Firefly/Serenity MMORPG

[Beech]

Supposedly true!

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72263-0.html?tw=rss.index

 

[kafka47]

Beech, you beat me to it. In a perfect world, why can't Marc, Hunter & Joss just sit around a table with likes of Margaret Weisman & Tracy Hickman...right now.

Originally posted bfrom the SciFi.com weekly bulletin:
Firefly MMORPG Mulled

Firefly, Joss Whedon's shortlived but critically acclaimed SF western TV series, will live again in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, a la Star Wars Galaxies or Eve Online, Wired magazine reported.

Multiverse, maker of a free MMO-creation platform, announced on Dec. 8 that it's struck a deal with Fox Licensing for the game rights to the show.

Firefly, from the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ran for only 11 episodes on Fox before having its plug pulled. Cult fans kept the franchise alive, persuading Universal to green-light a feature film, Serenity, based on the series.

The online version will move away from the show's central characters, which included Capt. Mal Reynolds and the crew of the Serenity. The universe of Firefly featured everything from Old West-style towns to futuristic urban environments, gritty spaceships and pastoral retreats, as well as freedom fighters, oppressive government agents, smugglers, outlaws, mercenaries, trader, townsfolk, futuristic geishas and a race of corrupted humans known as the Reavers. Instead of making the game itself, Multiverse will hire a development team that will craft the virtual galaxy using Multiverse tools. The company is eyeing a game release sometime in 2008.

 

[Beech]

I'm not holding my breath though.
I hear the Star Trek MMORPG is turning into vapourware and look at the fan base that would have.
Would be nice though, maybe the closest we will get to our own.

 

[kafka47]

Still only believe it when I see it...

Firefly Flies Into Gaming

As expected, Fox has licensed Joss Whedon's SF western series Firefly to video-game technology developer Multiverse, which will turn the series into a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Variety reported.

Multiverse will hire a developer to make the game. It hopes to get input from series creator Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), as well as likeness rights and voice work from some of the actors who were in the show.

The company is building technology that lets developers build a variety of different online worlds that interconnect through one portal. It's hoping that Firefly, which has a devout cult fan base, will not only be successful on its own but will also draw attention to other properties using the same technology.

Multiverse was introduced to Fox executives by its board members James Cameron and Jon Landau. The game is expected to launch in 2008.

 

[saundby]

It's Dead, Jim

Probably old news to some, but the Firefly MMO looks pretty thoroughly dead.

Comment here:
http://fireflymmo.com/

No sign of it on the Multiverse upcoming games page:
http://www.multiverse.net/games/built.jsp?cid=2&scid=1

 

[Beech]

Why am I not surprised!