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Lepidus  12/13/05 4:53:45 PM
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Melissa Meyer, the Producer of Hero's Journey, has answered more of our questions in the 12th installment of our interview series. She has also provided us with two exclusive screenshots of the game as that series enters its 31st week.

MMORPG.com: The world of Hero’s Journey is still a mystery to many. Can you talk about the backstory of your game, both from a fictional point of view and what logistical efforts are being put into developing it?

Melissa Meyer: Our backstory is developed by an in-house team of designers. Among them are some of the people that developed the extensive backstories for our IFE games, DragonRealms and GemStone. We have also included our Art Director – not only for her amazing capacity at developing creative fiction, but also for her power to assist us in visualizing the world of Elanthia, past and present.

Outside of a few documents, our history is mostly in notes and scribbles at the moment, but we’re slowly working to flesh those out into comprehensible written word. And now that our GameMaster team has begun to mature, we have begun to involve them in assisting us in fleshing out the details.

Our objective is to integrate the history of the world into the game and gameplay to such a degree that people will be inspired to seek it out, read it and enjoy it.

In prior interviews we explained that the world was destroyed hundreds of years ago by the ruling factions, and they are now attempting to put it back together. Beyond that, it is hard to describe in only a few paragraphs. Our history is detailed and in-depth … and discovering all the little details will be an engaging part of gameplay. A backstory of that degree would require many of it’s own Weekly Q&As to begin to unveil. 

You can read the full interview and see both new images here.
 
norriscj  12/13/05 9:13:33 PM
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I LOVED this Q & A. We finally get a small glimpse as to what the PvP will be like. To me it sounds like it will be faction based and will play a part in a larger picture.

 
pirrg  12/13/05 9:33:01 PM
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Seriously, if this game doesnt dethrone WoW in the ammount of critical acclaim and subscriptions it recieves, i will eat my own boots.

This is the game everyone has been waiting for, they just dont know it yet. It will hit the market like a sledgehammer. So any ETA on beta?

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Orcc  12/13/05 9:45:39 PM
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Ya ya, great stuff! Love that first screen, that monster is awsome!

Arremus  12/13/05 10:32:47 PM
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CAN'T! WAIT!!! Arrghhh!!!

*runs around pulling his hair out*


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Lord_Paladin  12/14/05 3:47:15 AM
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I think this is going to be the game that saves the MMO genre for me. It sounds like they're doing everything right, and that the Devs have their head on straight. Now we just have to hope that the part time GMs can come through for us and pull in their end of the bargain.

i can't wait for some sort of beta, and more screenshots! The armor on that guy in the cathedreal was beautiful!
 
pirrg  12/14/05 7:54:53 AM
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have you guys seen the e3 video of heros journey? It looks more polished and complete then 90% of all mmo's out there and its not even in beta!

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darquenblade  12/14/05 11:19:28 AM
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Yeah, this is definitely the game I have all my MMO hopes and dreams riding on =). I'm pretty much stoked about every little feature I know about this game.

Let's just hope they can pull off what they say they will. We all know how MMO's are with their promised features...=)
 
Size-Twelve  12/16/05 12:11:46 AM
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See you in Washington

Yeah I am definitely getting some positive vibes off this MMO. It's funny, the dev came right out and said, and had it translated into bold capital letters, HEROE'S JOURNEY IS NOTHING LIKE GUILD WARS. When's the last time you heard a dev ever respond with anything concrete like that this early in development? It tells me they have a vision for the game.

This could be the first EVER graphical MUD. I just have a gut feeling this one is gonna be big.

 
Maxximus  12/16/05 9:52:25 AM
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Man oh Man...

I AGREE!!!

Simu has it goin' on.
 
leemarin  12/16/05 1:56:07 PM
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This is going to be the game that finally does it right.  This game will be more like a 3D MUD IMO.
 
Anofalye  12/16/05 7:56:29 PM
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