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28th January 2011 06:21 PM
Darren Allan
The Syfy network and California-based game developer Trion are putting their heads together to launch something unique in the world of massively multiplayer gaming.
Namely, a TV show and a massively multiplayer online game based in the same universe and launching simultaneously. One Earth, which is the show/game’s working title, will “revolutionize the way you watch TV shows and play video games”, no less.
The idea is to not only have the show and game promote each other, with transference of viewers to players and vice versa, but moreover, to have them depend on each other. Both the game and TV series will co-evolve based on the actions of the community.
It sounds like pretty exciting stuff, but is likely to be one of those concepts which works out really well, or really badly. Fingers crossed it’ll be the former.
The game itself will apparently be a third-person shooter. No release date has yet been talked about.
Rob Hill, Senior Producer at Trion, enthused: “This project, in collaboration with Syfy, in and of itself, is completely different from anything I’ve worked on… Usually you have a game that’s based off of a book or television show or movie, or a movie that’s based off a game… Some of the implications of what we are trying to accomplish here are to really be able to broaden the audience, by bringing viewers from the show into the game and vice versa.”
Darren Allan
The Syfy network and California-based game developer Trion are putting their heads together to launch something unique in the world of massively multiplayer gaming.
Namely, a TV show and a massively multiplayer online game based in the same universe and launching simultaneously. One Earth, which is the show/game’s working title, will “revolutionize the way you watch TV shows and play video games”, no less.
The idea is to not only have the show and game promote each other, with transference of viewers to players and vice versa, but moreover, to have them depend on each other. Both the game and TV series will co-evolve based on the actions of the community.
It sounds like pretty exciting stuff, but is likely to be one of those concepts which works out really well, or really badly. Fingers crossed it’ll be the former.
The game itself will apparently be a third-person shooter. No release date has yet been talked about.
Rob Hill, Senior Producer at Trion, enthused: “This project, in collaboration with Syfy, in and of itself, is completely different from anything I’ve worked on… Usually you have a game that’s based off of a book or television show or movie, or a movie that’s based off a game… Some of the implications of what we are trying to accomplish here are to really be able to broaden the audience, by bringing viewers from the show into the game and vice versa.”
