Summary
Rob Smith’s company history follows LucasArts through interviews, concept art and development material. A published extract examines Habitat, an early online world: the partnership with Quantum, attempts to define player rules, beta testing, server limits and the decision to stop a planned US release. It also explains how licensing and a smaller successor helped recover development costs. George Lucas contributes the foreword.
Why read it Our view
The Habitat case is useful for founders whose product can attract more demand than its operating model can afford. Study partner responsibilities, user behavior during testing, server costs and the options left when a launch is stopped.
Written about
- George LucasCompany founder; foreword contributorCompany history of LucasArts/Lucasfilm Games, named by Lucasfilm as a research resource. Lucas’s foreword is a partial contribution.Source