Jake Rodgers, the Art Director at
Spacetime Studios, which is working on
an unnamed space MMO for NCsoft, has an intriguing dev blog up about his trip to China and
the process of outsourcing MMO creation over there. The writeup starts out like a travelogue, with anecdotes about how much
Shanghai looks like Blade Runner, and how his team couldn't even order food with just English, but later he gets into the nitty gritty of using Chinese artists and companies to help make a massively multiplayer online videogame.
Definitely a great read, and some of the pictures he's got up look terrific as well. Unfortunately, it tells us nothing about the game they're working on itself (
the concept art is called "[Lonestar]" so do with that what you will), but it's interesting to hear the perspective of someone coordinating high level game development in a global marketplace.
[Via
GSW]
