TE: Not only are you making an MMO, which is quite a risk in itself, but you are adopting game systems that we haven’t really seen before. Gordon Walton: There’s something to being a contrarian you know. He knows what he shouldn’t do but he does it anyway. Todd Coleman: Gordon never follows his own advice. The Escapist: Gordon, you gave a famous talk at GDC, “Ten Great Reasons You Don’t Want To Make an MMO” and here you guys are making an MMO. They are industry veterans with encyclopedic knowledge of the MMO genre and I wanted to take advantage of that knowledge with some higher level industry questions as well as some specific questions about Crowfall itself.

Todd is well known for creating Shadowbane and then his work on the more youth-oriented Wizard101 and Pirate101, while Gordon served as executive producer on such titles as Ultima Online, The Sims Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and Star Wars The Old Republic. I was lucky enough to spend an hour on Skype with ArtCraft founders J. There, players are able to set the rules and determine whether PvP or building destruction, using the game’s voxel-based graphics, are allowed. The exception to this lack of persistence is an area they call the Eternal Kingdoms, home to a robust player housing system that includes large castles and modifiable terrain. Campaigns can last anywhere from days to several months or longer, and each new campaign can be adjusted by the developer to account for different player strategies. Not only is player persistence fluid, but the world is built of campaigns that have certain win conditions and actually end when those conditions are met. Though you can possess different archetypes, the skills for your character remain intact on your spiritual form. Rather than being restricted to one class, players are essentially spirits in the form of crows, able to possess different bodies and different archetypes (classes). With Crowfall, ArtCraft is taking the concept of persistence and throwing it for a loop. Enter ArtCraft Entertainment and Crowfall, a radical new MMO that seeks to breathe new life into the genre and break the endless cycle of copycats.

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