Realtime Worlds snuck an announcement in tonight for a new venture that they're calling "Project: MyWorld." According to the above trailer, it takes a 3D recreation of planet Earth and combines it with gaming and social media to do... something.
Perhaps the concept is just too vast for my tiny brain to comprehend. The game shows elements of world construction, but I thought the world was already built. How would changes to structures in the virtual environment affect other players? And what's with buying Buckingham Palace? Something tells me the contract for such a thing would be ridiculous, possibly containing more lines than the code used to create Project: MyWorld.
This is another one of those things which seems to not be built with me, as a hardcore gamer, in mind. I don't want to draw comparisons to PlayStation Home here but it's a little bit difficult not to. The odds of my participating in something like this for more than five minutes, based solely on what I've seen here, is unlikely. Then again, I would have said the same thing about FrontierVille and that's kept my attention for a while (admittedly, it's waning). Perhaps some more information may change that perspective.
What about you? Do you need another virtual world to play in with all of the people in your real one? And what would you like to be able to do in such a place?
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I'd guess you start with "The World", and then it's up to the users to change "The World" and make "MyWorld" by buying "The World"'s properties and building your own. Though I'm not sure if they'd be making "MyWorld" or "OurWorld", because you're supposed to be able to share "[Your]World" so presumably you're not all living in the "SameWorld" but then... you'd, what, customize the "EntireWorld"?
Whatever, it's obviously based around social media (you know, I already have a single application I can manage all that in, and I can even browse Destructoid on it!) and shitty minigames.
these morons should just be fixing APB glitches and bugs, but seeing how APB will tank very soon, they prolly trying to have something ready for that moment
@Colin Stein
Holy crap you weren't kidding. The whole trailer was a LBP2 knockoff. It's so close there's got to be some content in there that borderlines copyright infringement.
Looks like the building-creation of the Sims mixed with the scale of Sim City (but bigger), the mini-games of Home and the marketing-style of LittleBigPlanet.
So, heres a big few questions that they didnt even answer. Can we build stuff ourselves?, are we restricted a certian amount of money which we gain ingame? and can we assimilate entire landmasses into buildings?
meh...Sim City Online?? seems like Real Worlds def stook the idea from Maxis before they could dip their balls in it. I laughed..Sim City Online, how in the Afro Jesus is this going to run..
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3:00 AM on 07.29.2010
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Whatever, it's obviously based around social media (you know, I already have a single application I can manage all that in, and I can even browse Destructoid on it!) and shitty minigames.
its prolly going to suck also
Holy crap you weren't kidding. The whole trailer was a LBP2 knockoff. It's so close there's got to be some content in there that borderlines copyright infringement.
More like half life
I dunno about this.
I was thinking the SAME thing!
I don't see myself playing this but perhaps the youngans.
pass.
What?
Either I'm missing something, or I don't know what the @#$! just happened.