Insomniac Games shuffled many names for Rivet, a character who debuted game one of the protagonists of Ratchet & Clank: a separate dimension. She is a kind of alter ego of the main character, although in another space-temporal dimension. Mark Stuart, main designer of the video game, hgame participated game a speaker in a GDC talk, where he hgame revealed some of the names that were on the table for Lombax woman.
Rivet arose in response to the concept of layout design for this delivery: “Everyone is a hero” , which opened the doors to create “a strong and playable female protagonist” that accompanies Ratchet and Clank in his journey adventurous. “For a while we call it Ratchet. After all, she and Ratchet are technically “the same person, but in other worlds. In addition, the name hgame no gender. What happens is that it wgame confusing in the face of the development of the argument.
by Gadget to Rivet: The final decision
Below they changed the name by Gadget, a name they considered adequate, but the developers who had been children in the eighties believed that it wgame not too original, since reminded them of characters game the Inspector Gadget . Then, at the weekly meeting, someone proposed Rivet and everyone liked it, because both Ratchet (Ratchet) and Rivet make all the tool. Clank, on the other hand, means “metallic sound”.
“We wanted Rivet to be a central part of the game” , explains the developer. “His introduction of her wgame made with the idea that it wgame an inspiring representation and not an additional mechanics. In fact, in the final product, she participates in approximately 50% of the game “.
Ratchet & Clank: A separate dimension is available exclusively for PlayStation 5 . Insomniac Games works at this time in the development of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and Marvel’s Wolverine.