What inspired you to use rings as the main weapons for players in zOMG?
Gaia Online is a social community of more than seven million unique and creative players. Because Gaians work hard to get their avatars to look a certain way, we didn’t want to create game mechanics that force them to abandon that look and feel for the sake of gameplay. So we brainstormed for a bit. We wanted a system that had a lot of flexibility in it so that players could sample and try the various “skills” before eventually becoming comfortable with their own personal style of gameplay. That led to the decision to make rings that were not visible on the character, but which could be used to trigger lots of extremely visual special effects. We’re going to be making some changes to this system in the coming months to make it even cooler and easier to understand for players, but those are the reasons we created the rings originally. Onrpg: Where do you get the inspiration on the abilities of the rings? We here at Gaia Online are…well…kinda crazy. We come up with more off-beat, cra
