Ask City of Heroes Lead Designer Jack Emmert

Posted by Zonk on Monday November 1, 2004 @10:15AM from the more-than-just-a-set-of-tights dept.

Massively Multiplayer games have grown increasingly popular in the last few years, and one of the hottest products out there today is NCSoft and Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes. City of Heroes is currently hovering around the 180,000 player population mark, with a European launch for the game coming up fast. The lead designer of the online super hero game is Jack Emmert, veteran of the video game and roleplaying game industries. He has written gaming supplements for Deadlands and All Flesh Must Be Eaten, reads several dozen comics a month, and saves the world on a regular basis. Jack has kindly agreed to answer questions from Slashdot readers about game design, massive games, and what it's like to be a superhero, so go ahead and let em' fly. One question per post, please, but as many questions as you'd like. We'll forward the best on to Jack to answer and post his responses when we've got them.

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Quick question by Buttercup · 2004-11-01 10:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Is COH just a graphical MUD, or is there something I missed? They seem to have added a lot of cool effects to the combat. Other than that, I'm not sure what this guy "designed". Seriously. Christ, they even call the monsters "mobs". What's different?

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