Questions for Firefly game makers, please

POSTED BY: WhoIsRiver
UPDATED: Saturday, December 16, 2006 18:46
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WHOISRIVER

Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:13 AM

Folks

I'm going to interview the people who have the rights to the Firefly MMORPG (Multiverse) in a few days.

Could you all please post any burning questions, queries or fears you have about the project?

I want to try to structure an interview with them that gets out to as many Firefly fans as possible, which also deals with any concerns & hopes peeps have.

Cheers
-gossi

PACCHI

Sunday, December 10, 2006 1:41 AM

gossi,

1) Please ask multiverse if the developers they are hiring are envisioning the game being played in ships' perspective or from a personal character perspective.

ie: Everyone gets their own ship to upgrade and swap, ports of call just have different abilities attached to them etc...

Or

Everyone starts out affiliated with a faction and crew someone else's ship with other players until they can strike out on their own. Crews are more like Parties in the MMORPG sense.

I am hoping for the latter, but it makes the game more complicated from a developer's perspective.

2) In a similar vein, will there be options of play for people to develop towns, real estate, and trade rather than crew ships?

Thank you for organising the interview, there will probably be more questions to come, but these were floating to the top of my head.

- P

KELAI

Sunday, December 10, 2006 3:28 AM

Wow, thanks for interviewing!

QUESTIONS

1. Will you be seeking any fan/crew advice on the project? When wil beta's be needed for the game?

2. Are you in touch with the crew of Firefly and Serenity (i.e.Whedon) for input?

3. Will there be a Companion Guild? Kelai wants to be a high-class whore ;)

4. When will the RPG take place? Before the war? The Firefly days? Post-Serenity?

CONCERNS

I am a really big fan, and my main concern is that there'll be flubs, like the planets won't be the same. So, basically, you get it.

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DATALESS

Sunday, December 10, 2006 3:55 AM

1) When will they start play testing?
2) How does someone become a play tester?
3) What types of character classes are there?
4) Can a player be a crew member of a ship (ex. The Captain, a doctor, a pilot or the hired gun)
5) Where can we as fans send our input to the game makers?
6) Can Macs play this game?

Thanks!!

DRBONHAM

Sunday, December 10, 2006 4:04 AM

Along with holding true to the story of Firefly, I'm concerned with the graphics area considering the future of video game graphics is drasticly changing and it is one of the main aspects people compare with other MMOs.
Will the developers be implimenting things like DirectX 10 and will the game utilize top of the line visuals and detail that will soon be available.

SIGMANUNKI

Sunday, December 10, 2006 5:58 AM

1) What other OS's besides Windows will be supported?

2) Firefly was *very* character driven as apposed to action driven. What are you going to do to ensure the same feel for this MMO?

3) Will I be able to own half a moon?

4) (this was brought up by some one else in another thread) Given that most people will want to be Browncoats, and that the Feds by far outnumber the Browncoats, how will you acheive this balance in game?

5) Thinking of the t-shirt fiasco just a little while ago, I have to ask, what genre of game can fan projects make without getting the dreaded cease and desist orders (or possibly getting sued). Obviously not MMO, but is there any other(s)? e.g. Scrollers, "Run and Jump", etc

EDIT: added not before obviously to make the sentence make sense.

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CHOO1701

Sunday, December 10, 2006 7:17 AM

1) What ideas do they have to make it different from other MMORPG's that are flooding the market?

2) Are they big Firefly fans themselves?

3) Can we name our weapons?

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ATIGDNG

Sunday, December 10, 2006 7:46 AM

Just please make it true to the 'verse is all i can ask...

SERGEANTX

Sunday, December 10, 2006 7:54 AM

1. In many ways Firefly breaks the rules of what people expect from sci-fi, deliberately tweaking the cliches of the genre. Can we expect the game to embrace the same spirit of innovation? How will it break away from the cliches of the mainstream MMORPG paradigm?

2. Firefly, in Joss's words, "isn't about the people who made history; it's about the people history stepped on." How will the game maintain the 'working class' atmosphere without alienating gamers weened on a steady diet of upgrades and levelling?

3. The crew of Serenity was forever torn between two 'worlds' - not accepted by law-abiding, civilized culture, yet finding no real comfort in a life of crime. Will the game present players with similar moral dilemmas?

SergeantX

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KELAI

Monday, December 11, 2006 1:41 AM

More Questions!!

In response to the Fed/High-Class/Browncoat player equals, are there going to be non-player characters?

Can I be a Reaver? Or are reavers NPC's??

I'm sorta new to this MMORPG thing, but can you have multiple characters?

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All A R O U N D You
you're S U F F O C A T I N G
the e m p t y shape in Y O U
s t e a l s your b r e a t h

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