Comments on: Uru Goes Gnuru

By: Larington

Larington — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:36:58 +0000

I do miss Earth & Beyond, they just needed to make the combat fun and it’d would’ve done great IMHO. Still think its a shame they didn’t/couldn’t/were-legally-obliged-to-not release the source code or some way of fandom hosting a server. Oh well.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:33:19 +0000

But think of the piracy! .. no, wait.

In all seriousness, I think it’s just the right sort of game for this, one with a small but dedicated and patient fanbase.

By: James G

James G — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:46:36 +0000

Yay! Actually, its a ‘game’ which always tickled at my desire for exploration, but one I never got involved in. Still, regardless of the nature of Uru itself (which clearly has a limited appeal) this of course opens the door for providing an open source code base for several MMO projects.

By: Ragnar

Ragnar — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:12:41 +0000

That is a really interesting and bold move. I sincerely hope this turns out well (so that other developers might be inclined to go the same path). One should realise though that it is not always easy to build a developer community around something which previously was closed sourced.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:35:09 +0000

That’s very cool. Personally I’m not hoping for new fan content (I can’t imagine it’d hold up compared to Cyan’s own creations) or anything like that, but just having the ability to set up and run Myst Online servers pulls the game from the graveyard, and I think that’s great. I’d love to see other defunct MMOs follow suit, like Earth and Beyond, Tabula Rasa (soon), Asheron’s Call 2 and especially Auto Assault – for which I have a great fondness but which did not work at all as a pay to play MMO game.

By: John Walker

John Walker — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:33:17 +0000

My headline was all about the pun, rather than factual accuracy. (That’s the RPS Promise!) They’ve yet to announce that detail, Rodeo.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:17:00 +0000

I’m really glad to see this happening. Myst Online had some great ideas, and some excellent content, but the business model just couldn’t sustain it.

If the fanbase can patch things up and get it standing tall again, I’ll be very happy.

By: Down Rodeo

Down Rodeo — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:57:07 +0000

Does anyone know what the actual licence is? I assume from the headline it is a GNU licence but then I also know from journalism that facts can be… blurred for a snappy headline (it’s cool, I do it all the time; it’s kind of fun).

By: weegosan

weegosan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:05:39 +0000

A contemporary and solid server -> client MMO (with things like latency smoothing algorithms etc) architecture is really something pretty special to be allowed to be open sourced. This could be a rather nice thing to trawl though.

By: Pags

Pags — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:55:48 +0000

@Mr Pink: I think Conflict: Denied Ops, Allowed Trailer was better. Both are Walkerisms however.

By: Mr Pink

Mr Pink — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:35:23 +0000

Best RPS Headline ever!

By: Larington

Larington — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:26:21 +0000

Interesting, this could also make a great teaching tool for games programming courses, I’ll have to forward this news to someone at uni.