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Voodoo Extreme - How did you come up with the idea for Midgard?

Ragnar Tornquist - I think we'd been bouncing the idea around for quite a while -- mostly as a joke, actually, as in "wouldn´t it be cool if we did a game based on Norse mythology, seeing as we are Norwegian?". But the concept didn´t gel until we got into a dialogue about what to do after Anarchy Online. That´s when we sat down, thought about it, and figured, "you know, it *would* be cool to do a game based on Norse mythology!". So we did. From the outset, however, we´d decided that this wasn´t going to be a hack-and-slash fantasy game. Instead, we wanted to focus on the more social, political, and strategic aspects of the game-play. And we wanted to ground it in history and historical mythology. This is why we chose to make Midgard: to give people a new kind of online experience, and to do this in a really unique and interesting setting.