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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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.