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News Discussion  » Fallen Earth: Interview and Screenshot

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  Dana

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Joined: 1/07/04
Posts: 2425

 
10/21/05 3:59:25 PM#1

James Hettinger, the CEO of Icarus Studios, took some time recently to answer a few of our questions about their upcoming post-apocolyptic MMORPG Fallen Earth. He also was kind enough to provide us with a rare screenshot of the game.

MMORPG.com: Budgets have soared in recent years as mega-productions have taken the MMO market by storm. How do you, as a small company, keep up and compete?

James Hettinger: We were blessed from the start with a small, really brilliant group of developers. They allowed us to stay lean and grow slowly as the game has grown. Our business model has always been based on the assumption that a small, highly focused team working in unison is a great way to create an exceptional product.

Since we haven’t had a huge budget we have had to be smart in how we spend our money. First and foremost, we aren’t based in California so that cuts our costs in half. We don’t have flashy offices and we don’t have three layers of management. We have hired people only when they were needed for the project and we have scaled up over time.

We have spent a majority of our time on infrastructure and tools to allow us to create content quickly which makes us more efficient. In the end it comes down to doing more with less. I can tell you that I have heard from a number of industry people that they have seen games with 4 – 5 times our budget that aren’t as far along as ours is.

You can read more here.

Dana Massey
Formerly of MMORPG.com
Currently Lead Designer for Bit Trap Studios

  Garrik

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Joined: 12/30/04
Posts: 927

10/21/05 6:14:32 PM#2

All i can say is this game has the Extreme potential to be one of the greats, lets hope that Icarus are the first company to truely get it right, the ball is in there court, so all i can say is Goodluck with Fallen Earth guys, make the gamers dream come true ::::01::.

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  PANDEMIC

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Joined: 3/23/04
Posts: 29

10/21/05 7:50:44 PM#3

Looks like it's going to be interesting. Sounds a lot like Neocron to me. Hopefully they take a long hard look at Reakktor's mistakes and learn some lessons from it.

  pirrg

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Joined: 11/20/04
Posts: 1479

10/21/05 9:53:55 PM#4

I truly believe this game will catch the mmo community off guard and take it by storm. One of these days, they are going to start the most polished beta mmorpg gaming has ever seen, which will hype the game to epic proportions a'la world of warcraft.

At least thats my theory.

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  wolph

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Joined: 1/29/04
Posts: 45

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10/21/05 10:18:35 PM#5

Sounds great! I can't wait for this game.

*Holds breath*

  Rabiator

Apprentice Member

Joined: 10/22/05
Posts: 345

10/22/05 12:03:43 PM#6


Originally posted by PANDEMIC
Looks like it's going to be interesting. Sounds a lot like Neocron to me. Hopefully they take a long hard look at Reakktor's mistakes and learn some lessons from it.

Damn right. Neocron was groundbreaking in its concept and could be much bigger if the code quality was better. Actually, I think Neocron could still recover if Reakktor would fix a few things. The most important being the laggy netcode, followed by a few long promised but still unavailable features.

This said, I think Icarus Studios have a good chance of filling that market niche. Unless Twilight War beats them to it. Tabula Rasa might also absorb a few of the sci-fi MMORPG fans, so the competition will definitely increase. For Reakktor, I am icreasingly pessimistic ::::39::

  Stedfast

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Joined: 7/03/05
Posts: 101

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10/23/05 11:08:25 AM#7
 Sounds like the game is moving along nicely. I am looking forward to playing it, more so than the other games like Twightlight War, though it has possibilities also lol. Can hardly wait for the release.
  Razorback

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Joined: 3/05/04
Posts: 5266

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10/25/05 8:26:28 PM#8

Lots of the same claims and promises we have been hearing for years...

I hope they manage to pull it all off... it will certainly get my monthly $$ if it plays as good as it sounds.

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  Sveltine

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Joined: 10/12/05
Posts: 4

10/28/05 2:39:37 AM#9

I'm way looking for a sci-fi game that doesn't blow. This one has me very interested so I hope it totally kicks!

