Darkness and Light Interview
KeyWord: dal interview Date: 2007-06-18
Summary: Darkness and Light interview with ND Heo - Director of Darkness And Light and Joe Cho - International Business Division Assistant Manager.

 

DAL ¨C "Darkness and Light" is a PvP Strategy Siege Game. In this game, you can choose a character and raises him a battlefield hero by repelling the enemies with strong weapons and magic skills. Ultimately, it aims to conquer the base camp of the opponent. The concept of DAL is based on the final war between the power of the dark and the light, and the world view and the atmosphere of the Middle Ages as well as the characters and UI are adopted to the Isometric view (Quarter view) like RTS.

MMOsite.com: To start, can you give us a brief introduction to DAL? Can we say DAL is a game mixed with PvP and PvE?

Darkness and Light is an online real-time strategy game based on the conflict between two powers, Darkness and Light, and the war of the heroes who stand in the middle. We were influenced in our view of the world by the World Of Darkness tabletop RPG while we were considering an RTS. As a result of integrating character advancement and battle elements from existing MMORPGs, we were able to find a way enjoys RTS and RPG play at the same time. We believe players will be interested in the PvP, strategy, party play and advancing their characters.

Like in typical RTS games, players can start off facing opponents using known strategies and controls. They can select characters and make them stronger while proceeding through a game. The mission is to destroy the opponent?s towers, along with hunting, leveling up by killing enemies and acquiring items. This is a new concept, uniting RTS and RPG in a manner that is easier to play and highly immersive.

Currently we are offering PvP service only. But we are planning to offer PVM mode as well.

MMOsite.com: You said you had learned a lot from DOTA of Warcraft, are you a DOTA fan :)? What do you think of DOTA? What are the differences between DAL and DOTA?

DOTA is a usemap setting of WarCraft3, and contents are certainly in-depth game itself. But it is also so detailed and emphasis on strategy that slightly maniac to attract those who aren?t hardcore RTS fans.

On the contrarily, D.A.L. is easier than other DOTA games. The UI of D.A.L. is more convenient to recognize, and easy buying items and combination. Also player can user skill easier than DOTA. We also increased game playing speed. Players can finish game in 30minutes; because, in D.A.L has a guardian deity. After 30 minutes past in game playing, guardian deity will be popped up. After guardian deity popped up, game mission will automatically changed from destroy opponent castle to destroy opponent guardian deity. 

MMOsite.com: What type of character can we create in DAL? Can you say something about the character customization system in DAL?

Darkness And Light is a RST game with aspects of RPG. Users cannot create their own characters so far, although we are planning to offer a degree of customizability.


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