By John Walker on November 13th, 2009 at 12:49 am.
Big Fish Games, they of the casual gaming world who aren’t PopCap, have released a new game rather beautifully called Fauna Sphere. I love the name, I’m terrified by the game. It’s one of them-there free cutesy MMO things, with an animal of your creation – a Fauna – and tasks to complete. It seems rather competently done, but it keeps asking me to socialise with other players, which sounds simply awful. But you know, perhaps you’re not me and this is your sort of thing. Have a look at the trailer below to help make up your mind (although it’s hard to believe too many people will be swayed by the opening gambit, “BECOME A CARETAKER”), or play it for free via the magical clicking of this link.
13/11/2009 at 01:40 Carra says:
I hope this game won’t learn our kids that dogs hatch from eggs.
13/11/2009 at 01:44 frymaster says:
it’s an MMO, not a neural net AI, it doesn’t learn anything :P
(I have no idea what you meant to say)
13/11/2009 at 05:53 coupsan says:
It’s blatantly obvious what he was saying.
13/11/2009 at 06:43 skizelo says:
Seriously, replace the word “learn” with the word “teach” and you’re golden. Not that big a leap!
13/11/2009 at 11:35 Carra says:
English 101 to the rescue.
I do mean teach.
13/11/2009 at 03:15 msarge says:
Dear John Walker,
In the sentence “I love the name, I’m terrified by the game.” I really feel that you should have used a semicolon instead of a comma, but then again that’s about the only punctuation, grammar, or spelling rule that I feel comfortable expressing familiarity with.
An avid reader,
msarge
13/11/2009 at 03:51 Wooly says:
Sir, I am hereby revoking your license to grammar.
http://thewritegal.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/grammar-police.png?w=179&h=210&h=210
15/11/2009 at 16:27 Joe says:
A comma works fine. Semicolons can be ostentatious, even confusing. Orwell has my back on this.
13/11/2009 at 03:28 Clovis says:
Oh, look, a FAQ.
15/11/2009 at 01:38 Klaus says:
Shouldn’t that be an FAQ?
Hurr!
13/11/2009 at 05:51 EDGEGTF™ says:
Where did the MMO part of the game come in? Looked a rather solitary experience.
13/11/2009 at 06:05 Gentacle says:
What could a turtle possibly bother?
13/11/2009 at 08:22 Senethro says:
lady turtles
13/11/2009 at 18:37 Lambo says:
His relay race partners?
13/11/2009 at 08:34 Isometric says:
“it keeps asking me to socialise with other players, which sounds simply awful.”
haha that sounds horrible
13/11/2009 at 09:22 mandrill says:
Yeah, I would give this a go (simply because its free and I’m a sucker for free) but the account creation seems to be broken. I can’t even enter anything in the text boxes. Amateurs.
/me goes off for a smoke and coffee before his ire drowns the world.
13/11/2009 at 10:39 Jonas says:
JOHN YOU ARE A TURTLE WITH A LIGHT ON YOUR SHELL. That’s awesome!
14/11/2009 at 00:44 RedQ says:
Seeing as how this is RPS I’m surprised to see no mention that Fauna Sphere is from the creator of Asheron’s Call.
14/11/2009 at 01:23 GrimmSweeper says:
For some reason when the website bitches at you for not having cookie settings “the right way” they disable the text fields. And any attempt at refreshing the page redirects you back to that page. Since they use php, I found the easiest solution was to eliminate any text beyond and including the question mark in the http bar and trying the page from there.
https://susi.faunasphere.com/login.php?somegarbagehere
to
https://susi.faunasphere.com/login.php
14/11/2009 at 02:21 lolo says:
adfa
[url=http://www.adasd.com]adf[/url]
sadf
13/01/2010 at 08:30 maddie says:
bubblegum
14/08/2010 at 07:58 Bob Faunaspher player says:
I love this from the main post “It’s one of them-there free cutesy MMO things, with an animal of your creation”.
First off you do not create the fauna yourself, there is no creating of any fauna that needs to be done by you the player.
Maybe if you played the game to its fullest instead of bagging it with only bits of what you think you know then and only then you might be able to make a better post on it..