Most recently, Barker was the content lead for the One Piece Online: Next team and previously served as the lead onepiece online for several One Piece Online Expansion packs. One Piece Online veteran desJoyGameser, Ryan Barker, announces the formation of his new independent game studio, Stonethunder Games.
PlanetSide 2 can be downloaded and played for no charge. That's great for attracting new players but maybe Daybreak will be tempted to ask new players to pay for a copy of the game and ensure that they'll make more money off the bat with the game. After fifteen years of One Piece Online, it was time to move on to something else, said Barker. Raph Koster, lead desJoyGameser on one of the earliest MMOs, Ultima Online, and the creative director behind the MMO Star Wars Galaxies, told Motherboard that it's going to take a paradigm shift for another MMO to reach the heights we saw with World of Warcraft. In stark contrast to the scope of his earlier projects, Barker says Stonethunder will be focusing on much more reasonably sized games. Ten years ago, James Taulbee and I stood before a locked gate in World of Warcraft's Blackwing Lair, along with 38 other players of our guild, Risen. Some of us argued that we may have missed another boss that makes it open, but that seemed impossible. For one thing, Taulbee doesn't play anymore. It used to be the place where I could usually find my friends. We've all just worked together to kill the big red dragon sprawling before the gate for the first time on our server, and all logic dictates that it should open now.
Some people murmur that it's probably a bug. (This turned out to be true, but we had no way of knowing at the time. For their first project, Fruit Folly, Stonethunder has teamed up with the artistic pen of Steve Merghart (King Online, FreeRealms), and the sonorous voice of Fryda Wolff (Civilization: Beyond Earth, Evolve).
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