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City of Heroes Sr. Designer Talks Architect System 56

Posted by Soulskill from the farming-made-easy dept.
Kheldon writes "The MMO Gamer sits down with Joe Morrissey, a Senior Designer at Paragon Studios, to discuss the inspiration behind, and current implementation of, the Architect user-generated content system in City of Heroes. Quoting: 'Really for me, wanting tools so the rest of the team could actually come up with content was the idea. Because we have a lot of guys on the team that are hardcore players, they play the game all the time. Then they come to me like, "I’ve got this idea for this story, we should really do this arc with this guy!" And I’m like, "That’s great. I haven’t got time to do it. I’ve got plenty of other story arcs to work on." But, if we made the tools easy enough, then they could actually come up with the arcs, and we can put them out. Then somewhere along that road it dawned on me: Why stop with the rest of the team?'"

Submission + - City of Heroes Sr Designer Talks Architect System (mmogamer.com)

Submitted by Kheldon
Kheldon writes: The MMO Gamer sits down with Joe Morrissey, a Senior Designer at Paragon Studios to discuss the inspiration behind, and current implementation of the Architect user-generated content system in City of Heroes.

Submission + - Lorien Gremore Talks SOE's Spy-MMO The Agency (mmogamer.com)

Submitted by Kheldon
Kheldon writes: The MMO Gamer's Steve sits down with Lorien Gremore, Lead Producer on SOE’s upcoming spy-shooter, The Agency.

Topics discussed include the “stickiness” of session-based games, striking a balance between FPS and MMO players, and whether or not The Agency even falls under the definition of a traditional MMO at all.

http://www.mmogamer.com/10/15/2009/lorien-gremore-the-agency

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