Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer

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The Extinction of the MMORPG

A few nights ago, I was playing Wildstar with my committed leveling buddy. We had just arrived at Malgrave, the zone where players on the Exile side spend their last ten levels. After collecting twenty cacti from sun-scorched dunes and reducing a species of space bears to nigh-extinction, I couldn’t help but make a offhand remark. “Man, this feels a lot like World of Warcraft.” This...

Random Thoughts: November 29th

With each and every day I slowly draw closer to completing the world construction phase for Unearthed. The next post I make will likely showcase the penultimate area of the final dungeon, after which we’ll be entering a bit of a gray area of development. I’ll be putting together a “state of the union” address for sometime next week, where I will outline the next stages of...

Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer