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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
| Bill Roper Interview @ Planet Diablo |
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PlanetDiablo have <a href="http://www.planetdiablo.com/features/articles/broper072503/" target="_blank">interviewed</a> Rill Roper on his memories of Blizzard North and what the future might bring with his new but as yet unnamed company. Here's an excerpt:
<br><blockquote><em>PlanetDiablo: What improvements, changes, and innovations are you seeking to make with your new role in the gaming industry? Bill Roper: The goal we have set for ourselves is to create another great world (the business folks like to call it a franchise) like Diablo. This isn’t saying that we are going to make the Diablo game again. What we are saying is that we want to have a full, rich, intensely fun world in which we set great games. Diablo was much more than a game as the great books from Simon and Schuster and the Dark Horse comics gave us a glance into. With our new project, we want to build a fiction and characters that will engage and compel players as well as making a game that will keep them coming back for more and more and more.</em></blockquote>Bill must be the most-interviewed ex-employee ever. Now if only someone could get Feargus Urquhart to speak out... |
Fri Jul 25, 2003 9:03 am |
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Garrett
Joined: 13 Jul 2001
Posts: 74
Location: Munich, Germany |
I mailed Faergus Urquhart (new company in Orange County) and also Brian Fargo (ex-Interplay CEO, new company InXile, purchased back Bard's Tale license from EA)...but neither have answered so far...I guess when they have something to announce, they'll do so  |
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Fri Jul 25, 2003 9:05 am |
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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
I was being a little tonge-in-cheek. Bill has been *very* verbose about leaving but his story seems pretty straight forward. I think Feargus (or Brian Fargo) might have much more interesting stories to tell...but I doubt they'll tell them.
Still, when Bard's Tale 2005 (or whatever) gets announced that should be fun. |
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Fri Jul 25, 2003 9:54 am |
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