General Discussion

Recently, MMORPG.com writer Carolyn Koh sits down for a conversation with Hermann Peterscheck about the recently announced Jumpgate: Evolution that will see the six-year-old space MMO updated for 2007 with new graphics, new AI and more.

In 2001, a space MMOG was released with little fanfare but a small, yet strong fan base. Did you hear about it? It was before EVE Online, before Planetside or Earth and Beyond. It was named Jumpgate and distinguished itself from the MMORPGs that were launching all around them, by billing themselves as NOT an MMORPG, but an MMO space flight and combat game. A game of skill, not gear and levels - a game best controlled with a joystick.

That was Jumpgate. It drew inspiration from older single-player, free-form spaceflight games from the 1980's and 1990's such as Elite, Elite II, and Wing Commander: Privateer. Developed by a small indie-group known as NetDevil, it outlived Earth and Beyond, which was published by Electronics Arts. It survived losing its publisher not three months after it launched, it was developed and run by the smallest team known to man (six), but yet it survived - not unloved, but relatively unknown - for six years.

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Cant wait for this hope it gets more publicity this time so that there is a good number of players to keep it alive for a long time :) go Jumpgate :D

"today, netdevil is giving jumpgate a much needed facelift..."

what does that mean?  it is all set to go and if i download the free client today i can play with all the new toys or what?

No JG:Evo is not even in Beta yet.

  Sounds like it s coming along,played many a year ago and tried again a few months ago but always

found a reason to leave.So ill try the new version for sure.love space sim action.I just dont think ill be

totally happy until I can go to a space junkyard and build my own master piece though.hope its a success.

Other news... Jumpgate community, fans, dedicated players had a contest to name one of the starter ships in Jumpgate Evolution.

See pic and name of the ship here. joystickrequired.com/forums/f5/jumpgate-evolutions-first-new-ship-halcyon-2174.html

this looks awesome, but cosmetic differences, though may seem frivolous, really make a player feel like its their game not some generic character that could be anybody.  i want a space game that i can look at and build a ship and say "wow look at that ship (or character or beast or whatever)no one else could have created that, that came from my brain and no one else's (even tho, in theory, anyone could). 

These screens look awesome.   If they can get me into the game in less than two hours (shout out to you, EvE) I'll be hooked.

Front page, you spelled Evolution wrong. It shows as "Evoltuion". Just a FYI to fix, its fine in the post, but on the little thing that highlights new editor articles it is spelled wrong.

I played it back then when it was released - was a nice game. Simple but nice.

Had alot of fun with my squad - CHIMERA !!

"it was developed and run by the smallest team known to man (six)"

Minions of Mirth - developed and run by two.