"We're creating something completely new, and that's a scary place, but if it's not scary, then it isn't going to be good."

-- Martin O'Donnell

This scene looks like it belongs to Earth's moon, perhaps overlooking the Hellmouth location pictured in other concept art images.

The color scheme makes this scene seem reminiscent of Covenant environments from Halo, but the structural elements in the distance seem human in origin, while those closer to the camera have that vaguely organic look Bungie has assigned to alien technology, most notably the Pfhor and the Covenant.

No action here, but our Guardian buddies sure do look good walking up some stairs.

The group of Guardians continue to advance towards the portal-like object.

As the players pass, the low pod-like object on the ground to the left glows with a golden sheen, perhaps indicating that it is a territorial marker, or perhaps something analogous to a Halo weapon drop pod.

Looking over the barrel of a futuristic-looking gun-- now it seems that we're looking at in-game footage or something close to it.

The artifact in the distance glowing blue may be some kind of transportation portal used for fast travel while on planets-- sort of like a World Knot from Myth.

The best thing about Bungie is, even though you know you have these crazy ideas, you know that they're going to get funnelled into a game that's fun.

This is the first shot in the ViDoc, aside from perhaps some of the spacecraft scenes, that look more like in-game footage than just concept art, or renders of game assets against a blank background.

Presumably this is the tower area overlooking the city where Guardian characters will congregate.

We're building something alive. It has a nature that we don't totally control. Things are going to happen that we don't plan, and that's amazing.

Sky above Venus.

A bold new action game, set in a living world

We're blazing a ton of new trails.

Bungie has generally preferred open plan or "war room" designs for their working spaces, and famously rebelled against Microsoft's cubicle culture shortly after the buyout. Desks are all on wheels, allowing for small teams to be configured and reconfigured quickly.

Some teams seem to be arranged around Destinations, such as the one in the center background with the Mars banner; others might be arranged around species, such as the one in the left foreground labeled "Vex".

The Destiny tricorn logo.

"We needed something that challenges and inspires all of us, something, that I think, has enough ideas in it that it'll last us for the next ten years."

-- Chris Butcher

One game a year between 1992 and 1998. My, how times (and development cycles) have changed.