But you have already cursed yourselves. You have walked the Anathematic Arc and glimpsed creation from below. You will never forget the tenuous, provisional framework you found here. You will never forgive the mortality and fallibility that underlies a world you thought was everything.
This site documents the story of Bungie’s video games Destiny and Destiny 2. Not as a simple lore reference or in-universe timeline, but as a timeline of how Destiny was developed, and how its story and content evolved over time.
This site documents the story of a studio that built a live service game without having any understanding of what would be required to support it, forcing them to spend a decade contorting previously developed content into new forms.
It’s the story of a freelance writer, hired just a few months before a major expansion shipped, banging out a written narrative considered so unimportant that you could only view in a phone app, accidentally setting up the franchise’s next decade of story.
It’s the story of one of the worst contracts between a game’s publisher and developer ever signed.
It’s the story of a toxic work culture that lead to constant employee turnover and a Ship of Theseus development team, with writers and designers constantly picking up where others had left off.
In other words: it’s a very poorly-planned game and universe, and that makes it much more interesting to analyze than if they had actually planned everything out from the start.
Disclaimer
This is a fansite that aims to understand the story of Destiny and the history of its development using a variety of sources. These sources include the game itself, press coverage of the game, reporting on the game’s development, social media discussions of the game, and statements by the game’s development team.
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