ZOMG A Clue!

Posted on March 6, 2006 by Scott Jennings| 60 Comments

Greetings from Austin!

I expect it will be quite some time before I can talk about anything I’m working on. So expect to continue the same content-free bloggery as always!

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  • Vasion

    Fix L2 for me, please?

  • http://hgamer.blogspot.com Heartless Gamer

    Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.

  • winter

    Once you’re done with L2 please kill Jack Emmert and fix CoH.

  • http://hgamer.blogspot.com Heartless Gamer

    And the question is whats in the top half of the picture thats been removed -_o

  • Nicademus

    Dude… doesn’t NCSOFT own the rights to Fallout????

    If you FIX MY DEATHCLAWS DAMMIT!!!!!!!!

  • scottj

    > And the question is whats in the top half of the picture thats been removed

    The guy who I share an office with, who may not be enthused about the Internet triangulating coordinates to find him.

  • Erkht

    Welcome to the City of Bagels!

    Meanwhile, in a darkened room deep in the bowels of NCSoft’s Lair, Lum and the brothers Garriott plot the takeover of UO.. Their goal: to finally create UO3D via outsourcing to Vulcan, why? Only the Vulcans have a hope of finding logic in building a top-down world in true 3D..

    Whatever, congrads Lum!!!

  • http://www.gamingtrend.com Jason Ballew

    Congrats, Scott. Hope NCSoft is good to you. :)

  • Murgos

    So, I guess this is sort of like a blank slate for you?

  • MissFruityPie

    The bagel has landed. Congratulations!

  • scottj

    > So, I guess this is sort of like a blank slate for you?

    Hah hah… no, I’m REALLY on a blank slate, I’m not on any currently announced or even rumored project.

  • Kaalinn

    Omg! And John Romero said he’s working on a MMO too!
    It’s a conspiracy by NC to create the only other game that will remain after Spore is released!

  • http://studio.fiercekitten.com/ Georgia

    Grats scotticus :) You bastage! You didn’t even tell me you left town yet :( Mo and I wanted to take you guys out for dinner.

  • Wayabvpar

    Glad you survived the trip! Looking forward to hearing what you are working on when A) you find out, and B) you can tell us without killing us.

  • http://www.jenncutter.com/ Jenn

    I knew I should’ve joined the pool when I had the chance. A winner is me… but probably you. I hope they treat you well and congrats :)

  • http://www.purplebloggingray.com/ Technogeek

    > Dude\’e2\’80\’a6 doesn\’e2\’80\’99t NCSOFT own the rights to Fallout????

    > If you FIX MY DEATHCLAWS DAMMIT!!!!!!!!

    No, that’s Bethesda.

  • Freakazoid

    Part of me kinda hoped you’d work at Wolfpack. Even though I didn’t play shadowbane, a shadowbane 2 under your guidance would’ve been awesome.

    Enjoy working on whatever this blank slate will be. Who knows? Maybe they’ll make you lead designer of CoH or even L2 and you can fix them for great justice!

  • Staarkhand

    My initial reaction is to not equate ‘lead designer for flagship title’ with ‘shares a cube’. Am I just that out of touch with the realities of the game design business?

    I know a lot of people thought Mark Jacobs worked for you, doubtlessly resulting in your receiving a disproportionate amount of hate mail from nerfed zerkers. Just want to avoid that misconception following you to this job.

  • http://ve3d.ign.com/ Apache

    Maybe it’s with Lord British :)

  • Soulflame

    I eagerly await Dear Leader Online!

  • scottj

    > My initial reaction is to not equate \’e2\’80\’98lead designer for flagship title\’e2\’80\’99
    > with \’e2\’80\’99shares a cube\’e2\’80\’99.

    Office, not cube. Snif.

  • Merusk

    OOh NcSoft. Nice dismount, but will you stick the landing?

  • http://hgamer.blogspot.com Heartless Gamer

    I hear cubes are the new office. Kind of like pink is the new purple.

  • http://www.plaguelands.com krones

    > The bagel has landed. Congratulations!

    Classic.

  • scarshapedstar

    I was hoping for CCP. EVE blows everything I’ve played out of the water.

    With the possible exception, of course, of pre-Trammel UO, praise-and-blessings-be-upon-its-name.

  • http://www.guilddissonance.com Hawken

    Congrats Scott, wishing you and your family the best.

  • http://ve3d.ign.com/ Apache

    I dont think lum would move to iceland :p

  • http://www.corpnews.com 3 Stacked Midgets

    Toss a harpoon at Garriot for the team!

  • http://www.wtfno.org Jiffy

    The circle is now complete. What has started with Garriott, has now ended with him. ^^

  • Formica

    > I eagerly await Dear Leader Online!

    When does beta signup start?

