Get in Touch with Your Inner English Major with this Jane Austen MMO

[Guest]

This Jane Austen MMO is not your run-of-the-mill game.

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[COLGeek]

Who is the targeted audience for this game? I would imagine that population is rather tiny. Now, adding a SDK for users to make mods to turn into a FPS could spice this up a bit...Just a suggestion.

 

[Shankovich]

What?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Who is the targeted audience for this game? I would imagine that population is rather tiny. Now, adding a SDK for users to make mods to turn into a FPS could spice this up a bit...Just a suggestion.

Oh yeah this has zombie shooter written all over it. Why not? They did an Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter movie! It could even be good with Victorian weapons. :lol:

 

[rolandzhang3]

Wut.

 

[tobalaz]

Don't we have it already?
I think its called Facebook.

 

[de5_Roy]

have the characters from gta v sit in on a book-reading session. odd crossovers like that will boost it's public visibility.

 

[amdfangirl]

And yet they refuse to fund my killer traffic cone apocalypse survival game on kickstarter.

 

[vinnywong]

So is it like a Downton Abby MMO?

 

[NuclearShadow]

I'm tempted to give to it just for its originality and while I don't oppose violence in video games it is nice to see a non-violent game that is still aimed at a older audience.

 

[tburns1]

Make it steampunk too.

 

[smeezekitty]

I'm tempted to give to it just for its originality and while I don't oppose violence in video games it is nice to see a non-violent game that is still aimed at a older audience.

I agree its nice to see a non-violent game. I don't play FPSs except for vintage ones like Doom.
But this is kind of weird - not sure what the target of it is.

 

[cats_Paw]

No no, Facebook is the narcisist corner, this would be the manipulator heaven.

 

[COLGeek]

Jane Austen + Steampunk + Zombies + Traffic Cones (as weapons or power up nodes?), now we are getting somewhere.

 

[stevejnb]

Who is the targeted audience for this game? I would imagine that population is rather tiny. Now, adding a SDK for users to make mods to turn into a FPS could spice this up a bit...Just a suggestion.

Eh, you'd be surprised. Millions upon millions of people around the world like Jane Austen - including a good number of young people - and something tells me that they don't like gunning down demons with a machine gun. There are countless usual-genre and violent games out there, but this one is going to be unique, to say the least. I'd be shocked if this didn't have a mid-sized audience interested in it if it's actually well done, and the gaming industry *really* needs more originality like this rather than more knuckleheads pumping out FPS's ad nauseam.

I have no interest in this game, but... If you want some FPS/RTS/kill aliens/demons/Nazis/terrorist game or whatever, play one of the gazillion of them already on the market and leave this one alone.

 

[Pherule]

This 'mmo' is going to flop spectacularly.

 

[MannyBones]

So is it like a Downton Abby MMO?

About a hundred years earlier. We're talking Napoleonic Wars, not WWII.

 

[COLGeek]

Let there be no doubt that Jane Austen represents truly classic literature and boasts an incredible following. Those fans are likely the targeted audience, but is that group a gaming audience? And will enough of them subscribe to make this effort profitable?

Time will tell. I wish the developers luck (and a sense of humor in the vein that most of the comments offered here provided).