Escape from Vastin's Castle

The official site for Lord of the Rings Online has posted a new developer diary today. This on is by Cardell "Annuvin" Kerr.

Now for a trek down memory lane.

When I first rolled over to LOTRO from DDO, I was pretty focused on making sure the games were VERY different. We wanted the LOTRO play cycle to be different (ie: I wanted you to be able to play LOTRO for hours, while DDO's play cycle was typically higher impact, and thus shorter), and I wanted to focus on the protagonist, not the system. If anything, I wanted the system to be informed by the protagonist, since LOTRO is based off of a story, while DDO is based off of a system.

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