Cinco Barnes' Letter to the Community
Star Wars Galaxies:Jump to Lightspeed lead designer Cinco Barnes' posted his Letter to the Community. In the letter he talks about his job as Lead Designer of the new expansion as well as his past work with the game before moving to the expansion dev team.
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06/15/2004
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Hi there! I'm Cinco Barnes, the Lead Designer of "Jump to Lightspeed."
Several years ago I joined the Star Wars Galaxies team as the Lead World-Builder. But over the course of development, my role changed significantly. I started out with a very small team that focused on making maps and quests. As the project picked up steam, I became Galaxies' Lead Designer with a much larger team to mobilize and lots more to worry about.
So you know -- after a game like Galaxies is launched, the Lead Designer's day-to-day job involves gathering info and opinions, formulating creative solutions, making gameplay decisions, choosing task priorities and providing support for the Design team. This similar to what I had done before at other companies (like 3DO, Kinesoft, Bootprint, and Origin Systems), but never with so many designers to manage, and never approaching Galaxies' scale.
Fortunately, the SOE design team is comprised of the most talented folks I could've hoped for. And with all the challenge and hardship, the looming deadlines, and everything else that comes with building the biggest, broadest MMORPG conceived to-date, it was still the most fun I've ever had!
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