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A look into Blackstar's PvP design process

by Kyle Horner Mar 9th 2008 at 5:00PM

Filed under: Game mechanics, PvP, News items, Blackstar

If you've ever been the type of person that loves getting a glimpse into how things are put together or created, then let us point you to an interesting write-up over at the official Spacetime Studios website. For those of you who don't feel like reading through the text, which happens to be laden with lots of boring technical terms -- like data-probes and statistics review meetings -- then let us simply tell you that mountains of iteration goes into making PvP fun in our beloved massively multiplayer online games.

Although if you're in any way familiar with game design you know that iteration is incredibly common, but with designing a system where players fight other players there comes the iteration of live play-testing -- something that Spacetime Studios did with NCsoft. So in the future if you're playing some particularly terrible PvP section of a massively game, you can probably chalk it up to a severe lack of play-testing.

Tags: blackstar, data-mining, ncsoft, pvp, spacetime-studios, statistics, statistics-review-meetings

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3-09-2008 @ 5:53PM

Anonymous said...

The "Production Art" version of this blog is up... IMO it's more interesting, cooler pics and all :D

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