Continuing what is turning out to be a busy news week for me...
I have been signed to write for Sword of the New World, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game coming soon. The game is already hugely popular in its native Korea under its original name, Granado Espada.
It's got lush baroque- meets- fantasy visuals, as players build dynasties in the exploration of a strange and unknown world. One of the features that's been written a lot about is that the player can run three PCs through the game simultaneously. That's somewhat familiar to Knights of the Old Republic players in that it gives you the ability to level up multiple characters evenly. In Sword, however, all three characters are PCs fully run by the player — which is something of a new thing for the genre.
I've done video game work before, but I'm a role-player from waaaay back. Heck, I was the president of the Dungeons & Dragons club in eighth grade, before the church group had us shut down. (Yeah, it was that long ago!) So writing adventures is old hat for me — and I'm already working with the team bringing the game over.
I won't be able to provide any specifics about the game beyond that... but check out the official website for updates!
Again, this will not negatively impact my comics-writing plans — as I'll talk about on Saturday, it'll be quite a plus in that department...