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Colony Studios (http://www.colonystudios.com/index.html)


They've been listed as one of the Hero's Engine licensee's.


Check back in, say...5 years?

No clue who these guys are.

I'd be interested to know who they are claiming are one of the original DAOC team members, since I thought I knew where they all were.

Space and a major Hollywood IP?

Did Firefly have a developer yet, or only the publisher and rights?  Star Trek is already taken.  Probably too early and too unknown for another Star Wars.  Babylon 5?  Andromeda?  Lexx?  Red Dwarf?

What's left?

Farscape?

It's unlikely to be Firefly since Multiverse is the one searching for a development house and they would presumably want whoever they pick to use the Multiverse engine.

Isn't Battlestar Galactica unclaimed?

Hell, I might even enjoy working on that IP.

Blake's 7
Space 1999
Terrahawks
Buck Rogers

It's all good.

Babylon 5 plzkthx.

Battlefield Earth is the only logical choice.

Firefly 'rights' are owned by Multiverse, who to my knowledge, hasn't named a developer yet.  And I believe that whomever they sign to develop it has to use their inhouse Multiverse tools/engine thingy.


Someone is doing it, but can't remember who.  Supposedly, it's coming out for the xBox 360.  Rumors were that Blizzard/Vivendi was doing it, but quickly denied by both parties.

Space and Major Hollywood?

Alien(s)/Predator MMO?

On a completely different note, please bring me a worldly and non-diku (Ultima Online-like) GRR Martin's Ice and Fire.

Well they don't say an original team member, only that whoever it was worked on DAOC. It could be an artist or a member of the live team or something.

That said, they make these claims but also give no names. In fact, I couldn't find names anywhere on the site.

Misspelling three of the five MMOs they say they've worked on doesn't inspire confidence.

The xbox 360 Battlestar Galactica game is being developed by Auran.  I don't believe it's an MMO though.

(http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/m2/apr2006/5/9/000774E3-B5BB-143C-A0080C01AC1BF814.jpg)


heard it here first!  :-P

There must be some sort of automated online generator for these announcements...

Of course, to be true Fire and Ice, you'd have to have permadeath.

Yeah Permadeath would be a problem but a necessity.
I'll take it.

Idea: When you *die* by another Player's hand (the game will be PvP to the core and strongly factions/houses based with alliances dynamically changing), you have a choice:
1) Permadeath. And then you get to create another character that is just a younger brother/son/cousin of the dead one. Or a vassal, a serf, a lover, whatever. Let's say a step or two less skilled then your previous and just dead char (I'd avoid levels).
2) Surrender, and submit to your killer (losing honour or whatever). You automatically have to join his/her faction for a given (not so short) time, and until you are under your new faction you can be forced to attack your former friends and allies (as long as they aren't from your former main House). You can shorten that timer by actually doing a good job for your new Master, and when the timer run out you can stay under your new House or just betray (again) and get back to your friends (losing honour again).

Mobs can't kill you, just knock you out, comatose or the like. "Releasing" when you "die" by a mob means a commoner or a traveler found your comatose body lying in the ground, carried you to the closest tavern where they healed you as they could and put you back on your feet. Of course you have to pay some money to the commoner/traveler for saving your life, and of course you have revive sickness/wounds.

That said, and trying to not spoil it too much for those who didn't read it yet, recently it's not so easy to die or stay dead on Westeros.

P.S: Argh, now I want this game.

Looks like a 60 year old version of Michael J Fox.

(http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9909/28/fox.parkinsons/fox.jpg)

i can't believe you just compared Tom Baker to Back to the future Fox!  :-o

I can't see the BBC giving away the rights to a third party, especially one that no-one seems to know about.

Would Back to the future be a possible IP as horrible as that could be? That was quite a random thing to say /ignore

Geez, SnakeCharmer.  Do you really not know the most famous of the Doctors?

I really don't know who that is.  Should I?

Dunno. How old are you?

Who? Who might it be? We just don't know!!!!

33. 

I googled Tom Baker, found out who he was after Signe said something.

But we didn't get cable until I was about 8 or so (little bitty town in Alabama (where we actually lived OUT of town if that makes sense)).  And the chances of having that show (Doctor Who) on there was slim to none, unless it was on PBS or something.  Didn't watch much TV growing up, or in college.  Or even now, actually.  Probably would have gotten my ass kicked or hazed if I watched it in the athletic dorms or fraternity house I lived in for most of my college career.

The Nevada Secretary of State knows.

edit: ...and has a website...

(Too subtle?)

-When you pay him, every month, who do you pay the money to?
-Every dollar.
-You give him a reciept? How does he sign the reciept?
-Who.
-The guy you give the money to.
-That's how he signs it.
-That's how who signs it?
-Yeah.
-Well, go ahead and tell me.
-That's it.
-That's who?
-Yeah.

Actually, in the US, it was on PBS mostly.  I think.   You should watch them if they show those old ones again.  It's a hoot!

I'm 35. I grew up in rural Mississippi. HEY NEIGHBOR.

It was on PBS and I watched the shit out of it, until somewhere in the middle of Peter Davison's run on the show. I'm even now going back and renting DVD's they've released of other Doctors. You really should try to watch some, it's fantastic stuff. Just don't mind the cheesy special effects.

Plus they play the theme song at all the hockey games.

Dude.  Al-uh-bam-uh.  We don't have hockey. 

We did, actually, but it didn't last long.  I believe there are PARD leagues up in Huntsville, but Huntsville really isn't Alabama.  Much in the same way that Florida (or Cali) doesn't qualify as part of the 'South', Mason-Dixon line be damned.

I got lost once in some place named Brewton, Alabama.  It was dark and I was a-scared.

Our state is full of angry drunk rednecks. I don't go out after dark either. The Top Gear (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iTsfZ9TnNE) guys were lucky to get out alive.

That's probably just the immediate area of people you have an effect on.

I used to have that on cassette tape back in the day. And I still laugh everytime I think about it or hear it on TV or something

I have never seen more than 30 seconds of Doctor Who (and that just because it was on the channel when I turned the TV on). I suppose I should have my geek credentials pulled.

Yes. I'm prescribing 30 episodes of Tom Baker era Doctor Who STAT!

No it's most of the state excluding the larger cities.