SGWNews:07/14/06 Jake Simpson Chats with Shack News
From Stargate Worlds Wiki (SGW)
Article at StargateWorlds.com
by Khatie
From Shack News: "Cheyenne's first effort, Stargate Worlds, is still a ways off, but I had the chance to get some early details from developer Jake Simpson to see how the game is shaping up.
"Shack: There hasn't been much too information about Stargate Worlds so far. What's the game all about? "
"Jake Simpson: It's about Stargate SG1, the universe they inhabit, the bad guys, the good guys, the political situations and mostly its about really cool StarGate effects, because hey, you've never seen one of those before, have you? "(Oh, you have? What?? Where??? Rats, back to the drawing board for that then!) "Seriously, it's an MMO that contains lots and varied elements based in the Stargate Universe utilizing the rich and varied situations and characters therein. You don't get to be a 10 season Sci-Fi series without creating a pretty compelling and interesting universes along the way.
"Shack: Stargate Worlds is based on the Stargate-SG1 television series as opposed to the film, correct? What's the basic setting?
"Jake Simpson: It is based on the TV Series, not the film, although one does follow on chronologically from the other. So the basic idea is that the US Military have discovered a large ring that has a combination key on it. When the combinations are set right, it sets up a wormhole between 'our' ring and another located on another planet. Different key combinations dial up different planets. The military (most specifically the Air Force) has set up a program of small teams that explore these different planets to bring back useful technology and meet the inhabitants. "In doing so, we found that humanity was used to seed lots of these other planets by a race called the Gou'ald, who are a bunch of parasite snakey things that take over people and make them their puppets. They pretended to be the ancient gods of our planet, and still think they are gods to this day. When a person gets taken over they get deep voices and glowy eyes and other things that would make Marylin Manson dance with glee if he could get his hands on this technology. "Anyway, these are bad people and they don't like us and want to do bad things to us, like kill us all, make us slaves, eat all the Twinkies, the usual meglomanic stuff. "In the mean time, the Stargate exploration teams have also come across other races, like the Jaffa (pronounced Jaf-fa), who look like us but are bred as warriors for the Gou'ald and act as wet nurses to the parasites. "And so on. You get the idea. Lots of different locations, political situations, cool electrical guns and opportunities to do episodes where people loose their memories and spend the episode 'remembering.'"
