While John Romero is probably best remembered for the work he did on the creation of the Doom and Quake series, he’s actually been bouncing around in a variety gaming development jobs for the past several years. Witness his first Facebook game Ravenwood Fair, which is debuting for game publisher LOLapps.
LOLapps is looking to break through into the group of the biggest social game publishers, a list that includes Zynga, CrowdStar, EA-Playfish and Disney-Playdom. They consider bringing on talent like Romero important to establishing their place in the social gaming sphere and will likely bring him on full time if the game succeeds.
Romero thinks that the quality in Facebook games is turning, pointing to industry veteran Brian Reynolds’ recent FrontierVille. “I knew when the game developers moved into social games it would get more gamed up,” he said.
Source: VentureBeat
