{"id":260382,"date":"2025-10-08T00:03:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/george-r-r-martins-time-working-on-elden-ring-ended-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:03:39","slug":"george-r-r-martins-time-working-on-elden-ring-ended-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/george-r-r-martins-time-working-on-elden-ring-ended-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"George R. R. Martin&#8217;s Time Working On Elden Ring Ended Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/george-r-r-martins-time-working-on-elden-ring-ended-years-ago.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Video games unsurprisingly take a long time to create, and the process unfolds in different ways for every game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/product\/elden-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elden Ring<\/a> is like every other game in this respect, but it\u2019s been under a microscope this week, in part because of the excitement from its fanbase, but also because we haven\u2019t heard much about it in quite a while. Following the premiere of the new trailer at Summer Game Fest, the silence of a key creative mind on the project has been broken. That person, of course, is famed novelist and creator of the <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>\u00a0series George R. R. Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Martin was being recognized this week with an honorary doctorate awarded from his alma mater, Northwestern\u2019s Medill School of Journalism. During an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2021\/06\/16\/george-rr-martin-talks-northwestern-writing-and-game-thrones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> about his life and career with Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW, Martin\u2019s foray into game development was brought up. He spoke briefly on when he was part of the Elden Ring project. \u201cMy work on it was actually done years ago. These games, they\u2019re like movies. They take a long time to develop,\u201d says Martin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, they wanted a world created to set the game in. They wanted world building; as a big factor in fantasy and science fiction. And you\u2019re not only talking the characters and the plot, but the setting is almost as important as everything else,\u201d Martin says, then lists famous fantasy worlds such as J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Middle Earth. He continues about his development time on Elden Ring, \u201cI worked up a fairly detailed background for them, and then they took it from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like Martin has been hands-off the project since. He wraps up on Elden Ring and his time working alongside From Software with this: \u201cIt\u2019s been several years since I\u2019ve last seen them, but they would come in periodically and show me some monsters they designed, or the latest special effects and cool things. But the game has been slowly developing and now it\u2019s coming out in January, I believe, so I\u2018ll be as excited as anybody else to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> creator isn\u2019t personally writing all of the juicy lore-full item descriptions himself, his early work on developing the setting and history of Elden Ring\u2019s The Lands Between will echo certainly through the game.<\/p>\n<p>Elden Ring is set to release on January 21, 2022 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X\/S, Xbox One, and PC. There\u2019s an abundance of Elden Ring knowledge to absorb in the meantime. Check out Game Informer\u2019s stories about what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/e3-2021\/2021\/06\/14\/how-elden-rings-open-world-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new open world<\/a> is like, and how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/06\/14\/how-elden-ring-spirit-body-companions-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blue \u201cspirit bodies\u201d<\/a> from the trailer play a role in the game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/06\/18\/george-r-r-martins-time-working-on-elden-ring-ended-years-ago\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video games unsurprisingly take a long time to create, and the process unfolds in different ways for every game. Elden Ring is like every other game in this respect, but it\u2019s been under a microscope this week, in part because of the excitement from its fanbase, but also because we haven\u2019t heard much about it in quite a while. Following the premiere of the new trailer at Summer Game Fest, the silence of a key creative mind on the project has been broken. That person, of course, is famed novelist and creator of the A Song of Ice and Fire\u00a0series George R. R. Martin. Martin was being recognized this week with an honorary doctorate awarded from his alma mater, Northwestern\u2019s Medill School of Journalism. 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