Age of Conan - Interview @ MMODing

MMODing chats with Game Designer Jason Stone about Funcom's upcoming MMO, Age of Conan.

How much research and time have you spent researching Conan? What have you studied for that matter and what are you looking for when seeing those materials?

This is a big question in a way. Almost all of us on the design team have read all of the Howard writings and a great deal of the Pastiche books and also comics. But we have also played a lot of other games, using them to inspire us for the combat system. Games like Dynasty Warriors, Soul Calibur, Ninja Gaiden, Mount and Blade, Severance etc.