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The Escapist - Boutique Massively Multiplayer Online Games
KenR:
Here is a nice long article about lesser known "Boutique" Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs)
Imagine, for discussion's sake, that you don't have $50 million, so you can't build and market a full-scale World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) clone. Suppose, too, you don't have rock superstar Bono on speed-dial, and unlike BioWare/Pandemic Studios, you can't finance your new MMOG through his $300 million Elevation Partners holding company. To get still more outlandish, let's say you cannot easily lay your hands on a paltry $3 million - no, really, work with me here - so you couldn't even produce a smaller-scale "casual MMOG" like Puzzle Pirates or Gaia Online or Dofus. Assume, hypothetically, you - just you, together with maybe two or three other indigent programmers - have six months of savings and a budget in the low four figures. How would you create and market a full-featured MMOG? ...
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/75/15
from http://www.raphkoster.com/
nudone:
so, are we going to write our own mmog - i could do with the money.
Deozaan:
I'm all for it!
tinjaw:
Should we do EverCody or World of Codycraft?
Deozaan:
Should we do EverCody or World of Codycraft?
-tinjaw (January 02, 2007, 03:55 PM)
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Invasion of the Docos! An MMO Tower defense game!
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