Bioshock Infinite's dancing bread boy has finally been explained

Bioshock Infinite
(Image credit: Bಌioshock Infinite (courtesy PC Gamer)♐)

The origin of the bemusing yet lꦿoveable dancing bread boy from Bioshock Infinite has finally been explained by the animator responsible.

You'll no doubt remember the jubilant subject of this here article from Bioshock Infinite's Burial at Sea DLC, where he can be found acting exactly as one should after ac♚quiring a baguette in France. Legend s꧂ays he's still dancing around that column today.

It's all thanks to a tweet from Pocklecool that we now have an explanation for baguette boy - not that we needed one, of course. Again, there's nothing here to suggest anything but a wholly healthy 🧸relationship with bread, but since it stands out as such a flagrant indulgence in the st✤ereotype that French people like baguettes, it's good to have a definitive answer at last. And, yeah, it turns out there probably wasn't  a whole lot more thought put into it than that.

As animator Gwen Frey in a response to the above tweet, Bioshock🃏 Infinite's bread boy was put there to liven up the Parisian scene. Frey said most of the game's background characters were referred to as "chumps," which means they're programmed to loop through a basic animation instead of wander around with AI pathfinding, and bread boy is no exception.

"I thought the Paris scene was too static & needed more motion, I but couldn't afford another AI walking around," said Frey. "I figured a chump running in a circle around that cylinder could work since I c💜ould just expand the collision of it to prevent the player from running through them."

Since Frey didn💦't have a canned running-in-circle animation on hand, she used the dancing animation from and thus began bread boy's carb-fueled tango. Originally, there were two kids dancing around together, but they were clipping into the ground and each other, which would make for a very awkward dance.

"So I 🍬deleted the boy's dancing partner and attached a baguette to his hands. Bam! Boy dances witᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚh baguette! Ship it! 

"I figured if anyone asked I'd just say 'bread is great right?!' I didn't think anything of iꦡt at the time, but this boy is the most viral thing I've ever made"

🃏𒊎Ultimately, Frey is 100% correct; the scene is self-explanatory. Still, we appreciate the clarification as well as the reminder to show the same level of enthusiasm every time we get our hands on some fresh-baked bread.

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After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as Games♛Radar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home offic✨e, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.