  Cradok

Apprentice Member

Joined: 10/26/05
Posts: 11

10/28/05 11:15:36 AM#10

I hafta say this is the first one in a long while that sounds even remotely like a 'decent' game.  Bring it on!

 

 

  DirtySteve

Apprentice Member

Joined: 7/17/05
Posts: 88

10/28/05 11:54:35 AM#11

I have been watching this game for a while and I am pleased every time they release information about it.

You can have your "Auto Assault' and stick it in Nuclear fallout! This game looks like the Post Apocolypse game I have been waiting for.

  LordDrayko

Novice Member

Joined: 6/06/05
Posts: 4

I've never said anything worth quoting.

11/01/05 6:25:19 PM#12
This game definetly has potential. I've been reading on it today some and I must say i'm very optimistic. Good luck guys!

Drayko

  FILAMENT

Novice Member

Joined: 2/22/05
Posts: 32

11/28/05 7:11:19 PM#13

One good programmer it worth 10 programmers that have the right friends to get a job programming video games.

I have high hopes.


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  Emilin

Novice Member

Joined: 7/21/04
Posts: 94

6/08/07 4:02:16 AM#14
Originally posted by FILAMENT

One good programmer it worth 10 programmers that have the right friends to get a job programming video games.

I have high hopes.


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  Naazir

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Joined: 2/23/06
Posts: 90

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6/08/07 8:42:47 AM#15
That was a REAL cheesey way of getting people to read about this new game. I click the link to read something about the latest patch in Warcraft, only to have this interview thrown at me. I wouldn't have bothered saying anything here since it's probably just a coding issue on MMORPG's part, but then I thought.... "screw that. If I don't say anything, who will?" Then I thought... "why hide my pissy-ness at this blatant attempt to push a game on uninterested people?" 


Just kiddin really, but you should fix the link. On the 1-10 Features that auto-scroll on the top of the main page, I clicked the 1st one (World of Warcraft: The Black Temple Patch) and was sent here. So uhh... how do I get to the Warcraft one anyway? 


-Naaz.
  Tonaraz

Novice Member

Joined: 8/21/06
Posts: 54

6/08/07 11:55:38 AM#16
Originally posted by Naazir
That was a REAL cheesey way of getting people to read about this new game. I click the link to read something about the latest patch in Warcraft, only to have this interview thrown at me. I wouldn't have bothered saying anything here since it's probably just a coding issue on MMORPG's part, but then I thought.... "screw that. If I don't say anything, who will?" Then I thought... "why hide my pissy-ness at this blatant attempt to push a game on uninterested people?" 


Just kiddin really, but you should fix the link. On the 1-10 Features that auto-scroll on the top of the main page, I clicked the 1st one (World of Warcraft: The Black Temple Patch) and was sent here. So uhh... how do I get to the Warcraft one anyway? 


-Naaz.
Ya i also got here from the warcraft black temple patch sceenshot. But good article
  User Deleted
6/08/07 12:03:05 PM#17
Some of the images are incorectly linked.
  Moren

Novice Member

Joined: 3/13/04
Posts: 7

6/09/07 5:06:49 AM#18

similar to you i've too clicked link to article about new WoW patch and bah something else appeared

PS. Mrbloodworth it was text i've clicked not image, so i don't know who have screwed this

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  EZero

Novice Member

Joined: 4/28/04
Posts: 1

6/11/07 1:23:49 AM#19
Well apparently in order to find the correct link to the Black Temple patch article, you need the browsing skill equivalent to black temple raiding!

lol jk but here's the actual link, had to jump through a few hoops to find it but IT EXISTS!

www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/setview/features/loadFeature/1270/gameID/15
  Naazir

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Joined: 2/23/06
Posts: 90

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

6/11/07 10:32:22 AM#20
Originally posted by EZero
Well apparently in order to find the correct link to the Black Temple patch article, you need the browsing skill equivalent to black temple raiding!

lol jk but here's the actual link, had to jump through a few hoops to find it but IT EXISTS!

www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/setview/features/loadFeature/1270/gameID/15
ugh... Thanks SOOO much for posting that link!  :)


-Naaz.