Red 5 Studios Interview

Gamasutra had the opportunity to chat with Red 5 Studios’ Michael Weingartner about some of the company’s recent management changes, as well as their as-of-yet unannounced MMORPG.

There’s a certain expectation that you guys, at the very least, are working on a fantasy MMO project. Is that a fair characterization of what’s going on right now? Are you still resisting classification, or..?

MK: Well, we’ve said before that … we’re not trying to be a sequel to WoW. Even though [we’ve] got some heritage there with the studio, you should recognize that we’ve got a lot of talented people from a lot of different game studios and a lot of different reputations. And we’re not exactly interested in recreating the experience of our former heritage.

I think that we’re very interested in what types of new online experiences we can bring to the gamer. And yet, at this point — kind of saving it for the announcement — we’re not categorizing it in any particular way.