Dungeon Runners - Interview @ Gamernode

Gamernode talks to Mark Tucker, Lead Designer on Dungeon Runners, about NCSoft's free-to-play MMO.

So tell me, as a company, what made NCSoft go, "We should really make a game which people may never pay for"?

Well, it all started quite a while ago. This game has had several different names and different teams over its development lifespan. It has been shelved and resurrected multiple times as well. You might recall a game that NCsoft announced many years ago called Exarch. Well, that was a previous incarnation of Dungeon Runners that was never released. This game has been a pet project of our CEO Robert Garriott from day one.

He started looking at the free-to-play MMO market space and saw a great opportunity for NCsoft, and being fond of Dungeon Runners, he felt that it was the right game to launch as a Free-to play MMO.So, about a year and a half ago, he gave the go ahead to start building, yet another, development team to work on Dungeon Runners and finish it out. That's where we came into the picture.