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July 15th marks the 10-year Bioware and fans across the globe are celebrating today and we want to bring you a roundup of some of the great posts, stories and interviews of the big day.
The Game Agent Blog brings us 10 Years of KOTOR: An Interview with Lead Designer James Ohlen which interviews KOTOR Lead Designer James Ohlen from BioWare about his experience on KOTOR. Here is a snippet:
Jon Carr: Can you introduce yourself to our readers and explain the role you had in creating Knights Of The Old Republic?
JC: You were also games influence the development and vision of KOTOR?
game had a big influence on the game systems we put into KOTOR.
Be sure to head over and read the full Q&A if you’re a fan.
James Ohlen also posted over on the explains how KOTOR influenced SWTOR as we know it today:
The parts of KotOR we felt were most important to get integrate included:
- Epic storytelling in The Old Republic era
- Cinematic storytelling
- The internal struggle between good and evil
- Becoming a Jedi
- Owning your own Millennium Falcon inspired starship
- Traveling to many different worlds
- Adventuring with companion characters that you cared about.
He closes with these thoughts, “Ten years from its release, I think people will look back on the scope and quality of storytelling in SWTOR community is thriving right now, I think we’ll be celebrating the anniversary of SWTOR right here on the website!”
And Bioware’s own website jumped in with a tribute as well as some quotes from of the KOTOR team. Hear from Derek Watts, Janice Thomas and Lukas Kristjanson. And they also have some free KOTOR wallpapers for us.
in the celebration with us and these commemorative Knights of the Old Republic wallpapers!
