MMO based on Disneyland
UPDATED: Disney is working on a massively multiplayer game based on Disneyland. Oh please oh please oh please let this rock like the Pirates of the Caribbean movie and not blow diseased animals like the Haunted Mansion movie!Disney also is working on something called Virtual Magic Kingdom, an online version of California's Disneyland built on the same technology as multiplayer online games.Link (via Ambiguous)Rasulo didn't say when the cyberpark would open, but he promised it would be "almost as magical as visiting one of our parks in person."
Update: A Disney insider writes, "Virtual Kingdom is a proposed MMORPG that Disney might launch. I've seen the storyboards and heard the pitch. Think Kingdom Hearts as an MMORPG, not Disneyland, visiting the various 'worlds' of Disney. Possible innovations include visiting physical locations (theme parks) and watching TV or listening to radio for special codes that unlock perks inside the game. Yes, they know Persistent World games are hard. Yes, they know grief players and powergamers will have to be controlled. No, it's nowhere close to being released or even in alpha code."
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