Oceania: A New MMORPG Powered By Unigine

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Oceania: A New MMORPG Powered By Unigine

Oceania is a new Kickstarter-backed MMORPG game being developed atop the visually impressive Unigine Engine. Native Linux support for this massively multiplayer online role playing game is being planned...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI3NDI

[shmerl]

Is it going to be subscription only, free with paid premium features, completely free or something else?

[dimko]

But was I only one who thought music is uber gay?

[GreatEmerald]

The engine is visually stunning and it continues to get even better, but unfortunately it just hasn't seen much traction among game developers.

Depends on your outlook. The vast majority of Kickstarter games that I have seen use Unity, just because it has good cross-platform support, and that's important for independent developers.

[Hamish Wilson]

The market seems to have basically fallen out of high-graphics and high-resource engines. The emphasis seems to be on ease of development and portability these days, and it is on these merits where Unity soars compared to even the quite cross-platform Unigine.

[shmerl]

Do you mean open source market, or gaming market in general?

[BO$$]

Why does absolutely everyone try to make a MMORPG? C'mon people, you want 100,000$ to make a MMORPG? It's got failure written all over it. MMORPG cost tens of millions of dollars to make!

[shmerl]

Oh, really? Take a look at PlaneShift.

[Detructor]

Why does absolutely everyone try to make a MMORPG? C'mon people, you want 100,000$ to make a MMORPG? It's got failure written all over it. MMORPG cost tens of millions of dollars to make!

Look at GuildSoftware (VendettaOnline).

[Hamish Wilson]

Do you mean open source market, or gaming market in general?

Gaming market in general. With the rise of console, mobile, and indie gaming, the desire for complex high-graphic, high-tech engines appears to be dropping out. Consoles and mobile do not have the same hardware power, and Indies do not have the man power. Therefore the two main features being sought after are ease of development and portability. As I said, that is why Unity is being so successful, and now that they have good Linux support that is actually a good thing.