I swear, way too many unexpected things happened today and it was by far the worst day to stop posting. There’s enough material for what I usually write in a whole week. Restraining from writing has NEVER been so hard.<\/p>\n
But, come on. At least this: Jeff Freeman works at Spacetime Studios. It’s sort of confirmed.<\/p>\n
It was the very first thing I thought as he linked<\/a> the lead designer blog, that by the way has a GREAT piece<\/a> on server architecture that ties back to all I wrote about server travel<\/a>, even recently with the “grid” idea for Fallout, communities and the TRUE impact those choices have. With a wonderful conclusion:<\/p>\n My point is to make it clear to other designers that the fundamental server architecture has an impact on the game in a very real, money-in-the-pocket, subscribers-on-the-line kind of way<\/u>. Most architecture decisions are driven by cost-benefit analysis: what the programmers can do, how much money and time it will take for them to do it, etc. These are important considerations, but considerations generally made without much a consideration of game design. Game designers may accept the programmer recommended path without considering all the implications that structure has for their game.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That is SO true. Glad that at least someone is looking at it from the right perspective. FINALLY.<\/p>\n Anyway, I had this suspect that also Jeff Freeman worked there (or it would be hard to explain how he knew about this new blog), then I noticed that this guy lists Jeff Freeman under “Spacetime Dev Blogs” (listing Lietgardis as well, but I knew that already). Ehehehe……. OWN3D!<\/p>\n So. Senior designer. And, if I’m not wrong, “Lead System Designer”?<\/p>\n Good luck and everything. You seem to have a good team there ;)<\/p>\n