Lord of the Rings Online - Book 13 Interview

Ten Ton Hammer has interviewed world builder Matt "Scenario" Elliot about the upcoming free update for Lord of the Rings Online, Book 13:

Ten Ton Hammer: How long has Book 13 been in the works?

Matt Elliott: Oh goodness. I think we were plugging away at the ideas for it as early as December. We tried some new development processes for Forochel. Typically, when we do an update, everyone helps on it at the same time. For Forochel, in order to give world, content, and game systems more breathing room, we spread out the space over a longer period of time.

For example, my team – the world team – could go in and do all the places and development of this stage without getting in the way of other departments. After that, the content team came in behind us and did all the quest development and NPCs.

Overall, I think it worked out pretty well for us. We managed to complete a very large space in the amount of time we spent developing it.