Session Name: | Guardians of Middle-earth: Adapting MOBAs for the Console Crowd |
Speaker(s): | Evan Lewis |
Company Name(s): | Monolith |
Track / Format: | Design |
Overview: | Multiplayer online battle arenas form a popular genre that boasts millions of players around the world on the PC. Guardians of Middle-earth took this highly successful style of game and converted it into a form playable on the home console. How do you convert the controls of a mouse and keyboard to a controller? How do you grab the interest of console players new to the genre, while maintaining what the existing PC players love about the genre? |