Thank you for the interview!
As we covered a lot of topics, I've put together some timestamps. Enjoy!
Warmup:
- How are you? (note: interview recorded Fri 12th April evening)
- How do you feel about the final product [Requiem for a Dragon]?
- How did you first hear about RuneScape?
- Transition from sci-fi to medieval & RuneScape humour
- Do you believe in aliens?
- Favourite sci-fi franchise / Westwood's Dune
New player experience:
- Favourite tutorial?
- Have we thought about putting Davendale on desktop? (A/B testing)
- What's the hardest part of making a new player tutorial? (politics - problem 1 & 2)
- The monumental task of tutorialising RuneScape
- Ashdale focused on core principles (particularly EoC as it was at the time)
- Ashdale vs Burthorpe as new player hub
- Ashdale as the minigame hub