Multiverse goes 1.0
Congrats to the Multiverse guys on releasing version 1.0 of their platform.
Year: 2007
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Art Games: Best Indy Titles
This is very flattering. Mentisworks has done a selection of the best indie “art games” which is featured on the front of Indygamer. Andean Bird placed on the list, alongside titles like Facade, Flow, Raspberry, The Endless Forest, The Marriage, and many more intriguing titles. Given that the Bird is still at version 0.5, that’s quite august company to be keeping.
Quite unlike anything else out there, Andean Bird offers a leisurely glide across the landscape to the accompaniment of beautiful music. It does manage to instill some of the qualities of flight, yet that same endeavor is hampered by its lack of fullscreen capability.
Hmm. Fullscreen is about two lines of code, I should add that.
Anyway, the latest version is 0.5, and it’s here (PC only, zip file… sorry, I haven’t compiled a Mac version in eons).
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Club Penguin sells for $700m, to Disney
$35m in profit next year, on $65m in revenue. Yes, that’s a 50% profit margin. 700,000 paying people and 12m registered.
The WSJ says the purchase price is $350 million in cash. Disney could pay up to another $350 million if certain performance targets are reached over the next couple of years, until 2009.
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Virtual Worlds News interviews Hui Xu, HiPiHi CEO
Virtual Worlds News: VirtualWorldsNews Interview: Hui Xu, HiPiHi Founder and CEO
Of particular interest: the idea that HiPiHi plans to work to create standards for virtual worlds across the Web.
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Comic-Con thoughts
Sorry, no pics of Batman pushing prams this year.
The whole office went together this time, but within five minutes of my hitting the hall, I had lost them anyway.
Name-dropping:
- As usual, Scott Kurtz was too busy sketching to chat, but I did get to chat with Angie. Review forthcoming on the trade of Truth, Justin, and the American Way.
- Maybe it’s a deep dark Internet secret, but Tycho of Penny Arcade is a closet game designer. I won’t reveal his great idea here, as it is too intense for most people’s small minds, and could cause brain explosions across the Internet.
- As usual, Gabe said one word. 🙂
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