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Ari Gibson

Co-creator of Hollow Knight, Team Cherry

u/Ari_TeamCherry ↗Personal account

How we know it's theirs

Moderator-assigned “Team Cherry” flair in r/NintendoSwitch

We retrieved 69 comments from u/Ari_TeamCherry, dated 2017 to 2018, most often in r/gaming and r/NintendoSwitch.

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A redditor wrote in r/gaming

On “We are Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight! Ask us anything!”

Hey TC, thanks for making an amazing game! Lore questions - How does Leg Eater convince the Lumaflies in his fireplace not to fly away? - Can you wink-nudge us in the direction of understanding the hidden Grub diagram in the Tower of Love, or is that going to be a "hmm…

u/Ari_TeamCherry replied

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Vespa to Hornet was intentional. There was an old concept here that may still apply: Hornet was the 'Child of Three Queens,' one birthed, one raised, one trained. It is from the third queen that Hornet took her name. Whether that notion still applies however, I can't confirm, though it was definitely the basis for the names.

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A redditor wrote in r/NintendoSwitch

On “We're Team Cherry and we just released Hollow Knight on Nintendo Switch! Ask us anything!”

is Herrah Bipedal, or quadrupedal, and how would she wear pants?

u/Ari_TeamCherry replied

There's not really a concept of 'clothes' in Hallownest. There are cloaks, but most of the bugs are naked. It's an all nude kingdom.

A redditor wrote in r/gaming

On “We are Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight! Ask us anything!”

Why was it decided to cut certain content from the game? (Eg. The forest of bones, or dream diving) And is there a possibility of them still appearing?

u/Ari_TeamCherry replied

We did experiment with a full dream diving system (Dream levels in every NPC's head!), but it ended up feeling really disjointed and distracted from exploring the world. The time we saved making dream levels went into more fully fleshing…

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Boneforest made the world map too big! Some players get overwhelmed, even at the current size. It was a huge area. Also we would have died making it. We're a tiny team!