ArenaNet's Colin Johanson Talks Deadlines And Square Farms

I think the video is Team legacy’s March of the golems video. That was so funny haha

Everything in beta so far i’ve seen seems fine…I just want a U.I. clock….please,getting lost in Tyria is fine,at least some concept of time would be helpful XD

Part 2 is up as well now!

Jason, If you come across this Re: I want to say that I enjoy your commentary.  Mostly cause you handle an awkward and very ambiguous area in game development (much of the time) gracefully.  The area I speak of is the gap between game mechanics (gemeplay) development, and the actual process (logistically/financially) that takes place to crate the opportunity to create games that players want.

Its not easy, and lends itself to criticism to try to make projections and analysis about this.

The different areas of game development are often times handled very separately within a company, and sometimes (when theirs breakdown) competitively.  Arenanet gives us a rare opportunity to observe and analyze a company who synergizes their many different department almost flawlessly.  It is that thing about Guild Wars that feels so right that you can’t seem to describe or put your finger on.

The marketing, The art, the music, the story, the mechanics, etc are all great.  However, they all have equals of superiors in the field in any one of those categories.  But no other company focuses FIRST (and seemingly, primarily) on an overall/entire company cohesion.  If the music composition isn’t directly a result of cooperation with the art department, and vice versa… we have breakdown…   At least by Arenanet standards.

Much of what I’m saying about their creative process is speculative obviously, but it is what they claim to do, and what I, personally, think is very clearly proven by their multi-art collaboration.

I refer to the art of video game production as, “art salad”.  Its several different previously established forms of art being mixed (“tossed”) together to make one piece of work.  Similar to film but with more ingredients.  But to further observe the analogy, I call Arenanet’s Guild Wars games as, “art casserole”.  They got a set of excellent ingredients, measured them out into the preferable ratio of each, and then cooked it all together so that you can taste it all at once, and each individual flavor becomes all one thing, and inseparable, lest you compromise the casserole flavor.

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 Well i mean look at World of Warcraft when they Announced WOTLK the game got good hype, bout a year later they started losing money so they rushed and announced Cataclysm, now their deeper in the hole and their just scrambling to make their game better but what their not telling u is they cant pay their developers as much now as they used to in the past, and thats why their changing their story about MoP so much to get money from people. With Arena Net the pre-purchase couple months in advanced was expected but i mean come on, How many World Of Warcraft Players pre-purchased Guild Wars 2? How many people from Rift Pre- Purchased Guild Wars 2? Guild Wars 2 is changing the Gaming Style of MMORPG’s, The Way the market is done and quite honestly From the fact that Guild Wars 1 The Support team does One hell of a better job then World of Warcraft now and Rift. If you look at free to play games other then Guild Wars 2 youll see that 20% of them games People will spend 1 Thousand Dollars on items that turn the Tide against other players or the game itself, Guild Wars 1 and 2 have shown u can play a great game, and not have to struggle with paying to buy weapons, but work hard to get the items that u want