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eGenesis, the developers of the community-oriented MMORPG A Tale in the
Desert, sent in the following press release:

Orson Scott Card, author of the Tales of Alvin Maker series and Andrew
Tepper of eGenesis Games (A Tale In The Desert designers) have entered
into an agreement today to produce a MMO game based on Card's series.

The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series about a alternate version of
America at the turn of the 19th century. In this version, folk magic
such as faith healing, hexes, and second sight not only work, but are
common place. The book is a robust blend of folktale, history, parable
and seemingly personal testimony, promising a multi-layered
community-building game of intrigue and magic without the use of
combat.

The initial plans include things that are happening in Alvin's world,
but which will never show up in the books along with four different
magic systems, plus the technology track, offering players many ways
to develop their characters. Card, himself will be involved in the
planning of the game, and promises on his web site, "The goal,
however, is to let the players freely develop characters and take part
in a wonderful, magical world."

Andrew Tepper, critically acclaimed designer of A Tale in the Desert,
will be working closely with Orson Scott Card. "My primary goal is to
stay true to the world that Orson Scott Card has created" said Tepper,
when asked about his plans for the project.

The eGenesis designers will be creating many interesting visuals and
challenges for the game. Fans of Alvin Maker will be able to check on
the progress of the game design by going to the official site:
http://www.hatrack.com/.

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Liam Slider wrote:

> [url]http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.php?identiferID=7217&action=flatview[/ur
l]
>
> eGenesis, the developers of the community-oriented MMORPG A Tale in the
> Desert, sent in the following press release:
>
>     Orson Scott Card, author of the Tales of Alvin Maker series and Andrew
>     Tepper of eGenesis Games (A Tale In The Desert designers) have entered
>     into an agreement today to produce a MMO game based on Card's series.

Interesting. Scott Card is certainly into a lot of stuff these days.
Aside from being a rather prolific writer, he also has dabbled in
script-writing, made a short film or two, and does film and music
reviews for his hometown newspaper in Greenville, NC.

All that, plus he's a "swell guy."

However...

What has this got to do with Linux advocacy? I suspect this "game" will
be non-platform-specific.

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:06:58 +0000, A Nengineer wrote:

> What has this got to do with Linux advocacy? I suspect this "game" will
> be non-platform-specific.

Yes, it will be cross platform, as many games are these days...but it
*will* run on Linux. This is a part of my "posting news about Linux games
as part of Linux Advocacy." Overall, it's advocacy, for various reasons.

1) Posting about Linux gaming helps dispell the "there are no Linux games"
Myth.

2) Posting Linux game news allows other advocates to keep up to date about
what games are avaliable for Linux...which is useful information to pass
on when they are *being* advocates. Hence, it's useful information *to*
advocates.

3) Posting about Linux games seems to get the Widiots' tits in
tizzys...which is a good enough reason right there, the fact that it *is*
OT makes it very sweet indeed.


And there are other reasons, but I'm tired of listing them and frankly,
these are good enough.

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On 2005-01-14, A Nengineer <awful@tragedy.com> wrote:
> Liam Slider wrote:
> 
>
> Interesting. Scott Card is certainly into a lot of stuff these days.
> Aside from being a rather prolific writer, he also has dabbled in
> script-writing, made a short film or two, and does film and music
> reviews for his hometown newspaper in Greenville, NC.
>
> All that, plus he's a "swell guy."
>
> However...
>
> What has this got to do with Linux advocacy? I suspect this "game" will
> be non-platform-specific.

Card is one of my favorite authors.  I think I've read almost all of his boo
ks
(well, the sci-fi and fantasy novels at least) .  The Alvin Maker series is 
really
good...  I think it would make a great game.  Now, if they would just turn
"Enders Game" into a movie - I would be in heaven....

--
Tom Shelton

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