GDC 07: Interview with Erling Ellingsen @ MMOSite

The good people over at MMOsite sit down with Funcom's Erling Ellingsen for a bit of a chat.

MMOsite.com: There is no doubt that AoC presents extremely fantastic graphics. What sort of technology are you using for your graphics engine? And does the game require high-performance PC?

Erling Ellingsen: We re using our in-house developed graphics engine called the DreamWorld engine. This is the same engine that was used in Anarchy Online, but it s been greatly improved, tweaked and added to since then ¨C of course. By using our own proprietary engine, our knowledge of it is much greater and we re able to push its limits to a much greater degree while still maintaining the required performance levels. You will certainly need a good PC to run Age of Conan, but we re giving you the ability to scale down the graphics according to your PC specifications. We are aiming towards mid-range machines.

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