocol and post a baby picture. This morning my son and his wife had a baby girl.
That's right, I'm officially a grandpa.
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Early build of Foundation. The lift kept resetting the ragdoll state, so bodies would never get garbage collected.
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Watching the Light & Magic series and thinking how cool it would’ve been to be part of that small and scrappy team that created Star Wars.
Then it dawned on me that there’s probably people out there that may think the same thing about our early Bungie team that created Halo.
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Every time I try to sell anything on Facebook marketplace:
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Final_design.psd
Final_final_design.psd
Final_final_final_design.psd
Really_final_design.psd
No_this_is_the_real_final_design.psd
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Subtle but useful Destiny UI Pro tip: when you see the white border around the boss heath bar go away, it conveys the boss is now in a damageable, unshielded state.
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@rainnwilson
I'm starting to re-think my theory that Hanna Montana and Miley Cyrus are actually the same person.
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Did I ever mention here that Tesla brought me in to interview with
@elonmusk
last year? I spent almost 1/2 an hour with him talking Halo, Destiny, and UX. The problems they’re solving in UI aren’t that different than the ones we address in game UI.
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Had a sudden urge to relive the Halo storylines, so I decided to play through Halo 1 through Reach, one right after the other. I've never played them sequentially so this aught to be fun. ama
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I created one of those posters we're selling for charity at PAX.
Here's a closer peek.
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This whole article is heartbreaking. I worked there for 18 years and to hear some of the rough things my friends there are going through is killing me.
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Looove this quote:
“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
― Neil Gaiman
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That shield meter looks a lot like one of my early designs for the rookie’s HUD in Reach.
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I don't usually post personal stuff here, but today is me and my wife's 30th wedding anniversary, and still going strong!
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Came across this today, thought I'd share. A Moa with no texture and bad physics during the development of Reach.
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Twenty years ago today! What an amazing phenomenon that I’m so happy to have been a part of.
I can hear this screen just by looking at it.
#Xbox20
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@DarthBurrit0
@Slam_t4stic
@TheCartelDel
Combat Evolved was just a descriptor on the box. Not part of the game’s title.
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Hey everyone, after a few weeks of home reno and a vacation trip with my family, I've started work at my new job. Today was my first day at
@MonolithDev
. l'll be staying here in the area and working on their next, unannounced title.
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Ok, I caved. One game of Halo 3.
I’ve still got it… the flaming recon and Bungie nameplate. Not so much the mad Halo 3 skills.
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So saddened to hear the news about
@linkinpark
's Chester. We were fans of each other's work. He had an amazing voice and will be missed.
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LP visited us again at Bungie around Halo 2. Chatting with them, I found we attended the same school and had several mutual acquaintances.
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LoL. I put that video together many Aprils ago by swapping out our Destiny font with Comic Sans and updating the HUD.
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of Marathon? I guess i would be remiss if I didn't have a few things to say about a game that literally changed my life.
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Finally got the last elusive piece to complete my 335 collection. A ghost from Variks.
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Just had a coworker ruin this for me, so obviously, I gotta share.
Halo 3: Odious Tea.
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Finally I can mention what I've been spending so much of my time on, getting it right. You got it, Destiny 2 will ship on the PC.
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Still easily the greatest Halo commercial of all time. Probably my favorite game commercial of all time.
On this day in 2009, Halo 3: ODST launched and we dropped feet first into hell.
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This is the frame where I knew they had me with the nostalgia.
> Marathon... compiling
> Coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
> Extracting data...
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@Slam_t4stic
@DarthBurrit0
@TheCartelDel
“Combat Evolved” was added to the box art by a nervous Microsoft exec who was worried people wouldn’t know it was a combat game. The title filed with the ESRB was Halo. But what would I know?
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Absolutely unbelievable. That's some skills. Player Goes Solo In Trials Without Dying.
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So for those wondering- while it worked really well in sectioned, tiered maps like Lockout or Ascension, the tech didn't fare so well on large flat open areas like Valhalla. Apart from technical concerns, players were spending too much time looking at the map instead of fighting.
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Halo: Reach and Halo 3 on the PC? Sold!
Halo: The Master Chief Collection – with the addition of Halo: Reach – is coming to PC later this year on
@windowsstore
&
@steam_games
. Learn more about our journey to bring these legendary Halo experiences to your computer:
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Another Halloween marks the completion of another year at Bungie for me. This makes 16.
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Wow. First time ever seeing the Northern lights in the Seattle area. And I’ve lived here my whole life.
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Ha! Just had someone at EA use my own art as a reaction emoji in slack to a post I made; the Halo 3 killionaire medal.
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I was googling for the Reach waypoints today and couldn't find a single reference, so I had to dig through my archives to find one. I don't know if all of these got used or not. Enjoy!
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In WW2, fighter pilots would often mark their planes with an icon representing each enemy they’ve taken out.
Sometimes when I get behind a minivan with a bunch of people stickers, I pretend it means the same thing.
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In a show of united supremacy. The Daves decided that we needed shirts made. A Dave uniform, if you will. It was a riff off the other shirt. This one would say, “Be Dave.”
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Wow! My brother just sent me this screenshot. I've wondered where that went. I have no idea how I lost it and it ended up here. All I can figure is it got left at a LAN party, a kid's friend swiped it, or it ended up in a box of donations or something.
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How's everyone enjoying the Destiny 2 Beta title screen/loading screen/server dialog game so far?
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You can’t have toxic communication in your game if your game doesn’t allow player communication.
#gameuxsummit
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15 years ago I got my signed developer's special edition of the original Xbox, along with this very copy of Halo.
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Gamasutra interviewed 6 UI people in the games industry about great examples of HUD. See what I had to say. Agree?
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TIL that my mother is anti-vax and the only reason she immunized me was because the school district required it before I could attend.
All I gotta say is a huge thank you, to Renton School District!
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Here's a sneak preview of my GDC talk. There's a few unseen concepts in there. Enjoy, and hope to see you there!
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Weird. Did anybody else's Felwinter's helm just get disabled? Not seeing anything online.
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