The creator of SpiderWeb Software and games like Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Jeff is living the life many of us wish we could. His making games for a living and he does it for his own company. I mean, who of us did not think at some point in time, that if we only had the opportunity we could make the greatest game of all time with all the ideas in our heads.
Well the world is divided between those who do and don’t and guess which ones matter at the end of the day.
With the question being a rhetorical one let’s move on to our interview with Mr. Vogel and find out why Avadon will not be an MMO and more.
RyJek: Hi, and thanks for taking some time for us. Let’s start off with – how did the story of you making games begin? When did SpiderWeb Software come into the picture?
Jeff Vogel: I’ve been obsessed with role-playing games of all sorts since I was in 4th grade. I spent much of my youth coding increasingly complex (but still all lame) RPGs in BASIC.
I wrote my first game for realz was in graduate school, studying applied mathematics, and I was slowly going insane. I decided to take a summer off and write an RPG on my new Mac, a game that turned out to be Exile: Escape From the Pit. I registered Spiderweb Software with the state, released the game as shareware and, oddly, people bought it. I quit grad school almost instantly...
It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.
The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.
Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."
1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.
If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).
Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.
Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.
@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.
I approve of this god damn message.
Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.
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Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.
There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.
Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.
Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.
This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.
Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One
