2013年3月11日星期一

you would also take some elements from Ultima Online


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 you need cheap mobile phones
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 failing to reach their targets," he added. you will know the thing on the china deals
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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