For our ninth Loading... Live vooncast and fourth dev chat, we're joined by Curt Schilling and Steve Danuser of 38 Studios, currently deep in development on their super-secret MMORPG project with the working title of Copernicus. While they weren't able to discuss their MMO, Curt and Steve had a number of insights about the MMO industry in general, from working with a new IP compared to an established license, to PvP and storytelling, to a surprisingly simply answer to what made WoW such a success, to Curt's interest in hex gaming and why the success of Copernicus would be good news for war gamers everywhere. Join us for an enjoyable chat with one of the industry's most promising development houses in Loading... Live #10 - A 38 Studios Dev Chat with Curt Schilling and Steve Danuser!

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Synopsis: For our ninth Loading... Live vooncast and fourth dev chat, we're joined by Curt Schilling and Steve Danuser of 38 Studios, currently deep in development on their super-secret MMORPG project with the working title of Copernicus.

While they weren't able to discuss their MMO in particular, Curt and Steve had a number of insights about the MMO industry in general, from working with a new IP compared to an established license, to PvP and storytelling, to a surprisingly simply answer to what made WoW such a success, to Curt's interest in hex gaming and why the success of Copernicus would be good news for war gamers everywhere.

Join us for an enjoyable chat with one of the industry's most promising development houses in Loading... Live #9 - A 38 Studios Dev Chat with Curt Schilling and Steve Danuser!


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Participants

Hosts

  • Cody Bye
    Executive Editor- Ten Ton Hammer Network
  • Ben "Machail" de la Durantaye
    Managing Editor - Ten Ton Hammer Network

Co-Hosts

  • Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle
    Ten Ton Hammer Editor-in-Chief
  • Reuben "Sardu" Waters
    Ten Ton Hammer Staff Writer

Guests

  • Curt Schilling
    38 Studios Founder and Chairman
  • Steve Danuser
    38 Studios Dir. of Community Development, Lead Content Designer
  • You!
    Join us next week on Voon in room: Ten Ton Events.

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Introductions
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  • 0:23 Introductions

We introduce our special guest and not-so-special host and co-host, then move straight to the news so we have plenty of time for questions.

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  • Loading... - Ten Ton Hammer's daily newsletter and column

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News and Events
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  • 1:18 The Machail Report
  • 1:21 IGG Player Cops
  • 2:02 Zork not an MMO
  • 4:09 NCSoft 1st, Second Life 2nd

In this week's Machail Report, we take a good look at the IGG program that lets players police goldselling spammers, correct our initial report that 1977 text-based fan favorite Zork was making a comeback as an MMO, and have this week's Worlds.com outlandish claim.

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Dev Chat with Champions Online's Bill Roper
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  • 6:05 Status Update
  • 7:38 Why a Standalone IP?
  • 11:21 Biggest Gaming Influences
  • 14:32 EQ's Tenth Anniversary
  • 15:58 Any other genre?
  • 16:47 Storytelling
  • 19:40 Best world?
  • 23:19 Dynamic story
  • 24:18 PvP
  • 27:05 War Gaming
  • 29:42 How WoW Did It
  • 33:23 Fantasy
  • 35:08 Comfortable World
  • 36:45 Getting Involved
  • 41:48 Wrap-up

Curt Schilling is a future hall-of-fame pitcher with a serious love of games. Steve "Moorgard" Danuser is one of the most notable names in MMO community with his work on EQ2 and his blog. Together they form the dynamic duo that can't discuss much about Copernicus, but tell us plenty about how they believe a game should be made.

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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016

About The Author

Jeff joined the Ten Ton Hammer team in 2004 covering EverQuest II, and he's had his hands on just about every PC online and multiplayer game he could since.

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