Project Mercury Information

Author R.A. Salvatore spoke at GDC, talking mostly on Project Mercury (Big Huge RPG), the RPG project now under EA/38 Game Studios, under the guise of Salvatore, Ken Rolston and Todd McFarlane. IGN reports.

Salvatore said he and his team spent six months developing a 10,000-year history for the world of Copernicus and Project Mercury so the artists, writers, designers and programmers would have a solid basis for development before work even began on the project. 

“That was what I insisted on. We need a huge history. We need deep threads so we’re all going to be painting on the same canvas. You need consistency. It has to make sense. The way the races interact with each other has to make sense. You have to know how it all fits together. The way you do that is you do a history of the world,” Salvatore said.