Wrel announced his departure from Rogue Planet Games as Lead Game Designer of Planetside 2 on May 29th, 2023. He is currently an indie game developer on a survivor-style game inspired by Valheim.

Lex is a Planetside 2 content creator.

Planetside 2 is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and I'm opening up the podcast to its community. This was recorded live, and features voice large and small speaking reflecting on the last decade, speaking on charity, community, alienation, identity, growth, and aging.

Planetside 2 is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and I'm opening up the podcast to its community. This was recorded live, and features voice large and small speaking reflecting on the last decade, speaking on charity, community, alienation, identity, growth, and aging.

Wrel is the Lead Designer of Planetside 2.

This podcast focuses on Outfit Wars, Planetside 2's premiere competitive event, which pits outfit vs. outfit in a 48 vs. 48 player conflict over the frozen Nexus sub-continent that's half chess match and half deathmatch.

In addition, Wrel also chatts about life as a game dev, how to read between the lines of community feedback, the everyday Planetside debate of whether or not to kill spawn points, and some of his hottest personal takes on the game and its community.

Carto is a senior systems and level designer with over a decade of experience crafting games like Defiance, H1Z1, and Planetside Arena.

In this conversation, Carto shares his story of getting into game development, shares insights on H1Z1, and gives a behind the scenes look at the conception, derailment, and the shuttering of Planetside Arena.

Carto is now busy working on New World's crafting systems at Amazon Game Studios, and can be found streaming nightly at https://twitch.tv/carto

Cmdr. Cyrious is a Planetside content creator and streamer. https://youtube.com/CMDRCyrious

Snebzor is a Guild Wars 2 streamer and head goose of the skein gang. https://twitch.tv/snebzor

In this podcast, Sneb explains how he applied his master's education in business and consumer behavior to growing a streaming community. He admits his shock at being accused of ableism when encouraging players to rise to the challenge of Dragon's End, and what it means for the growing division within the Guild Wars 2 community. Sneb offers advice on what we as gamers and developers can do better.

Maclaine Diemer is lead composer for Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons.

In this podcast, Maclaine shares how how he moved on from his dream of making it as a rock star and found the games industry. He learned about how games were made at Harmonix, where he worked on Rock Band, before moving on to ArenaNet where he got his big break as composer for Guild Wars 2.

Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons is the third expansion for Guild Wars 2. It brings us to Cantha, a mysterious continent far south across the Unending Sea, and brings with it fishing, skiffs, and a new jade-powered friend. End of Dragons features the final confrontation with the Elder Dragons of Tyria, and begs the question: what's next?

UWV_Preston first issued the challenge: first man to lose 50 pounds wins a steak dinner, provided by the loser. Deeg answered, then MMO INKS answered.

In this podcast, the heavyweights talk about what losing 50 pounds means to them, our individual battles with depression, the challenge of managing sleep, and what we put into and in turn get out of gaming - or not.

Oh, also hot takes on Guild Wars 2 raiding and End of Dragons.

Wrel is the Lead Designer of Planetside 2 at Rogue Planet Games (RPG). He lead the design of Oshur, Planetside's first new continent since 2014, which debuted new water interactions for infantry and vehicles as well as 2nd chapter of Distant Shores story campaign.

In this podcast, Wrel talks about how Oshur and its water mechanics came to be, and how its lattice and bases were designed to create "back of the box" Planetside experiences. Wrel also gives a campaign health check, explains what's going on with the spawn system, and discusses Planetside's 2022 roadmap including: the merits of a lore codex, Outfit Wars' return as a 1v1 contest on Nexus, and the importance of making NSO outfits whole.

Lastly, Wrel shares his philosophy on what makes Planetside unique, and how that figures into resource gain, force multipliers, combined arms, and Deeg's vision of "big" and "lil'" Planetside.