Hamma
2002-12-22, 12:00 PM
HomeLAN (http://www.homelanfed.com/) has up their monthly Planetside Q&A,this month with Dave Kuykendall, an associate game designer on PS: HomeLAN - What are some of the challenges you have having to deal with in your job?
Dave Kuykendall - The SIZE of everything. These continents are BIG. Even the outdoor environments for Everquest were not of this size. Micromanaging and hand placing every item, as I had done in the past with other games, was simply not possible for PlanetSide. We had to invent tools and techniques as we went along. Nothing was done in the usual mannerClick here (http://www.homelanfed.com/index.php?id=11020) to read the full article.
Dave Kuykendall - The SIZE of everything. These continents are BIG. Even the outdoor environments for Everquest were not of this size. Micromanaging and hand placing every item, as I had done in the past with other games, was simply not possible for PlanetSide. We had to invent tools and techniques as we went along. Nothing was done in the usual mannerClick here (http://www.homelanfed.com/index.php?id=11020) to read the full article.