The
cash is being sought by legendary British developer Richard Garriott who
created the original titles which helped define the fantasy gaming genre.
Ultima gave rise to Ultima Online which was one of the first
significantly popular massively multiplayer games.
The PC game, called Shroud of the Avatar, is scheduled to be
ready to play in October 2014.
Mr Garriott is expected to make a formal announcement about the
game and the funding push at the SXSW arts and media festival currently under
way in Austin, Texas,
In an introductory video on the Kickstarter webpage Mr Garriott,
often known by his in-game alias Lord British, said the current crop of fantasy
video games had become too formulaic and scripted. when
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Instead, he said, Shroud of the Avatar would be a much more open
experience in which players were free to follow their own path. It would be
more about playing a useful role in an online world than just racking up kills
and loot to make a character more powerful, he said.
It
would also take some elements from Ultima Online such as player housing and a
detailed crafting system.
Work had already begun on the game, said Mr Garriott, but those
backing it via the crowd-funding site would also get a say in how it would be
built.
Alec Meer, a writer at games news site Rock Paper Shotgun,
expressed surprise that Mr Garriott had to appeal for funds via Kickstarter
given that in 2009 he spent millions of dollars to take a trip into space. Penguin
News.
"This is an attempt to say 'hang on a minute, there's
another side to the story'."
People queued to vote at the town hall in the quiet island
capital of Stanley, where referendum posters bearing the slogan "Our
Islands, Our Choice" adorned front windows. The post office produced a
line of official stamps to mark the occasion.
In distant islands and far-flung sheep farms, ballot papers were
being flown and driven in by mobile polling stations.
"For me, this referendum is extremely important because I
have no wish to be part of Argentina," said Rob McGill, 67, who runs a
guesthouse in isolated Carcass Island and voted by post.
"I consider myself a Falkland Islander, but my ancestors
came from Britain," he said.
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"It's just a shame to see so many already wealthy industry
old-hands making hay with all these old-fashioned role-playing games when so
many dramatically more inventive and ambitious ideas from smaller studios are
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Shroud of the Avatar is being created by a company called
Portalarium that Mr Garriott set up after the failure of an online game called
Tabula Rasa that he helped to develop.
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