Das postapokalyptische MMORPG Fallen Earth scheint langsam aber sicher Form anzunehmen und die Betaphase rückt näher. In letzter Zeit tauchten immer mehr Interviews und Informationen über das Spiel auf.

Wes Platt, Content-Developer bei Icarus Studios, stand jüngst TenTonHammer für ein Interview zur Verfügung. Darin könnt Ihr etwas über Wes Platt und seinen Beruf sowie mehr zur Hintergrundgeschichte von Fallen Earth erfahren.

Q: There must be a few things that took you by surprise in the development of a 3D MMO. What have you learned since joining Icarus Studios? What things are different?

A: Oh, many things are different, besides the obvious focus on visuals instead of words. From a development standpoint, it's a good sort of different. With the prose-based games, the storylines are driven by a give-and-take between the players and the staffers (effectively game masters/dungeon masters in tabletop games). It's real-time storytelling. That's a lot of work, flying by the seat of your pants. With an MMO, you can still have storytelling, but we can actually plan for specific outcomes and write with those outcomes in mind. It's not quite as on-the-fly and improvisational as the prose-based games.