Another Friday with just some tidbits to share.
- Playable Worlds
Raph Koster announced his latest venture yesterday. Called Playable Worlds, it got $2.7 in seed capital to start making it a thing.
As jaded as I am, $2.7 million doesn’t seem like a lot of money. Thanks Star Citizen! But it is seed capital, so the team has to make some progress before they will get any more I suppose. At least it is not being crowd funded. The description though… that is wide open.
As you might guess, with the online world, we are going to build a massively multiplayer world where all sorts of players can come together and find ways to regardless of whether they like exploring or adventuring or socializing or player-versus-player (PvP). It’s a sandbox world that supports many ways to play.
-Raph Koster, VentureBeat interview
All things to all people much? It won’t be a themepark I guess. But what will it be? Possibly` another MetaSpace, Raph’s previous venture, where you got tools and had to make your own content. That did not end well. But there is a solid team signed up to give it a shot, and Bhagpuss has run down the backgrounds of some of them already. Massively OP also has a post up about it.
As for when it will show up, you had best find something else to occupy yourself for a few years, this is going to take some time. But you can sign up for the email list on the Playable Worlds site. Or follow them on Twitter or Instagram or whatever. You can also apply for a job there.
- ManaWorks
Another new studio was announced this week, ManaWorks.
Good for those looking for something from a new studio, but perhaps bad news for fans of GuildWars 2. As Kotaku notes, the lead of the new studio is Mike O’Brien, who was up until now president of ArenaNet and quite possibly involved in whatever would come next from the studio. With his departure, along with other members of the GW2 team, the future of ArenaNet projects is very much a matter of speculation. There are posts up about this at Massively OP, Inventory Full, and Nerdy Bookahs that are worth reading if this topic is of interest.
- EverQuest Show Daybreak Teaser
The EverQuest Show traveled to San Diego to talk to the Norrath team and has promised to share the interviews in the next episode of the show. Until then there is just a teaser video up featuring a short chat with executive producer Holly Longdale.
- Norrath Soundtracks
Daybreak has announced that the original soundtracks for EverQuest and EverQuest II are now available for purchase from Amazon, Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, and maybe Pandora.
Sound Tracks for Both
I’ve not been a big fan of the Norrath music myself. It tends to run between too brassy and too few strings on the lute for me. But I barely like anybody’s soundtrack and generally turn the music off and listen to my own while I play, so Norrath is hardly an outlier for me.
- Skywalker Speculation
And, completely off the video game topic, a new Star Wars movie is coming this December, the third film of the third trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker. I am sure it will make many people angry and/or happy, while making Disney just that much more wealthy. Not a lot is known about the story, or even the meaning of the title. Over at How it Should Have Ended on YouTube they have put an episode of Villain’s Pub that speculates on what is really coming for this entry in the saga.
It is as least as good as any of the fan theories you’ll find on Reddit.
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