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http://playmyworld.com/


Project: MyWorld Teaser HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El5Xc90Z5ZE)

Made by Real time worlds.

Id play this just to login and kill my shitty neighbour

So how is this supposed to work? They've modelled lardmarks and put them in place, while generating all other content automatically from satellite imagery?

Isn't this all kind of redundant?

It looks a little like what I imagined Metaspace was supposed to be like, before I actually tried metaspace.

Looks like the Sims on a real world map.  How is that fun, exactly?

Because its open world sandbox  :awesome_for_real:

It's just the machines getting the Matrix prepped for us.  Pay it no mind.

unfortunately most of the landmass is blurry indistinct green and yellow blobs

(http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2008/11/97%20Baby%20Awesome%20Faceplant.jpg)

Two things:

1. I suspect they'll suffer from the typical issue games have with offering the world, but only giving a few regions and never expanding.

2. Real Time Worlds. Pay by the hour.

From what I am reading, this is a platform, and the video features a city and world constructed to show off its capabilities and its editors (From a vote based "challenge"or at least some parts are ). It doesn't seem to be an end user product. It seems to be some sort of "Real world google map like platform for developing "social" networking and casual games" ..thing.

Some news links:

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/crackdown-developer-unveils-project-myworld/

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/project-myworld-what-if-nintendo-built-google-earth-20100729/

Project: MyWorld Walkthrough  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoT7dxxZALM)

I can't comment much on MyWorld as I am not directly involved.

However #2 on the list above is a massive assumption - payment models are product-specific not company-specific - assuming that MyWorld has the same payment model as APB is a massive assumption and one that I am pretty sure is inaccurate.

In the absence of real information, we'll fill in the blanks with assumptions based on the company.

great university project

how is it fun again?

Is there a SpeedTree equivalent for buildings? I could see MyWorld being popular if it helped cut that down.

Also, I'm expecting to see a 'Godzilla Attack' function somewhere.

These two products from RTW are like a perfect microcosm of the video game industry.

On one hand you have a game in which you play an e-thug and shoot dudes in the face, on the other you have some lego-looking thing the description of which is little more than "twitter youtube facebook."

Game design is hard... let's just build it and work that out later.

1. Yes.
2. It'll be free, since they clearly want to hook into the MySpace/Twitter/Facebook etc. - caveat, it's also likely that RTW haven't thought properly about how to monetise it, but, it'll, like, make them squillions. Somehow. Reminds me of the Theoretical Dollars thing from SouthPark.

Looks terribly uninteresting to me, but then I'm not (nor are most of us here) the target market. This is just RTW's attempt to get lucky in the social networking/gaming arena, since whoever succeeds first might end up with the facebook moneys money hats. See SOE's Freeworlds or whatever it is, or the Star Wars one, or Blizzard sells your info to facebook, etc etc.

Unless I can get hold of an attack chopper and go Desert Strike all over the maps. That would be awesome.  :drill:

I can honestly say, I don't get it - and I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to.

In a clever twist, Realtime Worlds is harnessing customers to build expansion districts for APB.

Google Earth designed to be more user-friendly.  Not a terrible idea, but not world-changing.  And not a game.

That's where I can see it being of use.  Game worlds using it to recreate real-life versions of locations then enhancing them for their own use.  Something like the Secret World.  As a social media tool, I don't get it.

Yeah, I'm surprised no one gave something like this a try yet. Like a SpeedTree for interior design, which would come handy with open world games. From the shape of the building, the code generates deterministic* random interiors (*: you'd want to have shit consistent in multiplayer).