Guest Speakers

In addition to our own dev team (we got to be celebrities for a day!), we had the pleasure of featuring several other prominent names, including:

• Todd McFarlane, award-winning creator of Spawn, and mastermind behind some of the more exotic new additions to the UO universe;
  
• Will Wright, creator of the many SIMS games that have sucked away countless hours of computer gamers' lives everywhere;
  
• Eric Wang of Westwood Studios, producer of the upcoming Earth and Beyond;
• Austen Andrews, author of the UO: LBR prequel fiction and The Technocrat War, the new trilogy of novels from Simon and Schuster based on the Ultima Universe
  

Pictures:

Stellerex introduces Todd McFarlane before his session.


Calandryll (left) and Stellerex (right) listen in as Todd discusses the implementation of some of his creatures into the UO game world.


Todd McFarlane and Curse Mackey, leader of the Grim Faeries and creator of some of the newer musical works used in UO: LBR.


Will Wright, Gordon Walton and Chris Trottier brought us an exciting look into The SIMS Online. The only question now is… will they sell IV's for those users who won't be able to tear themselves away from it to eat?


Austen Andrews was there to sign his latest book, Masquerade, from the Technocrat War Trilogy - but didn't have too many opportunities since pretty much every copy in Austin was sold out before the FanFest. Oh, the sting of success!