Instead of adapting the animation, though, Rare’s animation engineers just replaced the fruit. “I don’t even know if he put it in as a joke,” Neate said of the culprit, who’s known around the studio for his sense of humor. Sea of Thieves is the kind of game that Rare is developing in stages it’s constantly in flux, as its ongoing alpha tests prove. When the company showed its latest demo at E3, it hadn’t gotten much external feedback yet on little animations like stuffing a whole banana into a pirate’s off-screen mouth. Even strange little features like this are the kind of thing that PC design lead Ted Timmins told us is up to the fans to weigh in on. “When no one gives you feedback that the banana is weird, everyone is like, ‘This is cool,’ OK, that’s now the law of the game.” “If we were building Sea of Thieves in the older traditional space” - as a product insulated from most outside impressions - “you would pull a ship up, take out a banana and it would peel,” Timmins said. The law of the game is something Rare takes literally with Sea of Thieves. Neate and Timmins considered having all players even sign a contract agreeing to follow a set of rules of conduct, designed and agreed upon collaboratively with the various alpha testers who are already playing Sea of Thieves. We see what you did with #BananaChallenge and we're impressed. GiiLJDPK8A- Sea of Thieves JBut we see your banana and raise you this coconut. ( A lengthy joke thread on Twitter that claimed pirates actually ate bananas peel-on and stem-first particularly struck a chord with Rare.) “Let’s get more stupid things that we can eat!” Neate said as the “cronch” meme grew in popularity throughout E3 week.

There are plenty of other ways to joke around in the game, too, as we discovered during our hands-on at E3.

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