{"id":163,"date":"2006-12-07T19:43:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T23:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animagnum.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2006-12-07T19:43:23","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T23:43:23","slug":"the-world-of-firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"The World of Firefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,72263-0.html?tw=wn_index_1\">Firefly Reborn as Online Universe<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\">Wired<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game.<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s shiny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiverse.net\/\">Multiverse<\/a>, maker of a free MMO-creation platform, plans to announce Friday morning that it&#8217;s struck a deal with Fox Licensing to turn the show into an MMORPG in the fashion of <a href=\"http:\/\/starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com\/\">Star Wars Galaxies<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eve-online.com\/\">Eve Online<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shiny, indeed.  I&#8217;m hoping that Multiverse&#8217;s deal with Fox will mean a faster development cycle for their engine.<\/p>\n<p>Having read a few comments here and there after the announcement, it seems fans of the show\/movie are falling into two groups:<\/p>\n<p>1. Wow, I can&#8217;t believe it!  Great news!  I can&#8217;t wait to play it!  I hope it&#8217;s a fun game.<\/p>\n<p>2. Ugh.  They probably won&#8217;t have fans of the show create it.  It will be a disaster.  The Firefly universe is unfit for MMOs because I say so.  My ideas are better than what this team will scrap together.  Of all things Fox could do to appease us, they decide to license a game.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the sci-fi crowd is a fickle group.  The game hasn&#8217;t even been started yet so hold on to your butts.   &#8230;and the argument about the &#8216;verse being unfit for MMOs (which I found on quite a few forums and blogs) is kind of retarded.  I shouldn&#8217;t even have to explain that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefly Reborn as Online Universe (via Wired) Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game. Now that&#8217;s shiny. Multiverse, maker of a free MMO-creation platform, plans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}