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EVE Evolved: The making of EVE Online

by Brendan Drain Oct 5th 2008 at 3:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Expansions, Game mechanics, Launches, MMO industry, EVE Evolved

EVE Online's development path from concept to release has followed a very different path to the MMO norm. Starting from its humble beginnings as one man's dream to build an online space game, EVE has developed into the massively popular game it is today. Rather than designing and developing the game all in one go, the CCP crew opted for a staged delivery approach. The game was re-made 11 times, each stage being progressively closer to the final goal. By launch, EVE had been through 5 total recodes where almost the entire game was scrapped and rebuilt from scratch and at least 6 partial recodes.

Join me as I take a look at the course EVE's development has taken from concept all the way to the current Empyrean Age expansion.

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EVE Evolved: The making of EVE Online, part 2

by Brendan Drain Oct 5th 2008 at 3:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Expansions, Game mechanics, MMO industry, EVE Evolved

Tags: castor, ccp, cold war, ColdWar, concord, empyrean-age, eve, eve-online, exodus, expansion, factional-warfare, gank, hilmar, joystiqfeatures, launch, patch, red moon rising, RedMoonRising, revelations, rmr, second genesis, SecondGenesis, server, suicide, trinity

Trinity to be released first week of December

by Mike Schramm Nov 5th 2007 at 7:40PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Culture, Expansions, MMO industry, Patches

We got an official release date for EVE Online's next expansion, Trinity, at the FanFest over the weekend. If you're an EVE player, make sure to leave the first week of December open, because that's when you'll be playing with all the cool new ships and updates in Trinity. Of course, the fun starts tomorrow, when Revelations.2.3 arrives, but in just a month from now, we'll have access to Trinity (the new name of what used to be Revelations 3).

GamesIndustry also has an interview up with CCP CEO Hilmar Petursson, who tells them that the old graphic engine isn't actually going anywhere-- players will be able to switch from old to new via the configuration screen ingame. There's also a new ingame concurrency record-- it's a whopping 37,200 players all in one game (I think all of them were in Jita yesterday afternoon, because it was horrible there). Petursson also gives feedback on CCP's decision to hire a real-life economist to help them with the player-driven economy-- apparently "he's validated some of our assumptions, but he's also shattered a lot too." Man, I'd love to sit in on a few of those meetings.

Mark your calendars: Trinity is coming the first week of December. And unless you change that setting, EVE will never look the same.

Tags: ccp, concurrency, economist, eve-online, eve-trinity, hilmar-petursson, interview, revelations, trinity