Insomniac's debut of "Ricky and Tinker Bell" Caused a Lot of Discussion when the new protagonist "Levitt" in "Time Jump" was released. After the release of the game, the performance of the new female protagonist has won the hearts of many players.
In fact, in the early days of development, the new protagonist was not called "Levitt", but after some twists and turns, the name was finally decided.
Mark Stuart, chief designer of Insomniac Studio, recently shared this anecdote at GDC:
We wanted to create a strong, actionable female protagonist, code-named Ratchette at first, but that was too weak and reduced her presence as another dimensional, gender-sensitive Ricky.
After that, I simply called her Ricky. It also makes sense in the setting. But this kind of script is extremely confusing, such as Ricky needs to rescue Jingle from Ricky, who does not trust Ricky. It was later renamed Gadget, but this would be confused with the character of the same name in the 80s TV series.
It wasn't until someone thought of Rivet in a weekly meeting that people immediately fell in love with the name.
Mark Stuart also shared some of The original character design drawings of Levitt, you can see that there is a big difference between the shape and the current image, Stuart said that at the beginning, The setting of Levitt was a survival expert + beast tamer, but later this setting was abandoned with the advancement of game development.
The original visual diagrams are also quite beautiful