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GDC 2012: Bigpoint discusses the Game of Thrones MMO

Joystiq:
It had to be said. And for fans of George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, that one little phrase elicits some powerful and mixed emotions: excitement (to actually wander about Westeros) and dread (will it actually be Westeros?). There was even a collective cringe among some Massively staff when the announcement was made that Game of Thrones was becoming an MMORPG. Could such a complex world translate well into the virtual realm? It made the transition to television pretty well in HBO's series, but a free-to-play browser-based MMO is a whole other beast.

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Bigpoint: 'If you're in free-to-play you should be targeting China'

CEO Khaled Helioui discusses why spending time to designing your game for the Chinese market may be worthwhile.

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All Games Developed By Bigpoint Are Now Available For MAC

With Drakensang Online, Bigpoint features excellent graphics and gameplay in 20 languages on Macintosh – sure good news for all Apple and MMORPG fans who still enjoy a quite limited offer of online games for their platform

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Craig Scott New Lead Designer at Bigpoint

Scott joined the games’ industry back in 2001 as a designer at former Climax Studios.
After just one year as a senior designer at Core Design, he decided to work on Realtime Worlds. He stayed there more than four years.

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