Then we had to decide either to make the game a downloadable desktop game – which we didn’t really want to – so we thought, let’s make our own engine. That’s up to you.Īctually, when we started out, we were working with a big engine company who was working on a more sleek version of the engine but in late 2022 they said ‘We can’t do this. If you want to go advanced and use some of these features, then you can. So from these learnings that’s where the idea came for Ember Sword where you should be able to get into a game without having to register anything, just typing the name, get in there and play, because why have barriers to entry? You don’t need a wallet to play. I think that’s where we’re going in the future. Why do you need an operating system? Because we just load up the browser directly and then stream in. I see the browser as a terminal, so if you’ve got the infrastructure, you can load everything up and just stream it in continuously. We were trying to build engines so you could stream in large worlds because one of the limitations of a lot of these engines is you can’t make big, live worlds so you end up creating games that aren’t big and beautiful. So it’s been all over the place but I learned a lot from it.īefore Ember Sword, you were working on browser games and that’s something you’ve also been doing in terms of its streaming engine.

So I created a bunch of different games, had a bunch of releases on Steam, some medieval games, fighting games, also had a stint in browser games, made a couple of engines along the way, both for web and for desktop. We were world champions for a really long time two years and three months, undefeated.Īfter that I got into thinking I should start making games again. After that I fell into playing World of Warcraft, which is where I got many ideas for today from. I played in a Counter-Strike team – a Danish team called Spirit of Amiga – when I was younger. I have an engineering background, but fell into playing games. Mark Laursen: I’ve been playing with computers since the TI-99 then Commodore 64, Amiga, you know, all the consoles, the rise of the mobile phones and everything else. This transcription has been edited for length and clarity.ī: Can you give us some background about your career so far? In the latest episode of his Blockchain Gaming World podcast, editor-in-chief Jon Jordan talks to Bright Star Studios’ CEO Mark Laursen about how his history in gaming has shaped the vision and technology for in-development MMORPG Ember Sword.

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