A Piggy named
Jun. 29th, 2011 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snarpI've been wasting a lot of time playing the beta of this browser MMO called Glitch. It's basically an MMO platformer with resource-gathering and crafting, but the art's very good and the dialog's funny.
They have apparently used some of their seed money to hire actual writers, a move which certain better-funded, orc-related MMOs might do well to imitate. I can't tell at this point if there'll ever be anything resembling a plot. There's some world-building in place that's so far pretty thin, but it's still embarrassingly more interesting than that of several fantasy novels I've read recently, given the number of fart jokes they come out with.
There are also a lot of pop culture references. Here's an out-of-context screenshot demonstrating:
If I'd chosen "feed," I could have given him three carrots, and he would have pooped out a packet of carrot seeds for me. I could also have "captured" him, which would have involved tying him up, gagging him, and dumping him in the yard under my treehouse to live with my four other pet pigs.
Both of these options would have made me feel slightly uncomfortable.
(Okay, the context is that the pigs have names randomly-selected from a pool. I keep running into pigs named Lord Blackwood, which we may safely assume to be a dual reference to the ham and this other ham.)
They have apparently used some of their seed money to hire actual writers, a move which certain better-funded, orc-related MMOs might do well to imitate. I can't tell at this point if there'll ever be anything resembling a plot. There's some world-building in place that's so far pretty thin, but it's still embarrassingly more interesting than that of several fantasy novels I've read recently, given the number of fart jokes they come out with.
There are also a lot of pop culture references. Here's an out-of-context screenshot demonstrating:
If I'd chosen "feed," I could have given him three carrots, and he would have pooped out a packet of carrot seeds for me. I could also have "captured" him, which would have involved tying him up, gagging him, and dumping him in the yard under my treehouse to live with my four other pet pigs.
Both of these options would have made me feel slightly uncomfortable.
(Okay, the context is that the pigs have names randomly-selected from a pool. I keep running into pigs named Lord Blackwood, which we may safely assume to be a dual reference to the ham and this other ham.)
