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10-02-2008, 06:33 AM
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Game Title:OtherLand
Genre: Sci-Fi
Developer: Cybepounk
Publisher: dtp Entertainment
Status: Development
German publisher dtp Entertainment has revealed that it's working on a new MMO set in a "multiverse" of virtual realities called Otherland. Based on the science-fiction novels of the same name by Tad Williams, it's scheduled for release in 2010.
Otherland - detailed in a full preview on Eurogamer takes place in a near future where the super-rich have their own private virtual worlds on the net, peopled both by AI, and unwitting humans who don't know that what they're experiencing isn't real
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The game takes place entirely in virtual reality as players travel across a varied series of worlds, with themes ranging from mythology, science-fiction and fantasy, to historical, contemporary and cartoon settings. The appearance of players' avatars will alter as they go, and the game worlds will change dynamically around them.
There will be scope for co-operative gameplay and player-versus-player conflict, as well as a wide variety of casual and social minigames in a hub area called Lambda Mall.
Gameplay details are still largely under wraps, but the core of the game will revolve around your ability to gather information, and manipulate the "code" that dictates the appearance and properties of your avatar and the world around you.
To make Otherland, dtp has funded the creation of a new multinational studio in Singapore called Real U. The studio is headed by Andrew Carter, formerly of Melbourne House, and formed around core talent from the long-lived Australian developer.
The game runs on a modified version of Unreal Engine 3, and is aiming to set new technical standards for MMOs.
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Very interesting thought
Otherland depicts a near-future world where the net rules all, and virtual-reality headsets that turn it into a surround sensory experience are commonplace. Everything from shopping to games has become an all-consuming alternate reality played out by humans ("Citizens", inhabiting their "sim" avatars) and computer-controlled AIs called Puppets.
Telemorphic capacity is what will allow you to change your own appearance, modify the stats of your virtual equipment, morph your gun into a sword, and adjust your avatar's abilties as you see fit (though there may be some specialisation later on) in an advancement system that Real U describes as "very organic and deep". It's all about bring able to suck information from the world around you -and that includes other players, who you can "hack into" in order to steal their information, take or copy their items, or plunder their virtual remnants after "death". The lower your telemorphic capacity, the more of the "real you" you expose, and the more vulnerable you are (not just in combat - NPCs or players might decide not to do business with you, for example).
Computer viruses will be a key tool. These can be bought from places like the Bazaar, plundered from enemies, generated through a crafting component of the game, and traded much like traditional MMO equipment. There will be situations where you'll want to infect hostiles with a virus, or even yourself; you can protect yourself from them with colour-coded shields, or by trying to outrun the "data ghost" goes that passes on the infection. Another tool will be the "Zoomer", an avatar mod that acts as a sort of data-capture sniper-rifle, capturing snapshots of the world and mining them for information. It will lock onto targets, but locking on will set off alarm bells for the victim.
Read more here:
Otherland Preview - Page 1 // MMO /// Eurogamer - Games Reviews, News and More (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=249125) (Read everything) xD
Own comments:
This game will be release 2010 and seem very interesting about making a 3D support mouse.
Welcome to the future xD
Game Title:OtherLand
Genre: Sci-Fi
Developer: Cybepounk
Publisher: dtp Entertainment
Status: Development
German publisher dtp Entertainment has revealed that it's working on a new MMO set in a "multiverse" of virtual realities called Otherland. Based on the science-fiction novels of the same name by Tad Williams, it's scheduled for release in 2010.
Otherland - detailed in a full preview on Eurogamer takes place in a near future where the super-rich have their own private virtual worlds on the net, peopled both by AI, and unwitting humans who don't know that what they're experiencing isn't real
http://images.mmosite.com/feature/news/2008_10_02/otherland/ss_01.jpg
The game takes place entirely in virtual reality as players travel across a varied series of worlds, with themes ranging from mythology, science-fiction and fantasy, to historical, contemporary and cartoon settings. The appearance of players' avatars will alter as they go, and the game worlds will change dynamically around them.
There will be scope for co-operative gameplay and player-versus-player conflict, as well as a wide variety of casual and social minigames in a hub area called Lambda Mall.
Gameplay details are still largely under wraps, but the core of the game will revolve around your ability to gather information, and manipulate the "code" that dictates the appearance and properties of your avatar and the world around you.
To make Otherland, dtp has funded the creation of a new multinational studio in Singapore called Real U. The studio is headed by Andrew Carter, formerly of Melbourne House, and formed around core talent from the long-lived Australian developer.
The game runs on a modified version of Unreal Engine 3, and is aiming to set new technical standards for MMOs.
http://images.mmosite.com/feature/news/2008_10_02/otherland/ss_04.jpg
http://images.mmosite.com/feature/news/2008_10_02/otherland/ss_02.jpg
http://images.mmosite.com/feature/news/2008_10_02/otherland/ss_05.jpg
Very interesting thought
Otherland depicts a near-future world where the net rules all, and virtual-reality headsets that turn it into a surround sensory experience are commonplace. Everything from shopping to games has become an all-consuming alternate reality played out by humans ("Citizens", inhabiting their "sim" avatars) and computer-controlled AIs called Puppets.
Telemorphic capacity is what will allow you to change your own appearance, modify the stats of your virtual equipment, morph your gun into a sword, and adjust your avatar's abilties as you see fit (though there may be some specialisation later on) in an advancement system that Real U describes as "very organic and deep". It's all about bring able to suck information from the world around you -and that includes other players, who you can "hack into" in order to steal their information, take or copy their items, or plunder their virtual remnants after "death". The lower your telemorphic capacity, the more of the "real you" you expose, and the more vulnerable you are (not just in combat - NPCs or players might decide not to do business with you, for example).
Computer viruses will be a key tool. These can be bought from places like the Bazaar, plundered from enemies, generated through a crafting component of the game, and traded much like traditional MMO equipment. There will be situations where you'll want to infect hostiles with a virus, or even yourself; you can protect yourself from them with colour-coded shields, or by trying to outrun the "data ghost" goes that passes on the infection. Another tool will be the "Zoomer", an avatar mod that acts as a sort of data-capture sniper-rifle, capturing snapshots of the world and mining them for information. It will lock onto targets, but locking on will set off alarm bells for the victim.
Read more here:
Otherland Preview - Page 1 // MMO /// Eurogamer - Games Reviews, News and More (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=249125) (Read everything) xD
Own comments:
This game will be release 2010 and seem very interesting about making a 3D support mouse.
Welcome to the future xD