David Benioff and D. Weiss of HBO said the series can be naturally extended into a game, which is one more example of transmedia, or the exploitation of a popular property across books, televisions, games, and other media.

Norwegian game studio Artplant will develop the title for Bigpoint on top of the Unity 3D development platform. Artplant helped develop Battlestar Galactica Online.

Work on the game began last summer and a closed beta test is planned for the fall of Bigpoint has more than million registered users.

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In fact, Ollett says that he was a fan of the novels before working on Bigpoint's free-to-play MMO and coming to the project knew there would be challenges in being faithful to a linear storyline in a very non-linear RPG.

It might explain why Bigpoint has gone the distance to maintain as much fidelity as possible to the series, including voice work from the show's actors and even sharing incidental audio from the series like the sound of horses and crowds along with the now-famous opening sequence.

For Ollett, the novels and TV show have provided ample fodder to get a game off the ground; "All the thing I need to produce a great game," he explains, "are in [the novels].

And I have to cherrypick them into an experience that can be social. Right now, the most important goal for the Bigpoint team seems to be that social component as they attempt to build a community within the game in advance of its release.

For Ollett, it's important that Game of Thrones capture the political element of the series while also "being a game where you hit people with swords and hammers and ride on horses, which there are lots of.

The game is based around the various factions found in the GoT universe, the houses, families, and alliances all marching towards or trying to avoid all-out war.

With that in mind, depending on your choice of character class, you can either be a bruiser, wading through enemies, or a political master, setting territorial boundaries and attempting to sway your opponents through manipulation and forging friendships with player and NPC characters.

Ollett says that the wealth of content from the source material means that the Bigpoint team has had to be judicious in prioritizing what goes into the game.

He says that PvP combat, castle sieges, and politics were the three pillars that were essential to the game.

I asked him what Bigpoint had to draw focus away from when developing the game and he said that questing had to be scaled back; Bigpoint has found with some of their other titles like the Battlestar Galactica MMO, that heavy questing and story content don't draw in their gamers as much as combat and objective-based interactions.

Back to that social component, for Ollett, one of the most important things right now and what he acknowledges is the key element for an MMO's survival is keeping his team's game community-oriented.

That means creating content that encourages players to work in groups, to team up to take down a group of enemies, to plan raids and strategize inside and outside of the game space.

He points to castle sieges as being the "epic gameplay," and kind of the endgame for some of Game of Thrones ' social scenarios.

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