SGWNews:03/08/07 Escapist Interviews Joe Ybarra

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Escapist Magazine's Russ Pitts recently sat down with Joe Ybarra, Vice President of CME Product Development, to delve into the latest updates of Stargate Worlds. Joe's responses proved both insightful and revealing, detailing the team's quest to create a game that is both accurate to the Stargate universe and beautiful in design -- but, most of all, one that is downright fun!

Here's some of what Ybarra had to say:

"One of the big decision points we had to make was when [to] set the game in terms of the chronology of the TV show. And a first kind of event we took back at the beginning of the project was that we were going to start the game's storyline as the end of season 9, and the reason why we had decided it at that time was because it wasn't clear that there was going to be a season 10 of SG1.

"Well, as we got further down the road here in defining the season for our game, they decided to go ahead and re-up for season 10, and that sort of put a kibosh on the story on that front. So we started to go in a different direction."

Joe also reveals the hopeful target date for the MMO -- early 2008 -- and discusses some finer points of curiosity brewing with the game, such as the use of zat guns.

Joe Ybarra Interview: Part One

Joe Ybarra Interview: Part Two

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