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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
Well, the last few days have been a bit busy as I'm getting ready for a move, but I wanted to take a moment to discuss something interesting I found on the old Internets that was released by Mythic, the people developing Warhammer Online. That would be the Road to War website. Now, to put it lightly, I'm interested in game communities. As an extension to that, I'm also rather interested in game marketing. Now, while I am intending on picking up Warhammer Online when it releases already, it isn't its attachment to the game that draws my attention, but rather Road to War's marketing potential that intersts me.
Let us take a look at the various reasons why this website is an amazing marketing tool: | | No comments for this item |
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
One of my favorite topics about game development is player-generated content. The more the player can affect the game world the better. I also love customization and I believe that within a game world with thousands of other players, it is great to have various ways to help make yourself stand out as an individual. As such, I have to give a nod toward Cryptic Studio's.
Of course, their games of the past, City of Heroes and Villains allowed players a huge amount of customization options. This isn't something that they've let up on either. Their upcoming game, Champions Online also looks to have a huge amount of customization as well, and much greater power-customization and character skill customization than the CoH/V games. Yet, in a recent announcement to the Associated Press, Cryptic has revealed that their other upcoming title, Star Trek Online, will allow players to create their own races in the Star Trek Universe.
To me, that's a very neat thing to see. It lets players create what they want to play, and it adds a little something to the game. Considering Star Trek is a large, sci-fi universe with hundreds of species inhabiting the Galaxy, letting players actually create their own doesn't just make sense, but it also greatly enhances customization. It also, in a way, lets players make their mark on the universe as well.
This is a feature I've been wanting to see an MMO incorporate for a long time now and it is great to see it finally happen. Hopefully the customization will be pretty in-depth. | | No comments for this item |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
I recently came to the conclusion that I would start a fansite soon. I do, of coruse, hope to break into the game industry and get a job as a community manager and the best way of doing that, is to actually do the job before hand. I ran a few fansites in the past, but they were for the WarCry Network, and the site wasn't truly mine. I wanted to give it another go, but this time starting from scratch. I was planning on doing this once BioWare announced their MMO. I wanted to do that, because I wanted to start a fansite up early as to lower competition and get myself noticed. Its not so much that I want to start a fansite, but I want a big one.
Then Cryptic officially announced Star Trek Online . Now, admittedly, I'm not the biggest Star Trek fan in the world - far from saying I dislike it, quite the opposite. However, this announcement leaves a huge IP, a compelling universe, a space MMO, and no fansites for it yet. It seems all the prior ones when Perpetual was developing the game had fallen off the map. It even turns out I know their community representative.
Thus Station K-7 was born in a join effort between myself and a friend.
This isn't to say I won't start a BioWare MMO site up when it does get announced - the idea of starting a small mini-network sounds rather fun. | | No comments for this item |
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
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There have been several projects in development that are trying to hybridize both the web and gaming. Metaplace is one of those - and well, so are the thousands of flash games out there too - but there are others out there bringing games to the web in other interesting ways as well. One of those games is a low profile MMORTS known as Dreamlords . This game features a 3D game client that allows players to control units and lead them into battle like a normal RTS game (although a fairly cut down one), but it also allows players to control their lands, structures, and units via a web interface somewhat similar to other browser-based strategy games.
This concept allows someone to enjoy the 3D client when they want, and are able to, dig into the main part of the game. However, if they aren't at their computer, or they only have a few minutes to spare, a player could easily log into the web client to issue a few build orders.
This is far from the only game, much less type of game, that could benefit from intigrating a bit more web into the game. | | No comments for this item |
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
Perpetual Entertainment was the company that was heading the development of Star Trek Online - the online game that many a nerd was looking forward to - before it bottomed out and closed down, leaving both of its titles, including STO, unpublished. This of course crushed said many nerds' hopes and dreams. However, it was reported that someone had bought the rights to develop STO from Perpetual after it had closed down. This, like any such thing on the internet does, caused a great deal of speculation as to who bought the rights. So, when a countdown clock appeared on Cryptic Studios website, complete with a piece Star Trek Online concept art for a background, it started to look like Cryptic was going to continue the development of the game.
The staff over at the WarCry Network picked up on a few interesting pieces of information that all but confirms that Cryptic is, indeed, developing the game.
Thus the crazy saga that this has turned into continues. Now, hopefully internet speculation ends up being correct on BioWare's MMO, eh? | | No comments for this item |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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No, this is Emergent Future still, you didn't stumble across the wrong website. While I quite enjoyed the old look of the website, I have been wanting to put the site through a bit of a redesign for a while now, but I haven't been able to find a look that I actually really liked. Luckily, that changed when I stumbled over a template for Joomla! that caught my attention. A few tweaks later and the website has a new face. This design should improve the overall look of the site, while still keeping an overall simple design philosophy. It fits well, I think, over all. | | No comments for this item |
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