Wonderland

Love: is the procedurally-generated MMO

A one-man-made mini-MMO, including a procedurally generated universe...? Rossignol's dug up a gem here:

The game itself, dubbed Love (as in For The Love Of Game Development), is an exploration-based moderately-multiplayer FPS with astounding impressionistic visuals and a procedurally generated universe. Since Steenberg is a one man show, he’s relying on clever maths to build the world for him and then clever gamers to come in and help him figure out where to take it, and what to do with it.

Bloody hell this sounds interesting. Rossignol continues:

So far he’s already populated it with weird animals and wondrous, gaseous visuals, and he intends to build the world into a kind of communal adventure, where gamers work together to furnish a central village, defend it from enemy attack, and explore the surround world and its many dungeons.

He's giddy with the potential - exciting stuff! - and the game's creator claims he only needs 200 subscribers to make the game worth running. Imagine that. Obviously he'll get a whole ton more.. but mini-MMOs like private clubs? That's a strange thought too.

Hello Kitty Online: not in 3D

Huh, I could have sworn Hello Kitty Online was going to be in threedee. Wishful dream? I'm really disappointed!

It's another isometric-view walkabout.

I don't really know what I was expecting - after all in a HK MMO, presumably everyone would want to be a version of Kitty/Batz/etc, which could be somewhat troublesome. Maybe kids really really like isometric.

I want a Hello Kitty FPS.

Grass-collecting in Wonderland Online

Wonderland Online - the extremely weird-concept, terrible-translation MMO in development - has some game detail up, as featured over at MMORPG.com. Again today, the theme is gardening, although unlike Lila Dreams, Wonderland manages to make the gardening idea sound incredibly boring.

There are 3 major resources in Wonderland. They are ore, log and grass. To obtain them players need the corresponding collection skills such as mining, lumbering and collection. There will be a large demand for various grasses, such as Asakusa, Vine, and Fruit which can be obtained through collection as players make their way through the game. There are also some useless weeds, so players should spend some time improving their collection level so as to improve the efficiency of grass collection. When the collection level is high, it's convenient for players to either sell or use them.

To learn the grass-collection skill, players need to obtain five barleys from the monsters at the chicken farm of North Island and hand them to the farmer at the farm in the west of South Island.

zzZZ -wha? Grass-collecting? Sign me up! .. or not.

Oh well. At least they have screenies with excellent titles, like this one: "Release all of the tires with hot spring." Now that shows promise.