game development its weird games are powered by shortcuts timesavers and stuff that by rights shouldnt work however this is no excuse for the knowledge that bungie has inflicted upon me today it turns out the creation of destiny 2s lovable new robot dog archangel started with a pink gelatinous demon bungie released a development diary that absolutely no sane person asked for in its latest weekly blog post our team has really been able to stretch their creativity when it comes to adding fun delightful characters into the game like the fallen babies bobbleheads and starhorse the post begins suckering readers in with promises of wholesome details before hard pivoting to this bungie why via pictwittercomk1z9ytnxbkjanuary 12 2023see moreeach season we spend a bit of time brainstorming fun little easter eggs and for this season everyone wanted to build a robot dog but it wasnt that easy bungie explains after the team came up with the idea the first question was can i pet it and we knew the answer had better be yes so we quickly performed this interesting test to confirm that petting the dog was indeed possible bungie we need to have a conversation about what a dog is i would prefer the ugliest meanest loudest chihuahua i have ever met to the pink abomination i see before me why does it hold its arms like filthy frank cosplaying a trex why is it stuck in a perpetual air squat why does it bob its head like that when pet god you can practically hear the vertebra crunch get that thing out of here instead look at the first draft of the actual dog that went on to become archangel image credit bungieheres some good news while archangel will leave the tower for a while at the end of the season theyll return in season 21 for more pets if you need me i will be glued to archangels side spamming the pet button until the memory of this creature leaves my mind bungies also promising a shorter iron banner grind for the next event after the most recent one nearly broke the community