SGWNews:09/18/06 MMORPG Chats with Zeb Cook
From Stargate Worlds Wiki (SGW)
Article at StargateWorlds.com
by Khatie
At the Austin Game Conference this year, Zeb Cook, Lead Systems Designer at Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment sat down for a chat with Dana "Lepidus" Massey of MMORPG.
From MMORPG.com: "Often, we hear horror stories of companies being bound by restrictive, non-gaming licenses. Stargate is no such beast, says Cook.
MGM has been a dream to work with. "As per the license, they're trying to capture the cheerful tone of the show and never take themselves too seriously.
The fiction of Stargate is often playful; expect the game to be too. "Their license also solves a few big MMORPG problems for them.
Stargates provide the perfect travel solution and suggest basic world architecture not unlike what most MMORPGs already do.
There will be some travel and likely no mountable objects - he doesn't foresee people driving motorcycles through stargates - but the very existence of the stargates allows players to jump from one area to another rather quickly.
The show also had things like teleport rings to further ease travel."
