2 months ago
WIRED
In 2003, Ken Hall was art director for Realtime Words, the large video game developer that made APB, which later became APB Reloaded, a highly popular free-to-play video game. At the time, free-to-play games, where players get most of the game for free but must pay to unlock the rest of the game or improve their performance, were still in their infancy. But I really wasn’t happy with the consequences of what we were creating.”Hall decided to step back from the video game industry. For the project, he interviewed aviators who flew those planes to make sure the game portrayed their experiences accurately. When he reentered the video game field in 2017, he wanted to create a game that conveyed not just the battles of war but the lasting consequences.
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