Posted by Draedus in Vanguard GameSpot
EverQuest cocreator Brad McQuaid has a new fantasy-themed online RPG in development, and he gives us the details in this interview. Brad McQuaid revolutionized online role-playing games when he helped cocreate Sony Online Entertainment’s EverQuest more than five years ago.
EverQuest was a blockbuster success, and it remains one to this day. More than five years after its launch, it continues to be the most successful online RPG in North America. But McQuaid made industry shockwaves when he left SOE in late 2001.
Posted by Draedus in Vanguard GameSpot
Andrew Park of Gamespot sits down with Sigil Games’ Jeff Butler, Brad McQuaid, and Keith Parkinson for an advance look at the studio’s upcoming MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role playing game) at E3 2004. Microsoft Game Studios was on hand at E3 2004 with its upcoming massively multiplayer game Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. The game has been in development at Sigil Games, a studio founded by some of the original creators of EverQuest–designers Brad McQuaid and Jeff Butler, and fantasy artist Keith Parkinson.
The new game is currently in a pre-alpha stage, but it already features a number of built-out environments, including an expansive dry swampland lined with short grass and dotted with towering pillars of rock. We then moved to a huge town with cobblestone streets lined with crowded villas, past which townspeople bustled and across which the citizenry had hung its laundry out to dry. The team at Sigil will attempt to make the world of Vanguard completely seamless and continuous–that is, there will not only be no load times, but also, every single visual feature on the landscape will be a real 3D object you can reach.
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