Evergreen Events is delighted to announce that Richard Garriott, creative director of Portalarium, will be the opening keynote speaker for the 2011 LOGIN Conference on May 17, 2011. One of the gaming world’s legendary designers, Garriott earned that status with his design of the Ultima role-playing games, one of the most successful computer game series ever. Ultima Online was the world’s first commercially successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Richard will talk about how the new era of online social games can benefit from reflection about the two grand eras that came before. Single-player games ruled in the 1980s and 1990s; MMOs ruled in the 2000s.
“We are now in a new era of gaming, defined by cheap or free-to-play, virally spread, casually begun gameplay,” Garriott said. “Each era has grown the market by 10 times! What lessons of history are useful? What truly new challenges await us? What will casual online games look like in five years?”
Richard asserts that if you are not trying to solve this problem, you will be left behind.
“Richard is truly a visionary, not only in game development, but also in his goal for opening up space exploration to private citizens,” stated Peter Freese, LOGIN conference director. “I can’t think of a more fitting and inspiring speaker to commemorate LOGIN’s fifth annual conference. I’m thrilled to have him as our first keynote and can’t wait to hear what insight and anecdotes he shares with attendees.”
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