NetDevil’s Brown On Balancing Difficult MMO Design

NetDevil’s Jumpgate: Evolution is a fairly ambitious action-based MMO title in the hands of only a 13-person team. The market is challenging enough — even big chancers like Age of Conan and Warhammer Online are closing servers, and the audience is becoming increasingly picky and jaded. It has to be a worrisome space to be entering.

NetDevil president Scott Brown for a demo of the title, and discussed the team’s design processes, the need for accessibility and solo play, its attitude towards player-vs-player play, and the necessity of a beta process as a proving ground for the game’s core ideas.