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Cartoon Network Joins MMOG-Via-Web Crowd
Today at Comic-Con, the Cartoon Network announced FusionFall, which it described as “the first AAA, browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG).” (The “AAA” qualification is probably meant to distinguish it from low-budget, web-based MMOGs like Runescape.)
Set to be released this fall, the game will incorporate characters from the network’s many shows. Given the Cartoon Network’s enormously popular web presence (5 million monthly uniques in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen/NetRatings), FusionFall could be huge. I think it’s also a giant affirmation of the web as a viable platform for MMOGs, as opposed to downloadable clients (which take time and effort to install) or the software sold at retail (which are more costly for consumers and publishers.)
The Cartoon Network’s game is being developed on the Unity graphics engine, which is architected to run video game-quality 3D graphics on the web. Separately, Unity 3D said today that Funcom, developers of the retail-driven MMOG Age of Conan, are developing a casual MMOG on their web-based platform. In last year’s GigaOM Top Ten MMO list, at least half were browser-driven. I’m guessing that when we next update it, web-ified MMOs will dominate even more.
Image credit: www.fusionfall.com
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Kick Off Online Soccer Game
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CRSpace, a online game company in Korea, has just launched their beta version of the new soccer game, Kick Off.
You can try it here, it’s kinda slow because the servers are hosted in Korea but it looks like another great online soccer game that will eventually kick off the socks off most teenagers.
The Kick Off stands for a soccer game, namely, ‘Street Soccer’ which anyone can easily play, and which has been reinterpreted and restructured from existing soccer games by offering improved features. Users now can enjoy a realistic action, cartoon rendering typed graphics environment with a simplified operating system, etc. with the Kick Off.
CRSpace has applied an RPG feature in anticipation of growing Kick Off. User can choose a character from different positions, i.e. Forward, Mid fielder, Deep fielder, etc., as Soccer is one of the sports required organization and develop unique skills and abilities of the character at different levels.
After it is commercialized, there is a plan to introduce a league system. A ‘league system’ will be operated under a separate channel, in which users can play through ‘automatic team matching’, that is, a winning team plays with another winning team, whereas a losing team plays with another losing team, so as to enjoy more interesting features within the game by matching teams with similar talents to play against each other.
GlassFish's Load Balancer as Dear Abby
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A new Kazem cartoon on the Load Balancer as the High Tech Dear Abby of GlassFish (non-US folks may wan to check Dear Abby@Wikipedia). The GlassFish Load Balancer is based on the highly tested work from the Sun Web Server and the team is mostly located in India. -->All cartoons at TheAquarium are tagged accordingly. |