Wow that is totally awesome guys!!!!
We are in the top 100 in the world. That is a truly amazing accomplishement.
Really could anyone here imagine it? Top 100.
okay so for what are we doing in Korea. This is to be considered confidential and not released to the public, just for you SETI guys...
I am leading a all Korean team plus one American - Nate Simpson from CA to create a new massively multiplayer game based on the kung-fu literature of China. This is a huge body of fiction going back a thousand years and lead in the modern era by Louis Cha.
If you take a look at my website
www.erikbethke.com you will find some book reviews there. Take a look at the Deer and the Cauldron.
It is great working here in Korea, the atmosphere is differently paced, weather interesting and the people are cool.
The three areas of principle focus for our new game are:
Robust dynamic gameplay systems to reduce the reliance on static content
Very deep service
Advanced utilization of social network graphs for extremely neat tricks to have the server aware of the players' experience and adjust the gameplay on the fly to make it more of a partyl!
also as we said earlier B9 is on hold - more practically we and MJ have decided that we need some space. I will leave it at that for now...
Awesome guys!
-Erik