Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia recaps worldbuilding and MMO-inspired social systems

A Theory of the MMO

Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco during GDC last weekLike many of you reading this I was in San Francisco last week, sprinting back and forth between hotel lobbies for 1-on-1 chats with game devs. In conversations throughout the week, a few topics kept coming up repeatedly: ongoing layoffs, the dour mood of GDC compared to years past, and the sorry state of the AAA side of the games business, in particular. But then another theme kept emergi…

Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia recaps worldbuilding and MMO-inspired social systems

Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia is back with another development blog this week, this time recapping the last month of effort over at indie studio Qloud Games. A large chunk of the post is devoted to worldbuilding. “[A]las, it’s impossible to build a floating island in a day,” Qloud writes. “There is still a lot of […]