Introducing the Star Wars Galaxies programming team
Star Wars Galaxies Technical Director Tony 'Teesquared' Tyson has been tapped to join the community and design teams, writing regular updates for the players. For his first 'Teesquared technical report', Mr. Tyson introduced the programming team, the gents who work tirelessly on the backend game components for very little recognition.
Considering the often-anonymous role that MMO game developers have on large projects, it's great to see this team individually lauded for their recent contributions. DevH (a popular forum-posting developer) is working on the back-end elements for the Chapter 10 community search feature, for example. The report also sneaks in a nugget of new information: the integration with Vivox planned for all of SOE's games is currently being trial-tested in Star Wars Galaxies by developer CancelAutoRun. It will be interesting to see what future technical reports offer, and whether the programming team can offer SWG players a built-in voicechat experience.
