the future of firefly
POSTED BY: tweakerlime
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 22:03
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The future may lie with the fans, creating their own stories and telling their own tales.
I'm interested in the internet becoming a new distribution channel. With the growth of video online and broadband access there's the possibility that small numbers of fans across the world in many nations can come together to create a large enough market to support a commercial enterprise.
One of the first to attempt this will be the show Sanctuary - http://www.sanctuaryforall.com/ and http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2007/02/12/tapping-finds-sanctuary/. This is being made by highly experienced producers/crew in Vancouver B.C. who worked on the Stargate series. If they can prove that the online business model can work financially and technologically then we may be in for a radical cultural shift. This could cut out the distributor/exhibitor and connect the producers and fans directly.
We have a site writing up the next season of Firefly - http://www.stillflying.net/
We have a audio series with a shiny cast that's really worth listening to - http://sonic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=118820
http://www.sonicsociety.org/
If Sanctuary works what's to stop fans drumming up the support for a fan film? A film that will work commercially and be the basis for future films.
We wouldn't be the first fandom to try this either. The brave lads and lasses of Finland have beaten us to it, check out In the Pirkinning - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wreck:_In_the_Pirkinning.
The Computer graphics in this film are very high quality and the comedy is good for an amateur production.
Hold the Line, there's more, much more to come.
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Originally posted by tweakerlime:
Omg...i didn't quite feel like reading that whole page, but i did notice its about an MMORPG...how much truth is behind this? Ill go and reserve it now!
What does MMORPG mean?
JDx
How come things never go smooth
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Quote:Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmorpg
Originally posted by JeanDask:
What does MMORPG mean?
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game
MMO RPG
It is real. About 2 years away, but real!
Fox has a contract.
Do a search for: Knight-Online or the latest
Lord Of The Rings online LOTRO
They are servers with thousands of people playing the same game, at the same time.
I'd love to see the verse come alive that way, but I'm still hoping for another movie or better still the return of the series at the same time.
We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!
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Well, it's "real" in the sense that they announced that they got a deal with Fox at the beginning of December last year, and haven't said a gorramn thing since. No announcement that they've found a developer, no announcement of Joss's take on it, no announcement of getting the rights to use material from Serenity, nothing. Not a word, for four months now. They can say they'll release in 2008 all they want, but unless they find someone to make the thing, I wouldn't count it as a done deal.
I really really hope it does happen. I'm a huuuuge MMORPG fan (playing World of Warcraft right now, along side about nine million other people) and would play a Firefly MMORPG in a heartbeat. But this isn't like the other scifi shows that are getting MMORPGs (Stargate, Star Trek, etc). There isn't a development studio working on this at all. Just some guys with some half-finished software who paid Fox for rights Fox has proven they don't care about or understand. I don't want to rain on the parade, but I am going to remain dubious until a development studio, team, and designer are announced. But it *could* be the future of Firefly (especially if they get the rights to use the Serenity material), if it actually gets made.
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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"There isn't a development studio working on this at all. Just some guys with some half-finished software who paid Fox for rights Fox has proven they don't care about or understand. I don't want to rain on the parade, but I am going to remain dubious until a development studio, team, and designer are announced. But it *could* be the future of Firefly (especially if they get the rights to use the Serenity material), if it actually gets made."
Are you sure? I thought I heard an interview on 'The Signal' when they interviewed the guy who bought the MMORPG rights & I thought he had a team figured out. I thought they were just looking for some online beta testers. Am I wrong?? Also know it takes 1-2 years to develop any decent online game. You may already know this since you play WOW.
Maybe we can ask the folks at The Signal??
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oooooooooooooooo! this sounds good....but is that all it is? nice to hear? well i'm wit you guys! hope it happens and will be there no doubt when it does!!
Thanks for informing me!
JDx 
How come things never go smooth
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One of the best resources for news on the Firefly MMORPG is http://fireflymmo.com/ They seem to keep pretty good track of all the interviews that have talked about the game (which have *all* dried up since January). The company that bought the rights, Multiverse, is not a game company, but rather a software company making software that will let game designers make MMORPGs faster. They've said in multiple interviews that they haven't "selected" a developer yet.
MMORPGs typically take about 5 years to create (WoW took 6 years from concept to launch in November 2005). The Multiverse idea is that if you get a lot of the technology that's the same for every MMORPG out of the way, you could shave that time down to 2 or 3 years from concept to launch. So if their software was completely done and ready to go today (from what I've seen and read, it isn't), and they had selected a professional MMORPG team with past experience (again, from what I've heard -- and from their utter lack of an announcement -- they haven't), they might be able to get a Firefly MMOG out 2 years from today. But that would be April 2009, not 2008. And every day that goes by without a developer is another day the launch gets pushed back.
So yeah, I'm still hopeful that someday we'll each be able to go to a virtual junk yard and find that broken down ship that speaks to us, find a genius mechanic and a talented pilot, and just sail off into the black. But the silence from Multiverse has really started to worry me. Once they announce a (professional, experienced) developer, I'll start to get excited.
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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