Gabe’s story takes place in a time period that I wasn’t overly familiar with when I started and, as you can probably imagine, I made some mistakes in my first pass. The team did a really amazing job providing feedback and fact-checking on the first draft of the manuscript. The specifics of what happens in the novels is up to me, though of course they give feedback after a first draft is done.Īnd how else did the people from The Coalition influence the story in Gears Of War: Bloodlines? Instead they simply told me where things stand once the game(s) pick the narrative back up, and my job was simply to make sure everything flowed nicely into that. It wasn’t so much that they needed specific things to happen in the book. Telling both in the same book seemed like a natural solution.Īnd in working on the story for Gears Of War: Bloodlines, did the good people at The Coalition ever say anything along the lines of, “Okay, we need this to happen in the story…and we can’t tell you why”? We explored a bunch of options, and the two most interesting stories to me were what happened during that gap in Gears 5, and who Gabe Diaz is.
When in the process of writing Gears Of War: Ascendance did you come up with the idea for Gears Of War: Bloodlines, and how did that idea evolve as you wrote it?īloodlines came from discussions I had with the narrative team at The Coalition after Ascendance was written. Chronologically, it takes place during the Pendulum Wars, leading up to the events of Gears Tactics. That’s the second story within Bloodlines, and it takes up about two-thirds of the novel. In the game, there’s a “Four months later…” gap - this story fills in that portion.ĭuring this, Kait learns a lot about her own father’s past. The first is focused on Kait Diaz, during a time period that takes place after a pivotal event during Gears 5. To begin, what is Gears Of War: Bloodlines about, and how does it connect, both narratively and chronologically, to the games Gears 5 and Gears: Tactics as well as your novel, Gears Of War: Ascendance and the Gears Of War comics?
Now, with Gears Of War: Bloodlines ( paperback, Kindle, audiobook), Hough is not only filling in a gap within Gears 5 but - as he explains in the following email interview about it - the time before the newest installment, Gears Tactics.
Hough’s military sci-fi novel Gears Of War: Ascendance filled in the gap between the end of the 2016 video game Gears Of War 4 and its 2019 sequel, Gears 5.
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