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MMORPG.com News Manager Keith Cross caught up with Lee Hammock, the Lead Designer from the upcoming post-apocalyptic MMORPG, Fallen Earth and asked one simple question: What's new in Fallen Earth since the Austin Game Developer's Conference?

While at the Game Developers Conference I had the opportunity to chat with Lee Hammock, Lead Designer for Fallen Earth. My first look at Fallen Earth was at the Austin Game Developers Conference, where Lee gave me the beginner’s tour. Before that, all I knew of Fallen Earth was that it was a post apocalyptic MMO built on the topography of the Grand Canyon. I said in a blog last week that it was great talking to Lee because he’ll answer your questions before you ask them. At the GDC in San Francisco my first, and pretty much only question was, “What’s new since AGDC?”

Lee told me that 75% of the game’s content is in, though much of it still needs polish. So far they have between three and four thousand missions ready to go. These missions will take players beyond the desert terrains that we’ve already seen in Fallen Earth, and move them on to greener pastures, and I literally mean greener pastures. At the Fallen Earth booth they had a demo of the game running, and a trailer running on a loop on another screen. In the demo, Lee took me to a grassy field that stretched far off into the distance.

Read it all here.

Good info.

Shows they are comming along rather fine for a small company.

Oh but next time? Ask more questions, and don't quit until you have 10 pages of screenshots and tidbits from Lee! I know Lee wouldn't mind help you with that

still hopefull that they will have a raw and believeable  aftermath game  that doesnt reduce the gameplay to a boring processed  killing/level arena.

unless they’re armed with the finest weapons of the post-apocalyptic era, such as the mighty hockey stick

I just about fell of my chair laughing at that one.

heh, i hear about games that sound so awsome early in development, and then closer to release it sounds blander and simpler due to the release of the "fine print" ...... FE on the other hand .... theres no fine print, and the content is the same as the last q/a 10 months ago, wich is great. It means they are staying on track, and i have a feeling this game will be great.

"On the horizon I could see the distinct form of an old roller coaster track rising and falling in the distance. It looked like it could be a functioning roller coaster but I was assured it wasn’t, because really, who would run a roller coaster in a plague-ravaged nuclear wasteland?"

I would.

Step right up, folks!! Bring some fun into your dreary existence with this great blast from the past!!! Ride tickets are only 3 parts each!! Bring me your plant parts, computer parts, auto parts, body parts, all parts welcome!! Come ride the Apoco-coaster!!!!

Fallen Earth, Earthrise, and Champions online are the 3 MMO I look forward to most.

Hopefully at least one of these will produce the goods.

Still waiting . . . .

It all sounds great.  It always did.  Icarus looks to be a very capable developer, and I am looking forward to Fallen Earth, even after the very long development of the game.  I just hope we see it before the end of the year.

This game sounds like it has real potential, though the long, long LONG development time is a tad discouraging.

Am I correct in assuming this will be a subscription-based MMO?

One of the things that has impressed me about this game (after looking through the game's website) is the depth and creativity of the lore that they have created. It all sounds plausible and fun, and all six of the factions sound distinct, well-thought-out, and intriguing. I'd love to be writing for a game like this -- and there are not many games I can say that about.

I have definitely added this MMO to my "watch list."

I am glad now there are several sci-fi themed MMORPGs in the world. Between this, Earthrise, Stargate Worlds, and jumpgate revolution, there must be one that will be good.