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Post by teigvondor on May 28, 2003 10:55:03 GMT -5
His name was Designer Dragon anyone remember anything about him?
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Post by Marc Trueshaft on May 28, 2003 11:23:36 GMT -5
Sure.DD was ther lead man on UO when it first came out.
He currently is the lead Dev on Star Wars Galaxies,although there I think his handle is Holocron.
he was one of the more vocal members of the dev team,and he's always had interesting things to say about developing MMOGS.He was actually pretty honest about the mistakes they made about the game(UO) way back then.
I don't think it's there any more,but when he was with UO,he had a designer marble house surrounded by pillars just a few screens south of Shame entrance(on Cats).I think the sign on it used to read "property of DD".
BTW his real name is Raph Koster
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Post by Kragen on May 28, 2003 11:24:29 GMT -5
As I remember he was one of the original Dev guys for UO. I'm not sure if it was actually Ralph Koster or not (I beleive that was the lead programmers name when UO first came out).
I believe he may have left UO before Richard Garriot left OSI to go work on SWG. He is their Creative Director.
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Post by OldTer on May 28, 2003 12:57:09 GMT -5
Wasn't DD one of those that if he had his way in early UO every shard would of been similiar to something like Siege.
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Post by grimblade on May 28, 2003 16:52:53 GMT -5
Yes to everything said. I remember his little bro was a vocal half-twink on the aol boards 5 years ago
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Post by Marc Trueshaft on May 29, 2003 5:23:07 GMT -5
Yeah i think he left before Garriot.It was said he had been working on Privateer online for Origin,but the genius's at EA killed that idea(That's when they bought Westwood Studios and decided to go with EQ in space--err,I mean Earth and Beyond instead.Then he left along with others associated with the project.
He joined up with Verant Austin soon after along with a bunch of other ex UO devs and began work on Star Wars Galaxies.
And of course EA did to Westwood what they did to Origin.They pretty much gutted the company and kept the Earth and Beyond guys around to maintain that game.
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