General Discussion

w At this year's Game Developer's Conference, News Manager Keith Cross had the opportunity to talk with the people behind Multiverse, the MMO platform which is free for use by developers, and with the developers behind a few of the many games being made with Multiverse. So Join us now as we peer through the fabric of space and time to view the many worlds of the Multiverse.

On the last day of the GDC I had the chance to stop by the Multiverse booth. When I wrote in our GDC blog about the various trials of getting to the Stargate Worlds interview, I mentioned there were other occasions where I was delayed getting to an appointment, and that on two occasions it was because I had a hard time finding the booth. Once it was because the booth was cleverly cloaked, and the other time it was all me. Well, the Multiverse booth was the one I couldn’t find because I’m a bit slow. I walked past the place three times, and finally noticed Multiverse in big green letters, looming over the booth in a very obvious fashion.

If you haven’t heard of Multiverse, it’s a platform for creating MMOs and virtual worlds with a unique business model. Multiverse is described as being “genre and setting agnostic.” Meaning that Multiverse is available to anyone for free, for any developer to make whatever game they please, restricted only by their skill and creativity. When and if your game starts making money, the folks at Multiverse are then entitled to a 10 percent cut of the game’s profits, making it a great resource for independent developers, and helping to mitigate the financial risks involved with the development of a massively multiplayer online game.

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Wasn't the Firefly MMO supposed to be using this Multiverse engine as well? It's not listed on their website so maybe that project is already dead.

Link to their website:

Multiverse

Has the Times Square Video as well as the GDC presentation.

These guys have the FIREFLY MMORPG apparently in development...

If this is good and easy Multiverse could be the answer for budding mmo devs.  Yeah Firefly was suppose to be made with Multiverse but I don't know now.  Its not on the Multiverse website and when I googled it I got articles from 2006 when they first talked about the game.  I hope they're still making it but I'm not sure now.

Michael Moorcock, the great author (creator of Elric of Melniboné, and many other fantastic characters), invented the term Multiverse back in the 60s and has been using it extensively in virtually all his books since. I wonder why these guys fail to mention that at least.

Originally posted by Rackhir

Michael Moorcock, the great author (creator of Elric of Melniboné, and many other fantastic characters), invented the term Multiverse back in the 60s and has been using it extensively in virtually all his books since. I wonder why these guys fail to mention that at least.

Rackhir the Red Archer, oh yea!

It would be nice to see a Multiverse MMO based on Moorcock's work. Here's hoping that products like the Multiverse software will eventually bring down costs enough so that any small production house can produce an MMO. Nice article, glad to see MMORPG.com focusing on the software/development side of MMOs.

Originally posted by Rackhir

Michael Moorcock, the great author (creator of Elric of Melniboné, and many other fantastic characters), invented the term Multiverse back in the 60s and has been using it extensively in virtually all his books since. I wonder why these guys fail to mention that at least.

I would assume it is because they made the engine for the firefly mmorpg initially. And in firefly they call the universe, the multiverse(whether or not joss whedon pulled it from moorcock is unbeknownst to me.).

Originally posted by Koddo

 

Originally posted by Rackhir

Michael Moorcock, the great author (creator of Elric of Melniboné, and many other fantastic characters), invented the term Multiverse back in the 60s and has been using it extensively in virtually all his books since. I wonder why these guys fail to mention that at least.

 

I would assume it is because they made the engine for the firefly mmorpg initially. And in firefly they call the universe, the multiverse(whether or not joss whedon pulled it from moorcock is unbeknownst to me.).

http://update.multiverse.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=16&theme=multiverse&sid=6e7bc981ff6751fc58d45ed7f87d8dd7

Originally posted by DeaconX

 

Originally posted by Koddo

 

Originally posted by Rackhir

Michael Moorcock, the great author (creator of Elric of Melniboné, and many other fantastic characters), invented the term Multiverse back in the 60s and has been using it extensively in virtually all his books since. I wonder why these guys fail to mention that at least.

 

I would assume it is because they made the engine for the firefly mmorpg initially. And in firefly they call the universe, the multiverse(whether or not joss whedon pulled it from moorcock is unbeknownst to me.).

The 'Verse ;) -- The site still has the Firefly MMORPG Forum up

 

http://update.multiverse.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=16&theme=multiverse&sid=6e7bc981ff6751fc58d45ed7f87d8dd7

Yes, but if you scan the threads you can see posts are begging for offical word for develoment and/or Josh Whedon to pipe in with his support.