Trivia / Dust: An Elysian Tail

• Defictionalization: Noogy has stated that he's seeing if he can find someone who can make real life nimbat dolls.
• Doing It for the Art: The game. No one asked Dean Dodrill to make Dust: An Elysian Tail, no one paid him, not too many people helped him, he did it because he wanted to.
  Dean Dodrill: "Dust is a culmination of all the things I like in games. I love 3D games, but have a deep fondness for a good '2D' game. ... I know that a lot of people miss that 'look'. So it was my goal to create the best looking 2D game I could make."
• Schedule Slip: Dean Dodrill, the creator of Dust: An Elysian Tail, assumed it would take three months to complete the game; it actually took over three-and-a-half years.
• What Could Have Been: Interviews with the creator reveal that a lot of content had to ultimately be axed due to both time and budget constraints, including a town-building sidequest, Item Crafting, and General Gaius' motive for his genocidal campaign.
  • Additionally, Lucien was going to voice Ahrah, with a friend of his, Phillip Sacramento, playing Dust, but real life happened to Phillip on short notice, and he had to bow out. Lucien ended up getting cast twice.
  • Dean Dodrill had another 'mascot' character, Bonnie, who was originally one of the major characters in Elysian Tail until Dust was envisioned.

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