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Archived News for February 12, 2001



Horizons Development Halts: Addiction to Card Game Blamed February 12, 2001
By: Mystery  
No, not really. But, veteran Magic: The Gathering artist Christopher Rush has joined the ranks of AE's team, and has even posted some new concept art to the official web site.


Sovereign While you Wait... February 12, 2001
By: Mystery  
...just listed to the beautiful music. The Soule Brothers, composers for games like Icewind Dale and the like, are credited for the music for the upcoming Verant title Sovereign. Gamespy sat down with them in an interview about gaming music in general. You can check it out here.


Ultima WO: Origin New Team Comments February 12, 2001
By: Mystery  
There's been a new Team Comments from the UWO: Origin team posted on the official web site. This time around, Peter Freese, Graphics Programmer for Origin, talks about what makes a MMORPG successful.


PlanetSide New Producer's Letter February 12, 2001
By: Mystery  
Kevin McCann had some new things to say in his Letter from the Producer over on the Planetside official website.


Asheron's Call Sean Huxter Interview February 12, 2001
By: Mystery  
Sean Huster, 3d Artist for Turbine Games, stopped over at Game Spy last week to give an interview for their Art of Gaming series of articles. Here's a sample of what he had to say:

It all begins with meetings with the content team, and the designers propose quests and feature changes, and we kick the ideas around. We all contribute, and we end up with an art task list that is needed for the month. I then look at it, estimate the time I can steal from the other artists, and if I can get some of their time we try to do more than if I have to do it all myself. Then I write up the task list and we get going. We sketch up concepts for new weapons, creatures, whatever. Then we run those by the design team, and work begins once they approve the sketches.

You can read the rest of the interview here.



NeverWinter Nights New Biofiles February 12, 2001
By: Mystery  
In another of the great articles from GA RPG, this issue of the Biofiles is a continuation from last week: "What did we do wrong in Baldur's Gate 2". Once again, some great information can be had here for the budding NWN Dungeon Master.


Atriarch Determine the Orbit February 12, 2001
By: Mystery  
In one of those "Community Building" moves, the devs over at World Fusion (team Atriarch) have created a new contest, and denoted the APDT Website official depository of contest entries.

The contest is to determine the orbits of Atriarch's 3 moons. Now, I know many of you are jumping at the chance of entering out of the sheer joy of using math, but let me warn you: we're dealing with UNreality here, folks.

I can understand the interesting game effects you might have when certain spectral things happen, but really folks: working out the physics to determine accurate orbits for 3 moons, and then incorporating that into the game is just a lot of CPU cycles for what will essentially be visual fluff for the average player.