Interview Don Daglow Interview

Tags: Stormfront Studios

Do you remember Gateway to the Savage Frontier? Or the original Neverwinter Nights MMO (I never played that)?
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This is the <a href="http://gamethingie.com/dondaglow.html">first part of an interview</a> with Don Daglow, founder of Stormfront Studios.
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"They were the first graphical MMO, that I know of. We were MMORPG. They were the first graphical MMO and they came before us. So any time anybody says we had the first MMO I'd say no, Air Warrior first, then us.
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With the RPGs we will never know because, I was on the PDP-10, it looks like I probably did the first one, but who knows maybe someone else did one and became a kindergarden teacher and didn't keep track of it and didn't talk about it really. We can never know. And while I was doing stuff on the PDP-10 there were people on PLATO systems doing the same sort of stuff. And so there was kind of this era where some different designers were saying 'this was first, that was first', and they go back to where people were recording dates before Dungeons and Dragons. Well we all know that's not true. Dave Arneson, Gary Gygax, we all owed them because of D&D. And Arneson, may he rest in peace, particularly what Arneson added to the vision. None of us would have been doing what we were doing without D&D. And specifically some things Dave Arneson added to the idea of what is a Role Playing Game is what fascinated me and got me excited.
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So regardless of who was first, where: anybody who does not say 'Dave Arneson, Gygax are the ones that started this', it's just not true. They started it. We were followers and they were the starters.
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The guys who worked on PLATO systems were following Gygax and Arneson in the same way we were. I think, part of the problem is I don't know those guys. And once you meet them and talk to them you might start comparing notes and you'll get it all sort of mapped. And I don't know what the rivalry is, I was not on PLATO system I just don't know anything about it whatsoever. I only knew about the 10. In any event, D&D was the first of all, and we were all fervent, crazy, nutty D&D players."
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DnD.
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