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JCalCGM
06-20-2006, 09:39 PM
Creating an MMORPG with an all volunteer team is hard enough. Having to create it while a camera crew is following your every move would seem to add on to the challenges. However that's exactly what Damon Grow decided to do with his company Shattered Reality Interactive. He and his time are trying to make their MMORPG Kaos War under the cameras for Creating Kaos, a new web video reality series that launched its first episode on Games.net last Friday and will continue on a weekly basis.

FiringSquad got a chance to chat with Grow about both Kaos War and Creating Kaos. You can check out the interview right here (http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10791). Here is a snip:

FiringSquad: Are you afraid that showing yourself and your challenges in making this game in this way might portray you in a bad light?

Damon Grow: I guess everything in life is a double-edged sword. There will be hate, but there will also be love. I cannot hate people who spit in my face and throw tomatoes at me. You just lift your chin and keep going. Since we started people have said that we would fail, that we simply can’t do it, that it’s impossible. Well, they said the same thing to every person that changed the world. I get a lot of inspiration from the past, and no matter how many times someone kicks you down, what matters most is getting back up. We just couldn’t have asked for a better opportunity to tell gamers our story, including all of our setbacks and triumphs.
Having a reality series follow a game developer seems like a natural...maybe A&E or Bravo can think about doing something similar

Tricky Thumb
06-20-2006, 10:07 PM
He's going to change the world with his web-based reality show about a bunch of people being paid nothing to make an MMO?

Hmm, that just does not radiate "solid investment" to me.

gawaintheblind
06-20-2006, 11:33 PM
Oh quit. Its not like they got bought by EA or anything. I hope it kicks ass.

Whodaknown
06-21-2006, 09:46 AM
What an exciting reality show!! Let's get some hot footage of programmers coding away until 6am hopped up on coffee and red bull. Or better yet, waiting around for 4 hours while the game builds, only to fix one bug and do it again. Fantastical idea guys!

motor
06-21-2006, 10:51 AM
I think it will be interesting to watch it all fall apart. These guys have absolutely no idea what they are trying to do. It is hard enough to write a single-player game with a professional crew of people sitting right next to each other. There is absolutely no way that a group of non-paid amateurs spread accross the world are going to write an MMO unless it is some flash based game with 2d icons. I feel bad for this guy, but it will be interesting to see him get a real education.