  • scarshapedstar

    “I dont think lum would move to iceland :p”

    But he’s… mad!

  • Gil Avalon

    Woot! How about a 3D UO set in da future with pre Trammel ruleset?

  • RedWick

    Those boxes on the name plate…they look almost like….

    No, it couldn’t be…

    Q-Bert Online…?

    The mind boggles at the implications!

  • http://www.damnedvulpine.com/ J.
  • scarshapedstar

    “Woot! How about a 3D UO set in da future with pre Trammel ruleset?”

    *cough* EVE *cough* :)

  • http://blog.psychochild.org/ Psychochild

    Staarkhand wrote:
    My initial reaction is to not equate \’e2\’80\’98lead designer for flagship title\’e2\’80\’99 with \’e2\’80\’99shares a cube\’e2\’80\’99. Am I just that out of touch with the realities of the game design business?

    Yeah, you’re a bit out of touch. At 3DO everyone was in a cube, even good ol’ Trip. Of course, top management cubes were along the windows and a bit larger than everyone else. Eventually they went even cheaper and seated most people in “bullpens”, which are 4 people sitting at each corner of a large cube. Thankfully, I left before that went into full effect.

    Offices are rare, but a well-funded company like NCSoft probably has more than most. Sharing an office isn’t unusual, even outside the industry. A friend of mine that’s an associate at a big law firm shares an office with someone else.

    The nice thing about working from home is having my own “office” in a spare bedroom. ;)

    Oh, and public congrats, Scott. :) Do something awesome for us.

    Have fun,

  • http://www.mmodig.com unbeliever

    damn am too late.

    would have been fun to do a…

    prize: games i have cd hacks for – civ4, aftershock etc.

    game: guess what and where this gun toting idiot who was lum the mad will be working on.

    myself i say he lefy because tweety told him its over, thats just me mind.

  • http://www.mmodig.com unbeliever

    forgot to say, there goes NCSoft, they has such promise

  • http://www.corpnews.com Andrew Crystall

    Cube? We have an open plan office here.

  • Nick

    I haven’t been too impressed with NCSoft and destination-games. Tabula-However-you-spell-it-Rasa did a tripple backflip in mid-air, transforming from one game into something completely foreign. The initial pictures looked like an RPG from happy-happy-land and then the ending pictures looked like an rpg-based planetside.

    A new 3D UO would be awesome. I think thats what Star Wars Galaxies started out to be, but it failed because Lucas put up too many barriers to content and the game was too much work to play. I don’t know if we’ll ever see another UO, and I don’t know if anyone would risk the money to make one.

    At any rate, I want to wish Scott good luck at his new job. Hopefully he can find something fullfiilling, rewarding, and fun to work on. :)

  • Dren

    I know what you are working on.

    Five o’clock just like the rest of us. Except, at the end of the day, you have to release something more popular than WoW.

    You might want to stay until 6:00.

  • Azaroth

    Hm, well. I think they’ve made an intelligent hire.

    Happen to be working with Big Tony, Scott?

  • Atricks

    Congrats Scott, it was cool to see NCSoft and destination sign up several years ago and watch the Austin house grow. No with you it finally has grown up!

  • Sumyung Guy

    First of all, CONGRATULATIONS! I hope you went *DING* and leveled up with that job change. Second:

    ***winter says on March 6th, 2006 at 4:01 pm:

    Once you\’e2\’80\’99re done with L2 please kill Jack Emmert and fix CoH.
    ***

    Actually, could you just get right to the fixing CoH part? I know everyone’s gotten all distracted with the big shiney of City of Villians, but ultimately CoH needs a LOT of work, NONE of it having to do with nerfing tankers.

    Thanks.

    P.S. (Yes, and to the crowd out there posting and reading the comments…my wife and I DID quit CoH SPECIFICALLY because our favorite characters were nerfed like mad with Issue 5 (I think it was 5, it was the one that nerfed the CRAP outta defenses across the board, along with a lot of other stuff).

  • Demolira

    Shoot, that’s practically next door!

  • Bitti

    Well, dang. You’re the first person to ever LEAVE northern Virginia.

  • http://gawain.diaryland.com Gawain

    WOOT! NCSoft is my current favorite mmorpg company. Im excited now!

  • dutch_gamer

    http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=8442

    This is probably the new project Scott is working on. A new project nobody knew about and it gets mentioned only a few days after he got the job at NCSoft.

  • scottj

    Nope.

    I’m really not kidding. It’s nowhere near ready to be announced. Honest.

  • =j

    MegaTraveller Online
    WTFPWNO
    Age Of Empires Online
    Neko Neko Online
    DN4EO
    ItsNotLikeHeWouldAdmitItIfWeGuessedRight Online (INLHWAIIWGRO)

    I hope it is the first, but in my heart of hearts, I know it is the last.

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