Session Name: | All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Conquest Endgames in MMOs |
Speaker(s): | Matthew Woodward |
Company Name(s): | CCP Games |
Track / Format: | Design |
Overview: | EVE ONLINE designer Matt Woodward discusses the advantages and pitfalls of territorial control systems in MMOs. Matt outlines the reasons you should consider territory control as a compelling part of your game, and then takes a detailed look at the key challenges of such systems. The lecture draws on insights gleaned from EVE, but presents them in an abstracted manner for a generalist audience a brief primer on EVE's implementation is given to add context, but the concepts stand on their own. |