

Our codename for a long time was Bird Dog, which is BD, and that was weird because we figured out the codename before we really figured out what the personality for BD was going to be, and when we started to really nail that down, we said, “Well we want him to be sort of like Woodstock from Charlie Brown, the little yellow bid, but we also want him to be like a loyal dog.” And our codename was Bird Dog. There’s another funny part about the name too. At the time, we were working on Titanfall 2, and we had BT, which is Buddy Titan, in Titanfall 2, so I just penciled him in as Buddy Droid, Buddy Droid-1, and it just stuck. When we made what I would call like our one-page of what the game was, I wanted to have a droid in the game as kind of a companion to Cal that would help him not only by keeping him going mentally when he was out in the wild, but also provide really important features and mechanics. Is there a story behind the design of that character? Cal also has a cool new droid helping him out, BD-1.
