As a part of an in-depth interview at Gamasutra, Stargate World's developer Joe Ybarra has revealed that the Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment has a total of four teams at work, including a second MMO currently in development besides the Stargate licensed one. In addition to that, Ybarra talked about the evolution of CME and their future gaming plans:
"We started the company in July of 2005, and the company was basically started by a group of people that had a relationship with MGM, three years prior to 2005, for the rights to get the online versions of Stargate.
And it took them about three years to find Gary Whiting, who is the chairman of our company, and our primary fund raiser. And so he thought, "Well, gee, this sounds like a really interesting idea, trying to do an MMO based on the science fiction TV show."
So I was recruited and brought on as employee number one, the start of the start of the whole studio process. And over the course of the next year, year and a half, we built up the first studio, which is Stargate Worlds Studio, and then -- as I mentioned -- about a year and a half later, we started up studio number two, which was at the time headed -- and still is, actually -- by Rod Nakamoto, who's our VP of product development.
So, now we're a year and a half in the process, so over the next year, we proceeded to build two more studios. So we have four now, one of which is located in Boston."
Ybarra's long resume includes The Bard's Tale, M.U.L.E., Starflight, Wasteland and MMOs Shadowbane and The Matrix Online.
Read the full interview at Gamasutra.com





